Just when I was about to ask him for a raise, I got cold feet.

就在准备向他提出加薪的那一刻，我突然胆怯了。

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On the way home, though, it started raining and I got very wet! The next day, I woke up with a bad cold.

但是在回家的路上，开始下雨了，我被淋湿了！第二天，我患着重感冒醒来。

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I don't think I have ever felt so cold by the time we got back to dry land.

当我们回到陆地上的时候，我想我从来没有感到这么冷过。

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Two days later I got a cold call from a producer at Hoff Productions near San Francisco, who do a lot of stuff for Animal Planet, Discovery, the Speed Network and so on.

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As I expected, I got the cold shoulder.

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This was not as easy as I had hoped, fiddling between credit card and phone with freezing cold fingers, but, by the time I got on the intercity to Geneva I had an e-ticket and I proudly showed it to the conductor.

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