And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

This is Barth's effort to enclose the silence into something readable, to contain that impossibility in the structure of the story.

这是巴斯想把沉默嵌套到某些可阅读的的，在故事的结构中包含一些不可能的努力。

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So you turn to the person during this long silence

于是你转向沉默的另一个人，

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This means silence is of great value.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

So it is very hard to understand P's silence in this regard, if it stems entirely from the post-exilic, priestly circles.

很难理解P资源在这一方面的缄默，如果它来源于流放后时期，牧师圈子。

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And this is literally a time of silence in a class.

也就是课堂上的安静时刻。

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