You might not know have any symptoms, you might just have a latent source of the microorganism somewhere in your body.

你可能没有任何症状,微生物可能只是在体内某处,暗中不断滋生

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But dreams always had a latent content as well, meaning the hidden implication of the dream.

但梦还具有潜性梦境，潜性梦境是指梦所隐藏的含义。

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