I had a sensation of falling, as if in a dream.

我有一种坠落的感觉，像在梦中似的。

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He arrived at that very moment, as if in answer to her prayer.

他就在那一刻到了，好像是她的祈祷应验了。

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As if in answer to his request, the air was rent by the most tremendous crash he had ever heard.

仿佛是应了他的请求，空气中响起了他所听到过的最大的轰隆声。

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But a second round of balloting might not feasible if inclement weather sets in.

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But let me use the term "event" anyway, employing it with caution and as if in quotation marks.

但是无论如何我还是使用，“事件“，这个词，小心谨慎地使用它，带引号地使用。

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Negative 1 plus 0 should add up to negative 1, if in fact, we're correct for the c n anion.

负一加上零应该等于负一，如果是这样，我们对于氰离子的结果就是正确的。

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He turned the croc over unceremoniously and it lay transfixed, as if in a trance.

BBC: Tagging crocodiles in Belize

And if in doubt, should prudent policymakers err towards doing too much or too little?

ECONOMIST: The G20 and the world economy

Bicycles are propped against walls on cobbled streets as if in a Francis Bacon painting.

BBC: A tale of two Berlins