We then learn that we may be able to say a swear word in one social context, but not another.
所表达的愤怒程度更高”我们之后还明白了，在有些社会场合中我们能说个脏话，但是在另一些场合则不能。
Why do people swear? Why does using a swear word make us feel better? How do we choose which word we use?
人为什么要说粗话？为什么用上粗口会让我们感觉更好？我们怎么选要用什么词？
Some 67 participants were asked to keep their hands submerged in ice cold water as along as possible, either repeating a swear word or a neutral word over and over.
研究中，67名调研者被要求在尽可能长的时间里将自己的手浸泡在冰水中，有些人要求一直重复骂人的话而另一部分人则要求重复平实的话语。
Taboo words can be mildly offensive to extremely offensive, and people will often use a more mild euphemism to replace a swear word when in mixed (or unknown) company.
禁忌词汇的程度可能从轻度污蔑到严重污蔑，人们一般常会在复杂(或者不明)的场合下，用温和些的婉转语来代替粗口。
Researchers at Keele University's School of Psychology recruited 71 undergraduates who were asked to carry out a cold-water challenge while either repeating a swear word or a non-swear word.
英国基尔大学心理学院的研究人员们招募了71名大学生作为实验对象。 大学生们在被要求进行一项冷水挑战的同时，一边反复说脏话或不说。
You'd swear he was a cardboard cut-out except that he'd moved his rifle.
你会断言他是个用纸板裁出的假人，除非他动了他的来福枪。
I could swear I remembered seeing rabbits in the snow a couple of times, I means hares, that were brown.
但是我能发誓我记得有几次在雪地里看到过兔子，我是说野兔，棕色的那种。
Tyndareus readily agreed and Odysseus proposed that, before the decision was made, all the suitors should swear a most solemn oath to defend the chosen husband against whoever should quarrel with him.
廷达瑞俄斯欣然应允。奥德修斯要求所有的追求者在国王作出决定之前庄严地发誓：无论谁获选，其他人都要捍卫中选者，反对任何与之争吵的人。
Alright, we swear, this is the last time we'll mention that you've been eating insects for a good majority of your life.
好吧，我们发誓，这是我们最后一次提到，你的一生大多数时候都有吃过昆虫。
And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell.
我主人叫我起誓说，你不要为我儿子娶迦南地的女子为妻。
And my master made me swear an oath, and said, 'You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live.
我主人叫我起誓说：你不要为我儿子娶迦南地的女子为妻。
This keeps happening until eventually (still never having spoken to a tech-spert) you swear at the operator and they hang up.
直到最后你忍无可忍地咒骂操作人员使他们愤愤地挂断电话。然而，到此时你都还未与技术人员通上电话。
4he who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false.
就是手洁心清，不向虚妄，起誓不怀诡诈的人。
(I swear it's a mere coincidence that I wrote about the commercialization of female pleasure just yesterday.) Moynihan writes.
我发誓这和我昨天刚刚写的女性享乐的商业推广是单纯的巧合。
Well, I know one reason… I had a college professor who made us swear wehad “Read every single word” of our collateral reading.
唔，我知道其中一个原因… 我的一位大学教授曾让我们发誓说我们读过了补充阅读里的“每个单词”。
The purists swear by Alphonsos, while those who like a bit more flesh and some juice go for the Malgova.
纯正主义者通过阿方索宣誓，而那些喜欢多一点肉和一些果汁的人们应该去摩尔多瓦。
No, Monsieur, I swear to you, by my hopes of salvation, I will tell you all, for the abbe Busoni himself only knew a part of my secret; but, I pray you, go away from that plane-tree.
不，大人，我以我灵魂得救的名义向您发誓，我一定把一切实情都讲给您听，因为我的秘密布沙尼神甫也只知道一部分，但我求您先离开那株法国梧桐。
After getting burned once or twice for failing to cover some base, they develop a fool-proof routine to prevent that from happening again, then swear their eternal allegiance to it.
在某些地方上闯过一两次祸之后，他们就会制定出一个易于执行的例程去防止类似事件再次发生，然后发誓会永远拥护它。
And although they swear to each other that they will stay in touch, the mere possibility that this is a final farewell is almost too much to bear.
尽管他们发誓要保持联系，唯一的可能却是这就是最后一声互道珍重。这大概是生命无法承受之重。
I swear a chimp could have drawn better than some of the guys in there, but I noticed something about my pictures.
不过，我可以肯定，即便是一个黑猩猩都会比我们班上的一些家伙要画得好。
My girlfriend and I were talking about a sailboat, I swear to God, but I can get to Block Island in four hours - sailing, it would take all day.
我女友和我想过要买帆船，向天发誓这是真的，但是驾驶到布洛克岛要四个小时——而帆船则要一整天。
"I've had ladies draw blood and swear they didn't feel a thing," he said.
“我曾经有一些女顾客，血已经流出来了，却发誓她们之前没有感觉到任何东西。”他说。
"I swear I'm not the kind of guy who hears voices," Srivastava says. "But that night, as I passed the station, I heard a little voice coming from the back of my head."
“我发誓我不是那种会幻听的人，”斯利瓦斯塔瓦说，“但那天晚上，当我经过加油站的时候，我听到从脑后传来的很小的声音。”
When he brought it back I swear it had grown at least a foot in all directions from the last time I saw it (not important, it just intrigued me).
当他把通灵板拿来的时候，我确信它比我刚才看到时面积至少大了一平方英尺(不过没什么大不了的，这倒正好激发我的兴趣)。
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