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gruesome 身の毛もよだつ、身震いするほど恐ろしい、陰惨な

I can't stand horror movies because they're so gruesome. 身の毛がよだつので、ホラー映画は耐えられない。

pick up the pieces 事態を収拾する、後始末をする、

It was a year after the United States, in hot pursuit of Osama bin Laden, had ended its high-altitude bombing of the countryside. "Somehow I felt obliged to try to help pick up the pieces," writes Ms. Jones, a journalist and the author of "Women Who Kill."