The little apprentice in particular lived in terror of the boss, who had borne down on him so often and so hard that there was little left.

小学徒对老板尤其怕得要死，老板经常整他而且整得很重，简直把他整瘪了。

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The little apprentice in particular lived in terror of the boss, who had borne down on him so often and so hard that there was little left.

小学徒对老板尤其怕得要死，老板经常整他而且整得很惨，简直把他整瘪了。

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Instead of being borne aloft by a balloon, it is dropped from a high-altitude and floats down on a parachute.

它(下投式探空仪)不是由气球载入高空，而是由高空投掷下来并靠降落伞由空中飘浮下降。

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The Global Financial Crisis took a toll at the higher end of the market worldwide and has kept margins tight all the way down, even as Australia has had to confront its own drought-borne limits on supply.

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