Then the spotlight centred on us, and a silence fell as we started to play.
然后聚光灯对准了我们，开始演奏时，会场顿时安静了下来。
Group membership is of elementary importance to our wellbeing and because humans are very sensitive to signals of exclusion, a silence is generally taken as a sign of rejection.
群体归属感对我们的健康至关重要，由于人类对排斥的信号非常敏感，沉默通常被视为拒绝的信号。
A silence hung in the room and the eyes of other men moved between Hekmat and me.
沉默笼罩了房间，其他人的目光在我和赫克·马特间游移。
Then the spotlight centered on us, and a silence fell as we started to play.
但当聚光灯对准我们开始演奏时，会场顿时静了下来。
A silence passes between them as each considers the consequences if the plan fails.
两人都沉默不语，思索着如果计划失败后每种设想和结果。
After the portieres had solemnly closed behind their visitor a silence fell upon the Archer family.
门帘在客人身后庄严地合拢之后，一片沉寂降临在阿切尔的家人之中。
When we shut the door to his office, there was a silence that spoke volumes about what needed to be said.
我们走进他的办公室，关上门，两人都沉默起来，仿佛是在权衡接下来的谈话要用多大的音量。
A silence drifts in like a fog. Lots of room for someone to ask someone out on a date. Maybe they could meet for a cup of coffee.
沉默像雾气一般弥散开来。这时是邀请别人约会的最佳时机。或许他们可以相约喝杯咖啡。
After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done a moment before.
一会儿的寂静无声，他又走近女人跟前停住，象先头那样，叉起两条胳膊。
Nearly all the stalls were closed and the greater part of the hall was in darkness. I recognized a silence like that which pervades a church after a service.
几乎所有的店铺都关门了，大部分会堂笼罩在一片黑暗之中，我嗅到了那份寂静，每次祷告完后弥漫在教堂中的那份寂静。
The photographs are mostly empty of people, with a silence and solitude about them that is enlivened by the odd touch of humour and warmed by some vibrant colour.
所有的照片中几乎没有人，充满了寂静和荒凉，同时由于额外增加的幽默和暖色调而显得生动。
Beleaguered and poor though she sometimes felt, or craving an interruption in the sea of asphalt and iron, a silence in the tide of chatter, she couldn't imagine giving it up.
尽管她时而有种被围困的感觉，时而又觉得自己很可怜；她还感到自己仿佛是在纽约那由沥青和钢筋混凝土构成的世界里吃力地寻找一个出口和一刻喧嚣中的宁静，她都无法想像离开纽约会是怎样。
The offenders lapsed into a sullen silence.
这些罪犯陷入了愤懑的沉默。
There was a long, pregnant silence, which Mrs. Madrigal punctuated by reaching for the cheque.
马德里加尔太太伸手去拿那支票，打破了那一阵长时间的、耐人寻味的沉默。
A patient's silence should not be interrupted too early or allowed to go on unnecessarily.
病人的沉默不应被过早打断，也不应该不必要地持续下去。
Let your smiling lips say on oath how my voice lost itself in silence like a drunken bee in the lotus.
让你含笑的唇儿发个誓，告诉我我的声音怎样在沉默中消失，像一只在荷花中沉醉的蜜蜂。
When their voices died away there came cold silence over the lagoon, and then a feeble cry.
当他们的声音渐渐消失的时候，泻湖上空出现了冰冷的寂静，接着是一声微弱的哭声。
In still another use, persons in Asian cultures may view silence as a sign of respect, particularly to an elder or a person in authority.
在另一个用法中，亚洲人可能认为沉默是一种尊重，特别是对长者或当权者的尊重。
We sat at the dinner table in silence, preferring that to speaking in a difficult language.
我们坐在餐桌旁沉默不语，宁愿那样也不愿使用一种难懂的语言交流。
Participants imagined being one out of three people in a video clip who had either a fluent conversation or a conversation in which flow was disrupted by a brief silence.
在一段视频剪辑中，参与者们想象自己是三个人当中的一个，他们要么有一段流利的谈话，要么有一段被短暂的沉默打断了的谈话。
There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to herself, "I wonder what they WILL do next!"
那儿是死一般的寂静，爱丽丝想：“我想知道，它们下一步怎么办呢？”
Mexicans may use silence when instructions are given by a person in authority rather than be rude to that person by arguing with him or her.
当权威人士下达指令时，墨西哥人可能会保持沉默，而不是粗鲁地与之争吵。
However, Mexicans may use silence when instructions are given by a person in authority rather than be rude to that person by arguing with him or her.
然而，当权威人士给出指令时，墨西哥人可能会保持沉默，而不是粗鲁地与对方争吵。
The district court ruled that Popper's silence in court today should be entered as a plea of not guilty.
该区法院裁决波珀今天在法庭中的缄默应被看作是进行无罪抗辩。
The accused's right to silence was a vital counterbalance to the powers of the police.
被告人的沉默权对警方的权力是一种至关重要的抗衡。
She maintained a dignified silence.
她一言不发，以保持尊严。
They had crowded round Wendy, and as they looked a terrible silence fell upon the wood.
他们把温迪团团围住，当他们看着她的时候，树林里寂静得可怕。
They had crowded round Wendy, and as they looked a terrible silence fell upon the wood.
他们把温迪团团围住，当他们看着她的时候，树林里寂静得可怕。
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