They hurried about in dead silence, with anxious faces.

他们四下忙乱，人人一言不发，面有忧色。

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There was a dead silence.

一阵死寂。

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There followed a dead silence after a strange noise.

奇怪的声音之后便是死一般的寂静。

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And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.

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She described a "dead silence" in her home and told how she still felt she was waiting for Jay to come home.

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Shortly I'd be back in the hotel with nothing but dead silence.

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Readers on CNN.com offered their own comments, advancing a theory that police made sure Dorner was dead to silence him.

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