In everyday speech, holding your cards close to your vest means not letting other know what you are doing or thinking.

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But you can see from the text that you have in your Hughes editions -- - or any edition, any printed edition now -- the speech continues in the version of the mask that we have.

但是你们可以在休斯版本的书里看到-,或者其他版本，其他任何印刷版本-,演说在《面具》里以我们知道的版本继续。

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Because you're able to use this questions to soften your speech in asking a variety of different questions.

因为你可以用这样的问句来使你提出的问题更为温和。

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At this original performance of the mask, the Lady's speech read by the Lady Alice Egerton, age fifteen, ended at line 779 in your text.

面具》最初的表演中，这位女士的演讲由15岁的爱丽丝，埃杰顿女士朗读，在你们书上的第779行结束。

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