I hope one day I can overcome my fear of water and learn to swim.

我希望有一天，我能克服对水的恐惧并学会游泳。

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It stood there on buckled wheels, wheezing and gasping with exhaustion from having to climb up the gentle slope to the camp, and I consigned myself and my loads to it with some fear.

它停在弯曲的轮子上，由于要爬上那平缓的斜坡到营地，累得喘不过气来，我带着几分担心，把自己和行李托付给它。

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A few feverish weeks in bed ended in specialist appointment, where I was diagnosed with Lupus and rushed into hospital for fear that it may have attacked my internal organs.

我在床上发烧了几个星期，最后被专科医生诊断为红斑狼疮。由于担心红斑狼疮会损害内脏，我被紧急送往医院。

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Later, as I grew worse, I could see the bags in the daytime with my eyes open and I was gripped by the fear that they were going to fall and drench me with some horrible liquid.

从那以后我的病情越来越糟，白天醒来就看到那些袋子,我担心它们坠下来,可怕的液体流到我头上。

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Without knowing the history of the Cenotes in Mexico, I was determined to dive in a cave and conquer my fear of what I could not see.

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On the ninth day, she came home, and I began to realize that my feelings of fear and anxiety had changed in a way that no prenatal screening could ever have predicted.

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And I realized that my fear came also from his use of the past tense.

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