Because it was such a momentous occasion, they could not take the chance sounding badly.

在那样一个重大场合，他们不能冒表演失败的风险。

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No high-sounding rhetoric, just want to take action to achieve an attainable aspiration.

没有冠冕堂皇的说辞，只是想以行动，去实现一个可以实现的愿望。

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Will you take the risk of sounding foolish today?

你今天会冒险，令自己在人面前看似愚拙吗？

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True, wine words can be pretty hilarious, mostly unintentionally, but for the record, at least some of the phoniest-sounding--take "road tar" for instance, or "petrol"--turn out to be easily experienced, reproducible results.

FORBES: Faking It

As a sign of how quickly hackles can rise, take the reaction to a sensible-sounding plan by the Clinton administration to speed the approval of military-equipment sales to favoured allies who are prepared to match America's defence-export restrictions.

ECONOMIST: Defence contractors: Arms across the sea | The

Take the oh-so-pleasant-sounding "You Must Be Out of Your Mind, " from Realism, the new album by Merritt's group The Magnetic Fields.

NPR: The Magnetic Fields' Hard-Headed 'Realism'