"Why the long pause?" asks the bartender.

“你干吗等这半天才说完啊？”酒吧招待问道。

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More comfortable then but not quite settled, the first question was greeted by a long pause and then a moment of mild panic for the production crew as she shut her eyes and put her head in her hands.

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The question of whether tracks should be sold separately is met with a long pause as Mason considers the collision between artistic integrity and digital reality.

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So maybe Arabia was colonized early and there was a long pause before the Beachcomber Express set off for southeast Asia?

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