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"ref": "2011, Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing, page 194",
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"word": "讓……毛骨悚然"
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"word": "让……毛骨悚然"
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"sense": "vulgar: to frighten someone",
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"word": "säikäyttää paskat jonkun housuihin"
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