Straus notes that being spanked or hit is associated with fright and stress; kids who experience that kind of trauma have a harder time focusing and learning.

斯特劳斯发现，体罚会使小孩受惊吓、有压力。 有过这种创伤的小孩很难集中注意力和有效地学习。

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Some in the markets have taken fright, too: the country's credit-default swaps imply a 50% chance of default by 2015.

国内某些市场已受到惊吓。这个国家的信用违约掉期表明到了2015年委内瑞拉拖欠债务的可能性起码有50%。

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Joe Kowan: I have stage fright. I've always had stage fright, and not just a little bit, it's a big bit.

我有怯场的毛病（演讲者：乔·科文） 我一直都怯场，不是一点点，是非常严重的怯场。

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Are you really going to do it, or would you have collaboration fright, a close relative to stage fright?

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But in these tight economic times, how can you have a great Halloween without causing fright night to you budget?

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And it worked - American politicians who seemed to have assumed that this was a somewhat obscure and uncontroversial issue took fright, and the new laws have been put on the back-burner.

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