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他们一听到敌人的名字就心惊胆战。 The very name of the enemy struck terror into their hearts. | ||
相亲相爱吃干面包胜过心惊胆战吃油炸鸡。 Dry bread is better with love than friend chicken with fear and trembling. | ||
小孩在汽车前面跑过，我们看得心惊胆战。 We watched appalled as the child ran in front of the car. | ||
开学的第一天总是令我心惊胆战(现在也一样)。 The first day of school was always so nerve wracking for me. (Still is.) | ||
每当头马这样叮叮当当一摇晃，那旅客便要吓一跳，正如一切神经紧张的旅人一样，总有些心惊胆战。 Whenever the leader made this rattle, the passenger started, as a nervous passenger might, and was disturbed in mind. | ||
他躲在一根石柱后面，心惊胆战，唯恐那位姑奶奶回转头来，所以不动也不敢呼吸，眼睛盯着那孩子。 There, trembling lest the aunt should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to breathe, he gazed at his child. | ||
晚上睡觉，突然舍友大叫，整个人像掉到冰窟了，那鸡皮疙瘩一阵一阵的，鄙人胆子较小，听着她模糊不清的梦话，心惊胆战。 Sleep at night, suddenly roommate screamed, the whole portrait fell through the ice, and then burst a while goose bumps, and I daring young, listening to her vague gibberish, frightened. | ||
兴业银行发布四季度预亏警告，令投资者心惊胆战。原因是该银行减记14亿欧元（20亿美元）与美国资产债务相关的财产。 Société Générale spooked investors by issuing a profit warning for the fourth quarter because it had to write down a further Euro 1.4 billion ($2 billion) in assets related to American property debt. | ||
五十多年后，电影导演史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格在拍摄《拯救大兵瑞恩》时，为了拍摄诺曼底登陆这一让人心惊胆战的场景，还不遗余力地刻意复制这一“错误”所导致的视觉效果。 More than 50 years later, director Steven Spielberg4 would go to great lengths to reproduce the look of that "error" for his harrowing D-Day landing sequence in Saving Private Ryan. | ||
