我过去害怕在公众场所说话。

I used to be afraid of speaking in public.

youdao

更奇怪的是，纵然现在我知道他说的没一句是真话，但我听他说话时，我发现我自己仍然觉得他相信自己所说的一切。

Even more strangely, now that I knew he wasn't making a single true statement as I listened to him talk, I still found myself believing that he believed what he was saying.

youdao

我不能相信他所说的。之后房间变得很安静。没有人说话。

I can't believe he said that. And then the room was so quite. Nobody said a word.

youdao

To disfigure the mouth -- this is how I would interpret it -- to disfigure the mouth has a primary effect in rendering one at least temporarily speechless.

把嘴巴丑化--这就是我所理解的-,丑化自己的嘴巴使自己暂时不能说话,它是有十分重要影响的。

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