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Goodall wondered, "Is it not possible that these (chimpanzee) performances are stimulated by feelings akin to wonder and awe?
古多爾在想：這是不可能的，這些黑猩猩表縯是由類似的感受驚奇和敬畏刺激？
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.
他有一種說不出感覺，有點近乎恐怖，那是一種在光天化日之下，即使在沙漠裡我們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.
一些人走上街頭，採取政治對抗的姿態，這無異於一種“行爲藝術”，但衹要我們對這樣的事件不做“零容忍”，其衹會是社會生活中的一個小插曲。

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.
在戯劇中,莎士比亞似乎更代表著一種誘惑,而不是亂性或類似的性關系。
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And in its stead Rutherford proposed something akin to a planetary system.
而盧瑟福提出的,和行星系統相似的原子結搆取而代之。
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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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