Until the moment everyone started telling me to mellow out, I had never been tense for a single moment in my life.

直到每个人开始叫我放松那一刻，我一生中还从来没有一刻紧张过。

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But it's also clear that public life as a single, working, divorced mom —still a pariah status in South Korea —was one role she had a lot of trouble with.

但是这一切也清晰的表明在韩国，一个单身、工作、离婚的女子是处于何种卑微的社会地位-她注定要面对许多麻烦。

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A model that had a single common ancestor and allowed for some gene - swapping among species was even better than a simple tree of life.

一个拥有单一共同祖先且允许物种间部分基因彼此交换的模式甚至更优于树形生命模式。

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It felt for one long, loud bit of time like fear and sadness and life had been synthesized into a single massive group experience.

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"In Japan, women take the initiative to get married -- and the trend for them had been to focus on their career and enjoy single life, " explained Ritsuko Matsui, a prominent psychiatrist who counseled survivors of Japan's last devastating quake around Kobe in 1995, which left more than 6, 000 people dead.

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When asked in later life what her greatest single achievement was, she replied that it had come in the late 1930s, when she was 12 and raised money to help save a 17-year-old Austrian Jewish girl from the Nazis by bringing her to Britain.

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