It's a terrible thing when nobody wants to dance with you.

没有人想和你跳舞是件糟糕的事。

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Hate, for me, it's a terrible thing.

憎恨是件可怕的事情。

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It's a terrible thing.

真是件可怕的事情。

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If we look down at it and say, "It's a terrible thing that " I just derive benefits from helping other people", then that part of our nature will depreciate over time.

如果我鄙视它并说，“很可怕,我从帮助他人身上获得利益，那么本性中那一部分将随时间贬值。

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It's also a terrible thing to do when we are trying to build, in this country, industries that will be vital to economic growth and energy independence in the 21st century.

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"It's just not a good way to do legislation, to exploit some terrible thing that has been done to some child, " he says of statutes like the AMBER Alert Act, which refers both to an abducted child and America's Missing-Broadcast Emergency Response (and is itself part of the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today, or PROTECT, Act).

WSJ: Congress Finds, in Passing Bills, Names Can Never Hurt You

Now I hear and you hear that this is, well, kind of dismissed: This is a terrible thing that happens every once, every hundred years--or it's a Black Swan or Fat Tail.

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