奇怪的是，虽然恐惧是一种单一原始的情绪，我们却有那么多形容它的字眼。

It is strange that we have so many words for fear, when fear is such a unitary, primal feeling.

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最新一项全面解析父母情感状况的研究表明，用“全家人的开心果”来形容儿孙或许不是最贴切的。 “为人父母的人，幸福感多停留在一个较低的层次上。

The most recent comprehensive study on the emotional state of those with kids shows us that the term "bundle of joy" may not be the most accurate way to describe our offspring.

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鲁珀特，默多克——我们这个时代的比弗布鲁克一曾把分类广告形容成报业的金河，但是，正如去年他所说的，“有时河流会干涸”。

Rupert Murdoch, the Beaverbrook of our age, once described them as the industry's rivers of gold-but, as he said last year, "Sometimes rivers dry up."

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Homer and Virgil and, well after them, Dante and innumerable others have all applied the simile of the leaves or some version of it to describe the numberless-ness of the dead.

荷马，维吉尔，在他们之后还有但丁,以及无法计数的曾经用过这个落叶比喻,或者变种版本来形容死者的数量极多的其他诗人们。

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