A final shot smashed a gallon jug of Jack Daniel's, and in the silence that followed, Georgi listened to the rich brown elixir drip onto the scuffed hardwood floor.

最后一枪打碎了一个一加仑装的杰克·丹尼威士忌酒罐，然后酒馆里一片沉寂，格奥尔基能听到棕色的酒液溅到磨损的硬木地板上的声音。

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Toad looked desperately this way and that, while the other animals waited in grave silence.

托德绝望地东张西望，而其他动物却在肃穆的沉默中等待着。

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She sat in silence enjoying the ebb and flow of conversation.

她默默地坐在那儿，饶有兴致地听着时高时低的谈话声。

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He did not know anything beyond the hiss and screech of fighter planes passing overhead and the missiles falling, the bears bellowing in another part of the fortress, and the sudden silence of the birds.

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