The creaking of the hinges sounded very loud in that silence.

铰链的嘎吱声在那寂静中听起来很响。

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I soon realized that silence was not unpleasant.

我很快意识到沉默并不会令人不快。

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Management by hope: Assuming that silence means everything is going well.

主观管理(Management by hope)：认为平静的表象就代表一切顺利。

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And everywhere was silence- the strange silence that comes only to a room where the clock has stopped ticking.

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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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She explains to Comus what would happen should she actually choose to break her silence, should she actually choose to unleash all of the rhetorical powers that she has pent up inside of her.

她向科玛斯解释,一旦她打破沉默将会发生些什么，一旦她真正选择揭开那些,禁锢在她内心许久的浮夸的力量。

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The best part: all that silence means no need to argue with the ex.

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And that silence is a dangerous state of affairs for the larger dialogue around reform.

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But Sony Electronics VP of Home Entertainment Hiroshi Sakamoto may be the first to break that silence.

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