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They'd never dare to publish this information, there would be a panic riot.

他们不敢报道这条消息，因为这条消息会引起恐慌。

I hesitate to ask you, but will you lend me some money?

也许我不该问你，你能借我一些钱吗？

Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo's telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse's great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?

某位哲学家曾拒绝使用伽利略的望远镜去观察天空；到了19世纪40年代，有人硬把罗斯勋爵高倍望远镜观测到的螺旋状星云说成是磨镜工留下的磨痕。难道反对伽利略的哲学家比诋毁罗斯勋爵造谣者应受到更大的谴责吗？