BACK IN the days of the tyranny of distance, the primal terror of Australians was the fear of abandonment.

在世界还被距离所主宰的时代，澳大利亚人最大的恐惧莫过于遭到抛弃。

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Fear gnaws at you: "I may never make it back to safety." Just as all hope is fading, your frantic eyes see a dim light in the distance.

恐惧侵蚀你心：“我可能死于此地”就在希望褪去之际，你狂乱的眼睛看见一道远方暗光。

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Is that true? Because of distance, so thoughts, for fear, so alienated.

真的是这样吗？因为距离，所以思念，因为害怕，所以疏远。

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Even Chicago's newspapers kept their distance from the speculation for fear that Marshall Field Sr. would pull his advertising dollars.

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And while they're trained to keep an emotional distance, some say the reverberating fear coming through people's voices is starting to tug a little too tightly at their heart strings.

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Though I laughed at the warning sign depicting a stick-figure falling head-first off the cliffs, I made sure to keep a safe distance from the drop-off for fear that the wind might actually propel me over.

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