It's a bit like going to the dentist; it's never as bad as you fear.

这有点像去看牙医，它决不像你所担心的那样糟糕。

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I don't know how bad the injury is, because I have never had one like this before.

我不知道伤势有多重，因为我以前从未受过这样的伤。

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Even in the bad times she never lost her faith.

即使在困难时期，她也从未丧失信仰。

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I like the way she did that. She never said I was dirty or that I smelled bad.

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To go philosophically from life's so bad given the nature of the human condition, life followed by death, that better to never have had any of it than to have just had a taste and a tease and so forth.

在哲学上从生命是如此不好出发,给定人类处境的本质，生后即是死，什么都不要有,比只尝一口然后被戏弄等等要好。

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And without universal accounting standards, perhaps imposed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, we may never know how bad the toxic asset situation is.

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