In the words of one trauma survivor, "I was terrified to go anywhere on my own.".. I felt so defenseless and afraid that I just stopped doing anything.

用在创伤里生还下来的人的话说：我不敢独自一人到任何地方…我感觉自己没有任何防御之力，我是如此恐慌，所以停下来不去做任何事情。

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When I got to EF, I stopped translating words and phrases from Chinese to English and started to just think in English. That was a huge step.

通过在EF的学习，我从简单的逐字逐句的中翻英转变成开始用英语的语法角度思考问题，那对我来说是一个巨大的进步。

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Melly wondered, but she didn't reply. Sometimes words only made things worse. She smoothed the chestnut hair and let Nora cry until the tears finally stopped.

梅利诧异了，没有回答。有时有的话只会把事情搞得更糟。她理了理那栗色的头发，让劳拉放声地哭，直到停止流泪。

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The little girl whose life was filled with a sadness she never put into words, and who stopped going to school because the children laughed at the way she walked, was suddenly the head of the family.

BBC: Marwa's story: 10 years since the bomb fell

Proof of the gravity of the hiatus is that EDF has recently cut its dedicated nuclear workforce by 20% or 150 people, and stopped recruiting, because - in the words of an EDF source - the company felt it could no longer "burn money" (no jokes please about how that might be cheaper than more conventional fuel).

BBC: Why Treasury may reject nuclear option

The last few words hit John like a truck, his heart stopped.

NPR: 'Arson' by Nick Lysohir