We fear years, but don't know on the hoof is how pleased.

我们害怕年，但不知道活着是多么兴奋。

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We lived for years in a perpetual state of fear.

多年来我们一直生活在恐惧中。

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We also project our terror of death onto the aged, assuming that fear and depression must stalk the final years of life.

我们也表露老年人对死亡的恐惧，仿佛不安和抑郁一定会纠缠着生命的最后几年。

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We have to fear that 80 years of building a middle class and safety nets for the less than well off are in the process of being demolished.

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Nearly 180 years later, I fear we as Americans have taken too much stock in our own enlightenment and less in our willingness to make hard choices for the benefit on the country.

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It is not the market's "irrational exuberance" (it is still up some two thirds since Alan Greenspan uttered those words nearly three years ago) that we need fear, but the Federal Reserve's irrational exuberance in mistakenly strangling the economy in the name of fighting a long-dead inflation.

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