The optimism that helped sustain Iraqis during the first few years of the war has dissolved into widespread fear, anger and distress, a survey found.

据一项民意调查显示，伊战前几年支撑着伊拉克人艰难度日的乐观态度如今已经转变成了普遍的恐惧、愤怒和痛苦。

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In some ways, the first telephoto images, awesome though they were as spectacle, disguise the human toll of pain and distress.

第一批远距离拍摄的相片虽然场景令人震撼，但在某种程度上却掩盖了人员伤亡的惨状。

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We can decode their signals of distress or read a million messages into their first smile.

我们能够明白他们表现出的什么样的信号表示不高兴，能够从他们的第一次微笑读出无数信息。

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But cutting interest rates as a first response to any distress in the financial sector has helped to blow bubbles in asset prices dotcom stocks in the late 1990s, house prices in the 2000s.

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But the question is, why are those companies in distress in the first place?

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This failure is often the first visible sign of financial distress in a market where SEC disclosure rules are not enforced.

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