A pause in speech is silence.

演讲中的停顿是沉默的。

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Is silence like a fever?

安静就像发烧么？

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Sometimes the best answer is silence.

有时沉默是最好的答案。

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And he said they wanted a change. He said: "Party unity is not a sufficient excuse for silence."

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This is Barth's effort to enclose the silence into something readable, to contain that impossibility in the structure of the story.

这是巴斯想把沉默嵌套到某些可阅读的的，在故事的结构中包含一些不可能的努力。

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like his father, is reduced to silence, it is notable that his argument is not defeated.

像他父亲一样沦于沉默，但要注意的是他的辩论还未被击败。

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"It is less than perfect but at the moment the alternative is silence, " he said.

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Both are reluctant to talk to journalists, because a condition of their employment is silence.

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Colin Beckley, director of the Meditation Trust, says the only true spiritual experience is silence.

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