Though ostensibly silent, a handwritten letter from someone we know speaks with the voice-querulous, joking, ardent, tinged with an accent from Padua or bulawayo-of its author.

一封友人手写的信件中，安静的文字却流露出他的满腹牢骚，爱开玩笑，待人热心，而且带有一丝来自帕多瓦或布拉瓦约的腔调。

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And though I never displayed much sympathy I knew how to be silent when it involved a meal and a little pin money.

尽管我从未显出很同情的样子，我却明白涉及到一顿饭和一点儿零花钱时要免开尊口。

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More often now, though, the forest's voices are falling silent.

但现在森林里常常寂然无声。

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Intriguingly, though this silent legacy could persist for at least three generations, it was not an irreversible alteration.

ECONOMIST: Genes are not all there is to heredity

Corporate America, normally quick to resist government intrusion, has kept strangely silent, as though businessmen are afraid of the consequences of sticking their heads above the parapet.

ECONOMIST: American politics and business

Scientists, though, have been remarkably silent on the connection.

BBC: Science & Environment