Despite my own fear of heights, I felt more grounded than I have on other vertical tourist attractions such as the Eiffel Tower or the Empire State Building. Perhaps the dirty Windows helped.

虽然我本人有些恐高，但我觉得倒是比站在艾菲尔铁塔或帝国大厦等高耸的景观建筑上感觉踏实，或许是灰蒙蒙的窗户帮了我。

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I had grown accustomed to being perpetually dirty, overcame my fear of spiders, and learned to love Ramen even more (being a college student, I thought this wasn't possible).

我已经习惯了总是全身弄得脏兮兮的，克服了对蜘蛛的恐惧，也学会更爱ramen(身为一个学院学生，原本我以为这不可能)。

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Nekhludoff went into his room, undressed, and lay down, not without fear of the bugs, whose presence the dirty, torn wall-papers made him suspect.

聂赫留朵夫回到屋里，脱下衣服，躺到床上，但担心有臭虫，因为肮脏的破墙纸很可能藏着臭虫。

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Some people even fear that flows of dirty money may have become so big that they can distort macroeconomic policy.

ECONOMIST: Cleaning up dirty money

He saw things he recognized but his brain, befuddled with chemicals released by fear, couldn't locate the words to describe them: the twin stacks spewing plumes of dirty white smoke, the abandoned custom's station with a faded red star painted above the door, the line of white-washed bee hives on a slope near a copse of stunted apple trees.

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