The farther we drove, the more the silence in our station wagon grew until it stood like an impenetrable wall between Dad and me.

我们开得越远，旅行车里就越显得寂静，直到在我和父亲之间仿佛筑起了一堵不可穿透的墙。

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Although for most of us, an extended silence between two people engaged in a conversation can be uncomfortable, it's something you can learn to become comfortable with in time.

虽然对大多数人而言，正在谈话中的两个人若陷入长时的沉默会让人很不舒服，但那也是能帮助你及时学会掌握舒适感的方式。

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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。

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It is strange watching a man decide whether to shoot or not, to watch his eyes on a target, to see the battle in his head for choices, to see a conversation happen in silence between two men on patrol.

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Meanwhile, Mrs Buffet has lost face by her embarrassing inability at a recent football match in Paris between France and Algeria to silence the whistles that greeted the French national anthem.

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They sat in silence, the longest silence that had ever passed between them.

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