We all know people who we thought to be our friends but we found out that they were talking behind our backs, or that they were operating to deceive us in some way or another.

我们都知道,原认为是朋友的人,却被发现,在我们背后讲坏话，或是想要,以任何方式欺骗我们之类的事情。

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Or conceivably for some of these things, perhaps it mitigates it; it minimizes it in one way or another.

或者对于有些事情，也许它减弱了它的坏处;,它以某种方式减少了它的伤害。

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