He didn't tell his mother for almost three years, knowing the grief the news would cause her.

知道母亲得知这个噩耗会悲痛欲绝，他几乎三年都没有告诉她。

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In the realm of research, finding out what you don't know is almost as important as knowing what you do.

在研究领域，找到许多你未曾认知的事物如同了解并熟悉你的研究同样重要。

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I could never tell whether it was because the city, in the failing light, had grown a decibel quieter or because the children had grown louder, knowing that their time there was almost through.

我不知道是因为渐渐暗下来的城市的分贝降了下来还是因为孩子们的声音提高了，知道他们嬉戏的时间所剩不多。

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It involved the designers knowing almost everything about the game's dismal steam-punky setting.

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The insistence on reportage, at the expense of interpretation or even opinion, leaves the reader knowing almost too much of the how and where and when, but not quite enough of the why.

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People who drink chili out of Denver Bronco cup-holders and pray to Dustin Pedroia Fatheads suddenly become absorbed in tiny Olympic events like shooting and curling and pole-vaulting, despite knowing almost nothing about shooting and curling and pole-vaulting.

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