Strange, five months of toil and worry then calm descends as welcome and unexpected as an ice-cream van clattering through the bush.

说来也怪，五个月的困苦和忧虑过后，我渐渐平静下来，取而代之的是意想不到的愉悦，仿佛听见一辆冰激凌车正卡搭卡搭地穿过闷热的灌木丛。

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He got scared at first, but then he tried to calm down.

起初他很害怕，但后来他努力使自己平静下来。

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Then,in the autumn of eighteen fifty-nine, the crisis seemed to calm.

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And then feeling that sort of sense of calm that comes as soon as you push out of the gate."

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Heavy rain hit coastal Massachusetts first at 01:00 and then remained calm for two more hours before another downpour hit the south around 03:00.

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The remark referenced a gospel passage in which Jesus Christ sleeps amid a storm at sea and then awakes to calm the tempest.

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But if instead it confirms the fears of those who warned that governments would use any ECB intervention to abandon essential structural reforms, then this period of calm may not last too long.

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