The prospect of a nuclear catastrophe lingered , and calmness itself took on a talismanic role in the national conversation .
核灾难出现的前景萦绕不散,镇静成为国家会谈中的护身符。
What was needed was to cross a raging river and the longer one lingered the more likely one would be swept away by the forces who wanted to stop reform altogether .
俄罗斯的改革就像是跨越一条激流汹涌的河流,徘徊的时间越长,越有可能会被反对改革的力量所冲跨。
Pro-government television , which lingered in its coverage of daraya over unusually explicit footage of heaped and mangled bodies , issued equally sinister messages .
The damage from the early 1990s property and banking bust lingered for years , devastating the government 's finances and , eventually , enveloping the economy in deflation .
The idea that blood was the stuff of life lingered on aided by the dual meaning of " heart " it helped bequeath to our language and our thoughts .
血液是生命之本的观点在延续,借助于“心脏”一词的双重含义,它还留存在我们的语言和思想中。
This isn 't a damning indictment of my parents , because they raised us in the only way they knew how , which was with the rather cold victorian values that lingered throughout the first half of the 20th century .