Sometimes in my sadness, catching my father's anxious eye, I would reach out to him and grasp his hand as though to ask a silent pardon for the unhappiness which, despite myself, I was causing him.

有时候我正在黯然伤神，突然发现我父亲在忧心忡忡地瞅着我，我伸手过去握了握他的手，似乎在默默无言地要求他原谅我无法自主地给他带来的痛苦。

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Out of the corner of my eye, I could see my girlfriend doubled up with silent laughter at my situation.

我眼角的余光瞟到我的女朋友在一旁已经笑弯了腰——嘲笑我现在的尴尬境地，还努力强忍住不发出笑声。

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But James caught his mother's eye and fell silent.

但詹姆一看到他妈妈的眼睛就立刻闭嘴了。

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It started with Rachel Carson's popular 1962 book on the dangers of pesticides, "Silent Spring, " and the eye on the planet increased with a photo of the Earth taken from Apollo 8 as it orbited near the moon in 1968.

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