The victims all seemed afraid to say the facts, for fear it might start trouble.

受害人似乎都不敢说出真相，怕引起麻烦。

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They seemed afraid to say what was in their mind; for fear that it might start trouble.

他们似乎惧怕说出心里的主意，免得招来麻烦。

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It is necessary to use information technology to solve arising from the thorny Problems, And not start trouble.

因此必须用技术来解决信息所引起的棘手问题，而不是乱上添乱。

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Then we start paying a dividend and then if we ever have to cut it, we're in big trouble.

然后我们开始分红,如果暂停分红,大麻烦就来了

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If they start demanding then we're in trouble.

如果他们开始要求，那么我们将会陷入困境。

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So the Romans, for example, outlawed volunteer fire departments, in local places, because they were afraid that volunteer fire departments could be a place where locals, especially maybe lower-class locals, could get together and then start gossiping about what they could do to cause trouble for the Romans.

所以罗马人会，比如，会驱逐当地志愿消防部门，因为他们担心志愿消防部门,会成为当地人，尤其是下层阶级集会的场所，在那谋划如何,给罗马人制造麻烦。

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"A dog who is instigating by being rude to your dog is looking to start trouble, " Mr. Oguss says.

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Something as simple as a greeting card can even start trouble, Williams says.

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Its strategists were also intensely aware that some enemies to US interests might take a crisis in one part of the world that sucked in the US military to be a green light to start trouble in another.

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