The robbers may have counted on the silence that has long kept these places in the shadows: The gambling is illegal, so owners and bettors are unlikely to report crimes.

那些抢劫者们可能是想利用麻将馆想保持缄默的心态。 正是这种缄默，使得这些地方一直不为人所知：赌博是违法的，所以赌场老板和赌客们不大可能报案。

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Her deep, powerful voice reaches out to all parts of the concert hall. She finishes, and there is a long silence.

她那深沉有力的歌声回荡在音乐厅的四周。

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Sims was awestruck. "There," he said after a long silence, pointing down at the lake, "is where I'd really love to get a sample."

此情此景让西姆斯敬畏不已。他沉默了许久，然后指着下方的熔岩湖说，“我真想去那里取点样品回来。”

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You know, one of the things that is weird about the Bush administration is it goes through these long periods of silence where it just doesn't communicate regularly with the American people.

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The director, Anton Corbijn, a Dutch-born still photographer, works in a disciplined, Precisionist style dry, hard-focus color (Martin Ruhe is the cinematographer) and long stretches of silence (the occasional gunshots are as startling as a sudden crack across the kneecap).

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After remaining relatively quiet for a long time the company is finally breaking their silence regarding the iPhone 4 antenna drama tomorrow morning with a press conference.

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