Quite often, stage fright arises in a mere anticipation of a performance, often a long time ahead.

很多时候，在活动开始前很长时间，“怯场”情绪会随着对表演活动的期待而强烈起来。

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One day last week, 13 accidents unfolded on the road in a mere two hours, all of them catastrophic, nearly all of them fatal.

上礼拜一天，在不到两个小时内13起交通事故先后发生了，所有事故都十分严重，几乎所有人都死了。

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Having appeared in a mere seven films over the past decade and relocated to Beijing, Cheung is now composing scores for film.

在过去的十年间张曼玉仅在七部影片中露面，并迁居北京，现在的她正在为电影创作音乐。

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"I don't want any of my works to be bought by a collector and be put in a house or in a palace and disappear as mere possessions.

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It's clear that we all do believe in the possibility, indeed, more than a mere possibility, the actuality of meetings that occur without us.

显然我们都相信这种可能，且不仅仅是一种可能，会议确实在我们不在的情况下举行了。

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The book, Michel Foucault, a famous philosopher, got a hold of and wrote a preface for it; in French is, was, Moi, Pierre Riviere, ayant egorge ma mere and mes deux soeurs.

这本书,米歇尔·福柯,著名哲学家,搞到了一本然后写了个前言,法语是,我,皮埃尔·利维埃尔,割开了我母亲和两个妹妹的喉咙

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We must accept that all action must be planned in a mere twilight of uncertainty.

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And then in a mere 12 years people doubled that, breaking a barrier thought to be impossible.

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This year, in a mere also-ran BCS contest, it looked like Texas might come to Pasadena (of California).

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