在芬兰以及其它一些国家，谈话中会有长时间的停顿，来访者会觉得这样的沉默很尴尬。
In some countries, including Finland, there are long pauses in the conversation, which can make visitors feel like there's an awkward silence.
对“沉默的歌手”不是这样。他们轻轻地把硬币扔进他的杯子里。
Not so with the Mute Singer. They dropped their pennies gently into his cup.
可能下次他建议晚上出去，我就可以建议他去看场电影，这样的话我们就可以坐在电影院享受令人陶醉的沉默啦。
Perhaps the next time he suggests a night out, I can persuade him to see a film, so we can sit in blissful silence in the cinema instead.
练习用沉默来代替没有感觉的填充词，像“嗯，”“这样”和“像”。
Practice replacing deadening filler words like "um," "so" and "like" with silence.
其他警官也对她施加压力，要求她保持沉默，并要她的男朋友抛弃她，希望这样让她失去勇气，她说。
Other officials pressured her to keep silent and urged her boyfriend to abandon her so she would lose courage, she said.
但是我下了决心，如果我保持沉默的话，这样的事情将持续几年，没有人会做任何事。
But I decided that if I kept silent it would go on for years and no one would do anything about it.
他所以沉默寡言，也许是因为他没有坐在她身边的缘故，不过上次在德比郡，他却不是这样。
He was not seated by her; perhaps that was the reason of his silence; but it had not been so in Derbyshire.
但对沉默的歌手不是这样，他们总是轻轻地将钱放进去。
But not so with the Mute Singer. Into his cup, they dropped their pennies gently.
我们都静静地坐着,最后邦妮打破了沉默,她说, “如果我丈夫不得不死的话,我希望他那时也能采取这样的方式。”
We all sat quietly until Bonnie broke the silence, saying, “If my husband had to die, I wish he could have died this way.
乞丐之中有个人叫做“沉默的歌手”，人们之所以这样叫他，因为他不能说话。
There was one among them who was called "the Mute Singer". He was given this name because he could not speak.
如果把我们三个(兄弟姐妹)放在一个房间里，那么房间里至少有一个人具有以下这样或那样的性格：话多的或者沉默的，小气的或者放纵的，一丝不苟的或者粗心的，戏剧化的或者冷淡的这些形容词来形容。
Get the three of us together and at least someone in the room can be described as garrulous or taciturn, cheap or indulgent, meticulous or sloppy, dramatic or cool.
埃丽诺没再说话，约翰也沉默了一会儿。他最后谈出了这样的看法。
Elinor said no more, and John was also for a short time silent. — Hisreflections ended thus.
甚至，eBay这样的网络拍卖商也保持沉默。
光碟不慢加速，因为他们是如此轻(和死沉默)，他们这样做使这个自行车看尖锐的。
The discs do not slow acceleration because they are so light (and dead silent), and they do make this bike look sharp.
在我短短的一生中，总是听到这样的话，而我又无以对答。我沉默着，痛苦地听着她们的提醒。
All my short life I had been told this, and I had no answer to it. I stayed silent, listening to these painful reminders.
如果我对这一切保持沉默的话，我的生活可能更容易一些。但这样它就没有必要遇到我了。
My life would probably be much easier if I had kept all of this quiet. Yet that wasn't the reason it happened to me.
“高雅的乐趣——是值得追求的啊！”他想这样顶她一句，但她恳求的目光使他沉默了。
"Exquisite pleasures — it's something to have had them!" he felt like retorting; but the appeal in her eyes kept him silent.
当我问及过去的事时，村民们说：“这地方总是这样穷。”然后就沉默不语了。
"This place was always so poor," villagers said if I asked about the old days, and then they fell silent.
当有人说“谢谢”时，你应该回答“不客气”。你必须这样说。不回答或保持沉默是非常粗鲁的行为，而且也是危险的行为。
When someone says "thank you," you must reply "you're welcome." you must! Silence can be rude, and dangerous.
它可能就在上面的这样几个词语或是符号之后发生，也可能就发生在社会可以接受的语言之中，也有可能发生非常怪异的不连续的语词或是沉默中。
It may occur in such words and symbols as above or in purely socially acceptable language, or with bizarre incoherent words, or in silence.
我们没再说什么就进了内德的小汽车，内德平时可不是像这样沉默寡言的。
We got into Ned's car without another word. It wasn't like Ned to be so taciturn.
起初他似乎只是沉默而并非不满；直到朱迪思一再提到这个话题才引出了这样的对话。
At first, indeed, he seemed rather silent than dissatisfied; and it was not till Judith had essayed the subject more than once that it led to the following dialogue.
沉默表示我接受这样的偏见，允许甚至鼓励他们再用这样的言论去伤害别人。
It represents acceptance of such insensitivity, and allows, even encourages, that individual to hurt others with their words.
在这样的环境下，沉默已经缺失。它成为智力减退的一个标志，对人性的一种否定。
In such a context, silence becomes an absence, a mark of intellectual abdication, a rejection of humanity.
这样的事情让沉默的布克先生瞬间变得急躁了！“不！校长您听我说。”布克先生慌忙地解释道，“是凯蒂偷了店长的钱，不是我偷的。”
Such things make silence instantly become impatient with mr. ! No! You listen to me. " Mr. Booker hurriedly explained, "that Katie stole the money manager, not me. "
这样的事情让沉默的布克先生瞬间变得急躁了！“不！校长您听我说。”布克先生慌忙地解释道，“是凯蒂偷了店长的钱，不是我偷的。”
Such things make silence instantly become impatient with mr. ! No! You listen to me. " Mr. Booker hurriedly explained, "that Katie stole the money manager, not me. "
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