What I mean by this is it's possible, of course, to be afraid of a person, but unlike an emotion like gratitude, it's not intrinsically social.

我这么说是想表明这是可能得，当然，人害怕时，不像感激时，不是社会固有的。

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Mary was not as afraid of Colin as other people were and she was not a self-sacrificing person.

玛丽不像其他人那样害怕科林，她也不会让步。

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A child might be less afraid to make a mistake in front of a robot than in front of a real person.

比起在真人面前，孩子在机器人面前更不怕犯错。

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What I mean by this is it's possible, of course, to be afraid of a person, but unlike an emotion like gratitude, it's not intrinsically social.

我这么说是想表明这是可能得，当然，人害怕时，不像感激时，不是社会固有的。

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So the number four represents something a person is afraid of because it symbolically connects with whatever they fear most in their life.

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"The disappearance of her body, the marked hatred from her enemies, who evidently speak of a person who continues worrying them, someone they are still afraid of even after her death, " he said.

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So he had an opportunity to know these girls when they were taken - now they're women - and maybe either gain their trust or be a person that at least they weren't afraid of getting in a car with.

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