Drops in stock market prices have investors breaking out into a sweat.

【sweat】股市大跌使投资者很恐慌。

Before the commencement of the present disturbances, the coercive power of the mother-country had always been able to restrain those factions from breaking out into any thing worse than gross brutality and insult.

在目前的动乱开始之前，祖国的强制力一直能够阻止这些派系爆发比粗暴和侮辱更糟糕的事情。