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Creepy Clown Hoax Becomes Epidemic
恐怖小丑恶作剧风靡全球
A clown hoax that began in the United States is spreading across the globe and becoming an epidemic. Sightings of clowns trying to scare people began late this summer in South Carolina and are now being reported in Canada, the UK, and even Australia. A number of incidents have been reported of clowns scaring children and even adults into bushes and dark places. Some of the reports describe clowns that are holding knives and running up to cars. Professional clowns say the pranks are no laughing matter. Some pranksters have been chased down and even shot after trying to frighten people.

始于美国的小丑恶作剧已扩散至全球，风靡一时axqfS2klVOXPE%HO。今年夏末，美国南卡罗来纳州出现有小丑试图恐吓行人，现在在加拿大、英国甚至澳大利亚均有此类报道XO2%vE|TrawjG~X。有很多报道称小丑将孩子甚至成年人吓到了灌木丛里或者黑暗的地方mVDDw~uS27VtHd。另一些报道称还有小丑拿刀追着车跑x6;hz!W^)LlmrB*。专业小丑认为这种恶作剧并不是闹着玩的X5-BQQ])~fIkzK[(q@u。有些搞恶作剧的人在吓完人以后被揪了出来，甚至遭到了枪击y9||c_b#@ABp02z4。

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重点讲解

1.chase down 找出
例句：This is better than expecting the user to chase down a readme file somewhere, and it creates a familiar interface for your documentation.
这总好过期望用户从某处找出一个自述文件，并且它为您的文档创建一个熟悉的界面(4eogAgc5ePDX%。
2.no laughing matter 正经事，不是闹着玩的
例句：We feel that life is no laughing matter.
我们觉得人生绝非是开玩笑的事情;+PhT,of84r4TtDDlp。
3.run up to 跑到，达到，积累到
例句：Because of the compilation overhead involved this may actually increase the amount of time it takes for your program to run up to the point where problem occurs.
由于采用这种方法所引起的编译负载可能会实际增加程序运行到出现问题的地方所需要的时间s3L.kxMmkO2#L0。