If we're doing close readings we might go into that for twenty minutes, but we're not.

要是进行仔细的阅读比较,我们可能要花上二十分钟,但我们不这样做

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For some others it might mean being basically restricted to the home, if not all the time, then the only exception being in public, in the company of a close-male relative as chaperon.

在一些别的地方可能意味着,基本上深居简出，即使不是一天到晚，也只有外出是例外，而且必须有一个男性近亲作监护人陪同。

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"There is obviously a lot of anxiety with talking to a past partner about a diagnosis, particularly if you're not close to that person, or if it was a casual partner, or if it was someone that you had a falling out with, " says Jenny McManus, the company's director of operations.

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Another part of me is scared that more people will die, even if they are not close to me.

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Also, even if you're not close to where the eye of the storm reaches land, they could be pretty large, too.

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