Teams go to extremes on communicating; they are either too shy or are overly eager in their communication for fear of either doing too much or too little.

沟通时团队会走向极端；他们担心做的太多或太少，在沟通过程中因太内向而说得太少，或者因太外向而说得太多。

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Since the Yellowstone earthquake some people have said that they would never go to that area for fear of being caught in a landslide such as occurred after the earthquake.

自从黄石地震后，一些人说，他们因为害怕被发生在地震后的大滑坡伤害，再也不会去那个地方。

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I recall becoming so aware of my sin that I would lay in bed and shudder—afraid to go to sleep at night for fear that I'd die and spend eternity in hell.

我想起那时候我非常清楚认识到自己的罪，我躺在床上，浑身颤抖——因为害怕将来死的时候会下地狱而难以入睡。

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Even those who still have a home to go to are afraid to sleep in it, for fear of violent aftershocks.

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Much of Indonesia's military and political establishment bitterly opposed allowing the half-island to go its own way in the late 1990s, for fear of a precedent that might unravel one of the world's most artificial countries.

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Milosevic may also be calculating that Washington won't go beyond hot air for fear that he might stir things up in Bosnia, where several thousand of our troops are located.

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