Her bright,happy world now was filled with silence and darkness.

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She explains to Comus what would happen should she actually choose to break her silence, should she actually choose to unleash all of the rhetorical powers that she has pent up inside of her.

她向科玛斯解释,一旦她打破沉默将会发生些什么，一旦她真正选择揭开那些,禁锢在她内心许久的浮夸的力量。

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She, in her place, refused him any help, With the least stiffening of her neck in silence.

她在那里，拒绝了他的帮助，她安静下来，肢体僵硬。

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