When I was young, I couldn't sleep at night, 'cause I thought there was a monster in the closet.

我小的时候晚上常常无法入眠，总觉得衣橱里有怪物在窥视我。

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The word "Nian" was originally the name of a monster that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of the lunar New Year.

“年”是古代一种凶猛的怪兽，每当新年的头天晚上就要窜到人群聚居的地方捕食活人，因此人们谈“年”色变。

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When I was young, I couldn't sleep at night, 'cause I thought there was a monster in the closet.

我小时候晚上无法总睡不着，觉得衣橱里有怪物在窥视我。

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Plenty of blue-and-orange shirts in the Miami crowd roared, and the early indications were that Anthony was on his way to a monster night and the Knicks were on their way to a blowout victory.

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And she wasn't torn from me in a terror of rending steel, stamped out by a sudden monster roaring out of the night.

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They have set fire to a NEW GENRE along with whatever judges-table debris (L.A. Reid's soul, Nicole's week 7 weave) was used as kindling for last night's Smoke Monster haze.

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