MM: Because silence intimidates them and they feel a need to fill it, even if they have nothing to say.

因为沉默不语会使她们感到不安，即便没什么话可说，她们也会找话题来打破沉默。

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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。

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Silence fell on the audience, because that figure seemed so improbable.

台下一片沉寂，因为这个数字太不现实了。

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"It is absolutely unacceptable to have individuals suffering in silence because they're afraid their peers or superiors will make fun of them,or worse, it will adversely affect their careers,".

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Her interest was first inspired by her mother, who suffered from clinical depression herself, but often in silence because of the stigma attached to those who admit to mental illness.

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She even alleged that Airbnb tried to silence her because it did not want to mess-up its funding.

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He mostly takes it in silence, because he wants to maintain the fiction that his tormentors are his friends.

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