Second, hundreds if not thousands of intellectuals and would-be dissidents have gone into hiding for fear of arrest.
其次，没有一千，也有几百的知识分子和异端分子因惧怕被捕而隐藏起来。
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One of the most startling turn of events was the saga of the arrest of Saif al-Islam, the second son and the man widely seen, until several months ago, as his likely successor.
The second thought was fear, channelled into self-preservation: I jumped out of bed and grabbed my clothes from the floor. It didn't occur to me to arrest him.