他语重心长，但年轻的听众却没有领会。

His profundities were lost on the young audience.

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听众屏息静听，但话还是没有说出来。

The audience listened breathless, but the words refused to come.

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尽管这不太可信，但这种令人振作的坦率，还是让听众们更加信任，无论他说什么，毕竟，他没有隐瞒任何事。

Instead of deflating his credibility, this kind of refreshing candidness makes the audience more trusting of whatever else he might say: after all, he's clearly not hiding anything.

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