She waited in an agony of suspense.

她提心吊胆地等待。

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A new machine may save thousands of animals from the agony of drug tests.

一种新机器可能使成千上万只动物免于药物试验的极大痛苦。

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The boys clasped each other suddenly, in an agony of fright.

两个男孩突然紧紧地抱在一起，吓得要命。

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We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.

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Eliot's poetry, the poetry he created out of this experience, is a poetry of spiritual agony.

艾略特的诗歌，他以自身经验写成的那些诗，是一种精神上的爆发。

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Instead of listening to the cry of agony they listen to the ring of dollars and stoop down and pick up the coins."

怨言绕耳过,硬币叮当落,速拾不嫌多"

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That's not much to worry about after the agony of the previous 24 hours.

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Because of this her family had to suffer the agony of uncertainty as to what had happened to her.

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His Ten Less-Basic Principles of Economics should save countless students the agony of taking numbers-and-graph-laden economics courses.

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