Senators and representatives use private elevators, lest they have to queue with their constituents.

参议员和众议员会使用私人电梯，以免他们要和选民一起排队。

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Area 51 staff had to regularly interrupt such tests and hurry prototypes into "hoot-and-scoot sheds", lest they are detected by Soviet spy satellites.

51区的工作人员不得不经常中断这种测试，匆忙地将这些样机送到“紧急藏身处”，以免它们被苏联间谍卫星发现。

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What has happened is that people cannot confess fully to their dreams, as easily and openly as once they could, lest they be thought pushing, acquisitive and vulgar.

现在的情况是，人们不能像以前那样轻易、公开地完全承认自己的梦想，惟恐别人认为他们爱赶时髦、贪得无厌、庸俗不堪。

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Companies are often tempted to appease these groups lest they suffer harmful publicity or hostile regulation.

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Most growers stop at 10 lights lest they attract attention with a steep electricity bill.

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So, for now, no one dares criticise Mr Blair too sharply, lest they too are lynched.

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