You want to know how people screwed up and lived to tell the tale.

你想知道的是别人将事情办砸，后来还能活着来讲他们的这个故事。

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No one has ever successfully opened a sarcophagus and lived to tell the tale.

没有人可以成功的打开这石棺并活着讲述这个故事。

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I survived and have lived to tell the tale of making over my daughter's bedroom.

我幸存下来，所以我能在这告诉你我在整理我女儿的房间的事情。

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Those who suffered horribly but lived to tell the tale naturally get a better hearing than the millions in unmarked graves.

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Had they abandoned these samples, it is quite possible that they would have reached One Ton Camp and lived to tell the tale.

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Both Moore and Ivester can say that they saw the Internet at its nastiest (even if they encouraged it) and lived to tell the tale.

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