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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She says nothing after this encounter, remaining silent or speechless for the rest of the mask, but Milton clearly finds, I think, something threatening here.

在这次相遇中她什么都没说，在接下来中也保持着沉默寡言，可我认为弥尔顿在这里找到了一些威胁。

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While he points out that in our culture we feel very uncomfortable with the absence of words, with the absence of sound or noise.

他指出，在我们文化中沉默，让人不适。

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Again,getting rid of the negative does not guarantee us the positive, which is why already in the 1940s, wrote that most men lead lives of quiet desperation.

再强调一次，摆脱消极,不能保证我们变得积极，因此早在19世纪40年代，认为，大多数人都活在沉默的压抑中。

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