'I guess I had a fear of the unknown,' he says.

他说，我想当时自己对未知事物心存恐惧。

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I was sitting on the floor shivering with fear because a bullet had been fired through a window.

我坐在地板上吓得浑身发抖，因为有一颗子弹射穿窗户打了进来。

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After a few more climbs, once to the top of the domed reservoir, my fear seemed to evaporate in the warm midnight air—I had simply been out of practice.

爬过几次后，只要爬到半球形蓄水池顶，我的恐惧似乎就在午夜温暖的空气中蒸发了——原来，只是我久不练习而已。

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After six years in nursing, unsatisfied with the career choice I had made, I woke up to a different kind of fear: The fear of becoming like the other no-risk nurses tired, burned out and old before their time.

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We threw the ball back and forth during our discussion despite my fear of baseballs (I had my nose smashed by a baseball in college).

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On the ninth day, she came home, and I began to realize that my feelings of fear and anxiety had changed in a way that no prenatal screening could ever have predicted.

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