"To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit, and the silencing of dissent,know that you are on the wrong side of history -- but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."

VOA: special.2010.09.25

And it's precisely a silencing of classical literature that Milton is attempting to effect here.

准确的说那是古典文学中缄默的一部分,弥尔顿在这想让人们注意它。

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In a little scene from the early English history that Milton had selected from his reading, you have an image of silencing, of a horrifying and unredeemable speechlessness that is so closely connected to virginity.

早期英国文学中的一个小场景,那是弥尔顿从他的阅读中选出的，你们，对于可怕的不可挽回的哑口无言有种寂静感,这与童贞紧密相连。

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Experts say the August 6 attacks that briefly shut down the Twitter and Facebook social networking websites were aimed at silencing a Georgian blogger who is critical of Russia's military incursion into his country last year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

You might have also heard about the RISC complex, or the RNA silencing complex, and these are the biological mechanisms that are involved here and only shown by orange arrows on this slide.

你们也可能听说过RISC复合体,也叫RNA沉默复合体,幻灯片上给出了这些涉及的生物机理过程,并将它用橙色的箭头指示出来

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