Before long, financial institutions were paralyzed by fear.

不久金融机构因为恐慌而瘫痪。

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But the truth is that many of us, myself included, are paralyzed by fear.

但事实是，我们中的很多人，包括我自己，都在畏惧中止步不前了。

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Thereafter, any time a friendly neighborhood dog trotted by, we froze in our tracks, like statues, paralyzed by fear.

那之后，只要有邻居家友好的狗狗小跑路过我们，我们立即像雕塑一样站在原地一动不动，像被恐惧麻痹了似的。

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And the disunited Canaanites put up little or no resistance: they're paralyzed by a fear that is sent by God.

而被分解的迦南人几乎完全丧失抵抗力：,他们因为上帝送来的恐惧全面瘫痪。

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"Sometimes, we get almost paralyzed by our fear or anxiety that it's difficult to figure out on our own what our first steps need to be, " said Bufka, a psychologist in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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