They could not understand this, and a cold fear fell upon all the three of them.

他们不明白这是怎么回事，他们三个人都感到一阵寒心的恐惧。

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This originally started in the 19th Century as an attempt to make sure that the police could not understand what they were saying if they were doing something criminal, though it is not the same now!

这一现象起源于19世纪，当时人们用这一方法确保他们之间讨论欲实施犯罪时不被警察听懂，但是现在可不是为了这个。

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I hated his actions, but I could not hate the person. Now I understand that, for me, this was an act of forgiveness process kept alive by continuous choice.

现在我明白了，对于我来说，这是宽恕行为过程的选择。

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They do not understand how this could be happening and they are cursing themselves for having listened to people on television or talk radio.

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His bosses failed to understand that this activity alone could not have generated such apparently large profits for the bank.

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