We laugh when there is incongruity between what we expect and what we actually--what actually happens unless the outcome is frightening."

当我们的期望和现实发生的事实,之间出现不一致时，我们就会笑,除非这种不一致引起恐惧”

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The frightening experience that Yeats evokes here is the imposition of the divine on the human.

这里写的这种令人害怕的体验,圣对人的强占。

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And Milton's power for so many of these contemporaries was seen as palpably destructive and truly frightening.

在很多这样的同时代的人看来，弥尔顿的力量,破坏力显而易见，着实吓人。

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The second thing is never ask any questions, because presumably it is very frightening to ask, "Any questions?" and people find it's intimidating.

第二件事是千万别发问，因为学生大都害怕提问，一问“有没有问题“，大家就都害怕了。

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But smallpox was, at one time, one of the most frightening diseases on the planet.

但是天花曾经,是这个星球上最令人恐惧的疾病之一

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Now there's something frightening about the health model.

有一些关于健康模型的可怕说法。

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Now, of course, there are denominator issues here because we started with a much higher base rate than these other countries, but if you think about the size of the populations there, the number of people who are going to become diabetic in the next twenty-five years is really very frightening.

现在,当然这里存在着分母的问题,我国的增长基数比其他国家要大得多,因为一旦考虑到人口总量,在未来25年成为糖尿病人的人数,就非常非常的惊人了

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I mean, Avogadro -- I'm fond of his number, and he is, in fact, an interesting, if not frightening looking man this just didn't connect with me.

你想-Avogadro-我喜欢他的常数，而且事实上，他看上去很有趣，如果你不觉得他很吓人的话,我和这个就是不来电。

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It seems that Lawes himself actually played the role of the attendant spirit, that beneficent, slightly frightening figure who hovers over the entire landscape of the mask.

看起来好像,劳斯自己扮演了跟班精神，那善行微妙地,让那些参与《面具》创作的人员产生了恐惧。

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It's possible that he's hiding his talent or burying his conceived merits deep within the earth, and it's this frightening possibility that Milton forces himself to engage head on - the implications of this parable.

他不可能总藏着他的才能,或者把他即将成形的文章埋在地下，就是这种可怕的可能性,使弥尔顿敦促自己注意,这则寓言的暗示。

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So, why should a non-frightening incongruity cause people to make a distinctive loud noise consisted of staccato segments of one fifteenth of a second each separated by a fifth of a second?

为什么不引起恐惧的不一致性,会让人们发出一种与别不同的声音,而且这种声音是间断的，一节声音持续15分之一秒,两节声音之间也是相隔15分之一秒？

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And you're just unconscious of how this happens but it's unpleasant and kind of frightening that this could happen, that this could apply to things like why you're now studying at Yale, why you feel the way you do towards your friends, towards your family.

你根本没有意识到知觉过程是如何发生的,但当你将无意识概念应用到很多事情中时,你便会感到不悦和恐惧,比如，你为什么会来耶鲁求学，你为什么会觉得应当这样，去对待你的朋友和家人。

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