Over the years she had tried to block out that part of her life.

多年来她努力想把她生命中的那一段经历从记忆中抹去。

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We block out those things that cause stress and make us anxious.

我们将那些引起压力、使我们焦虑的事情拒之门外。

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Instead, coniferous trees will invade the aspen grove's borders and increasingly block out sunlight needed by the aspens.

相反，针叶树将侵入白杨树林的边界，越来越多地遮挡白杨所需的阳光。

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This is the full-on, block-out-the-sun, Cormac-McCarthy business.

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Frail and doddery for his 75 years, suffering from Parkinson's and other diseases, holed up in humiliation in a bombed-out office block in Palestine's benighted West Bank for the past three-and-half years, occasionally threatened by Israel's leaders with expulsion and even assassination, he is widely considered, in the end, a flop.

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