They take the fear out of what are huge behemoths, but it means we turn them into cuddly toys, which they are not.

它们消除了巨大的庞然大物带来的恐惧，但这意味着我们将它们变成了可爱的玩具，这并非是它们本来的样子。

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We should fear the fragmentation of reading.

我们应该担心阅读的碎片化。

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We spoke quietly for fear of waking the guards.

我们悄悄说话，以免惊醒警卫。

《牛津词典》

So,first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-- nameless,unreasoning,unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

VOA: special.2011.03.17

It's about getting rid of limitations, of barriers, whether it's the fear of failure, something that we didn't have as kids.

也就是摆脱限制，阻碍，或者对失败的恐惧，这些东西在并不是与生俱来的。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

It's not about marriage, and marriage will still seem quite a ways off, I fear, when you read Lycidas, but we will be marking the transition to the poetry of marriage soon enough.

那不是讲婚姻的，我担心当你们读《利西亚斯》的时候，婚姻仍是一个走出的方法，但是我们,将很快标记诗篇中关于婚姻的转变。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It got to the point where we were unnerved to actually hit left or right for fear of skipping the song we were listening to.

ENGADGET: Zune review

To force Mr Milosevic to relent we should consider using the fear of international recognition of Kosovo, which may be the only significant lever we have left.

ECONOMIST: Crisis in Kosovo

Simply repeating the claims of a few in the industry, who fear that we are moving away from the disastrous era of light-touch regulation, falls short of the independent analysis that your readers have a right to expect.

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