Hence the rare death by mad-cow disease seems scarier than the much more common risk of death from germs in our own kitchens.

因此，尽管因疯牛病死的人很少，但人们它的恐惧远甚于更常见的在自家厨房里感染细菌而死亡的危险。

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Prions cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (or “mad cow disease” in cattle) by rearranging the structure of normal proteins in their own image.

朊病毒通过按照自身结构重建正常蛋白结构来引发雅克氏病（或在牛身上引发“疯牛病”）。

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Your own tardiness. - Get up 30 minutes earlier so you don't have to rush around like a mad man.

拖拉-提前30分钟起床所以你就不用像个疯子似的急着上班。

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And Geraldine Chaplin manages the feat of playing her own mad grandmother, imbuing Hannah Chaplin with a wrenching combination of wounded maternalism and addled propriety.

NEWYORKER: Chaplin

Bubbles follow their own mad logic.

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It cited Penn State's "excessive focus on athletics" and showed how under Paterno, a football-mad university created its own insular, reality distortion field, one in which to "avoid the consequences of bad publicity, " facts were brushed away and concealed.

WSJ: What Penn State Should Tear Down