It is perfectly all right, now and then, for a human to be possessed by the urge to speak, and to speak while others remain silent.

有时候，一个人被说话的冲动所支配，在别人保持沉默的时候说话，这是完全正常的。

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It was believed that people could be possessed by evil spirits.

以前，人们相信人有可能被恶魔缠身。

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So here alized this pond must be possessed by a water demon.

所以这个池塘肯定是已经被水怪控制了。

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Could it be that the hidden throb I stole from them did not affect their future? I had possessed her, and she never knew it.

它是不是我从那些人物那获取隐藏的脉搏,我为她着迷，她并不知晓。

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Milton has shown so much promise. He possessed so many obvious talents that could be poured into the profession for which he was so clearly suited the profession of the ministry but Milton was remaining at his father's house in what seemed like a perpetual state of humiliating self-infantilization.

弥尔顿表现出了很大的决心,他拥有那么多,这个职业需要的天赋,例如牧师,而弥尔顿却选择呆在他父亲的房子里,像是一种永远羞耻的不成熟状态。

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While this, in theory, can be audited, in practice the knowledge to do so is unlikely to be possessed by the auditor.

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The Last Exorcism, which opens Friday, concerns a young girl who may or may not be possessed by the devil (hence the exorcism).

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But suffice it to say that older movie also was about a young girl who may or may not be possessed by the devil.

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