Several days before the Spring Festival, Wuhan was locked and the city became quiet.

春节前几天，武汉被封城了，整座城市都寂静下来。

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Unrest, home is a quiet and a spirit of spring, the temple.

动乱时，家是一汪平静的清泉，又是一座精神的圣殿。

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The family is a quiet harbor, the warm spring breeze, placid.

家庭是宁静的港湾，春风和煦，波澜不惊。

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Spring is part of a quiet revolution that has taken over Parisian cuisine in the last few years.

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The private back rooms of Beijing restaurants, usually so boisterous before the Spring Festival, are strangely quiet this year.

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The cast of characters building to the punch line is in constant flux, but as it happens, this is the group gathered around a kitchen table on a quiet street in Bethesda, Maryland, one night this past spring.

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