There was no thought, only that silence.

没有思想，只有那寂静。

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If you're faced with an awkward silence at a dinner party, the only thing that always gets everyone talking again is to give the host a compliment.

如果你在宴会上遇到了尴尬的沉默，唯一能让所有人再次说起话的办法就是说句恭维主人的话。

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In the eerie silence of the cavern, the only sound that could be heard was made by water which dripped continuously from the high dome above them.

洞里有一种可怕的寂静，唯一的可以听见的声响是高高的圆顶上不间断地滴水的嘀嗒声。

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And everywhere was silence- the strange silence that comes only to a room where the clock has stopped ticking.

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Our silence only validates that script.

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All week I'd think of the conversation I'd have with my parents the following Sunday after church, collecting imagined victories, social engagements, popularity, good behavior, although I had not told them I was going to Mass every Sunday or how little I missed the long silence of Quaker Meeting, only that noon was the best time for them to call.

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But this frenetic diplomacy serves only to amplify the silence coming out of China, which may soon be the only big country left that has omitted to send an envoy, special or otherwise, to see Mwai Kibaki, Kenya's unyielding president.

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