His first feeling was of anger; his next that his temper fell to zero.

他的第一感觉是愤怒；接着，突然没了脾气。

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TIP: Identify the first signs of losing your temper. See if it's the way your child talks or their mistakes that annoys you.

贴士：确定你发脾气的初步迹象，看是不是被您孩子的谈话方式或他们的错误惹恼了。

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I spent that first day picking holes inpaper, then went home in a smoldering temper.

我玩了一天的纸，窝了一肚子火回家。

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Investors also were spooked by GM's sales-incentive blitz in January and February, which could temper the auto maker's first-quarter earnings.

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And so what we did--I mean, for the first few months we tried to temper it.

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Such behavior by politicians and such a public mood stand in stark contrast to Russia's temper earlier in this decade, when the first postcommunist government, headed by the same Mr. Yeltsin, vowed to pursue cooperation with the West and made good on this pledge by adopting political and economic reforms designed to transform Russia into a Western country.

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