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Goodall wondered, "Is it not possible that these (chimpanzee) performances are stimulated by feelings akin to wonder and awe?
古多尔在想：这是不可能的，这些黑猩猩表演是由类似的感受惊奇和敬畏刺激？
He felt an indescribable sensation somewhat akin to dread--that dread of the daylight which even in the desert makes us fear we are watched and observed.
他有一种说不出感觉，有点近乎恐怖，那是一种在光天化日之下，即使在沙漠里我们也怕被人看到的恐怖。
Several people took a gesture of political confrontation on the street akin to "perfor-mance art," but this remains a mere episode, as long as we do not set a "zero tolerance" goal.
一些人走上街头，采取政治对抗的姿态，这无异于一种“行为艺术”，但只要我们对这样的事件不做“零容忍”，其只会是社会生活中的一个小插曲。

Jennings says talking on the phone and reaching for a cell phone "is akin to having four beers and driving."
Shakespeare in the theater seemed to represent a temptation greater even than promiscuous sex or perhaps akin to sex.
在戏剧中,莎士比亚似乎更代表着一种诱惑,而不是乱性或类似的性关系。
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And in its stead Rutherford proposed something akin to a planetary system.
而卢瑟福提出的,和行星系统相似的原子结构取而代之。
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Between 2003-2011, 2, 700 charcoal camp workers were liberated from conditions akin to slavery, according to Greenpeace.
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