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The curate might set as many chapters as he pleased for Catherine to get by heart, and Joseph might thrash Heathcliff till his arm ached; they forgot everything the minute they were together again: at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge; and many a time Ive cried to myself to watch them growing more reckless daily, and I not daring to speak a syllable, for fear of losing the small power I still retained over the unfriended creatures.

尽管副牧师随心所欲地留下多少章节叫凯瑟琳背诵，尽管约瑟夫把希刺克厉夫抽得胳臂痛，可是只要他们又聚在一起，或至少在他们筹划出什么报复的顽皮计划的那一分钟，他们就把什么都忘了。有多少次我眼看他们一天比一天胡来，只好自己哭，我又不敢说一个字，唯恐失掉我对于这两个举目无亲的小家伙还能保留的一点点权力。

For instance, the more versatile Singaporeans, with richer experiences of life, might have been deterred from taking part for fear of losing face within sight of friends and relatives, should they perform ignominiously.

一些阅历丰富的新加坡人，可能害怕会在亲人和朋友面前出丑，而不愿意参加节目。

For fear of briers and thorns you shall not go upon any mountainside which used to be hoed with the mattock; they shall be grazing land for cattle and shall be trampled upon by sheep.

先前用锄头开垦的山地，没有人敢到那里，因为害怕荆棘蒺藜。那里将成为放牛和羊群践踏的地区。

And the soldiers of the escort, apparently afraid in the miserable plight they were in themselves, to give way to the pity they felt for the prisoners, for fear of making their own lot harder, treated them with marked moroseness and severity.

押送队士兵的处境和战俘们同样悲惨，他们生怕，如果他给俘虏以同情，那就会使自身处境更加悲惨，所以他们对战俘的态度格外冷漠和严厉。

The thought of dog adoption from a shelter may be off-putting for some people for fear of the animal having health or behavioral problems.

想到狗通过从住房可能会场外把一些人害怕后的动物健康或行为问题。

This is nonsense but with it some organs of the popular Press played upon the emotions of their reader s so successfully that many candidates for Parliament were afraid to support abolition for fear of losing votes and the result was the muddle-headed Homicide Act of 1957 which made murder with robbery a capital crime and allowed the poisoner to escape the gallows.

这本是废话，但一些受欢迎的报刊机构却以它成功地利用了读者的感情，致使许多议员候选人因害怕失去选票而不敢支持废除死刑，结果是出现了头脑糊涂的1957年的"凶杀法令"，规定凶杀抢劫为死罪而允准放毒人免处绞刑。

This is nonsense but with it some organs of the popular Press played upon the emotions of their readers so successfully that many candidates for Parliament were afraid to support abolition for fear of losing votes and the result was the muddle-headed Homicide Act of 1957 which made murder with robbery a capital crime and allowed the poisoner to escape the gallows.

这本是废话，但一些受欢迎的报刊机构却以它成功地利用了读者的感情，致使许多议员候选人因害怕失去选票而不敢支持废除死刑，结果是出现了头脑糊涂的1957年的"凶杀法令"，规定凶杀抢劫为死罪而允准放毒人免处绞刑。

This is nonsense but with it some organs of the popular Press played upon the emotion s of their readers so successfully that many candidates for Parliament were afraid to support abolition for fear of losing votes and the result was the muddle-headed Homicide Act of 1957 which made murder with robbery a capital crime and allowed the poisoner to escape the gallows.

这本是废话，但一些受欢迎的报刊机构却以它成功地利用了读者的感情，致使许多议员候选人因害怕失去选票而不敢支持废除死刑，结果是出现了头脑糊涂的1957年的"凶杀法令"，规定凶杀抢劫为死罪而允准放毒人免处绞刑。

We decided not to prosecute them , for fear of asking for trouble.

我们决定不起诉他们，免得惹事生非。

Or like a storm - cloud from the sky, wherein is darkness and thunder and lightning; they put their fingers in their ears at the thunder - clap, for fear of death, for God encompasses the misbelievers.

或像一个风暴-云从天空的，其中的黑暗和雷电；他们把他们的手指在他们的耳朵在打雷-拍手，怕死亡，包括对上帝的

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。