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In the house of the Working Man or respectable Tradesman -- where the wife is allowed to turn her back upon her husband, while pursuing her household avocations -- there are at least intervals of quiet, when the wife is neither seen nor heard, except for the humming sound of the continuous Peace-cry; but in the homes of the upper classes there is too often no peace.

在工人家庭或受人尊敬的商人家庭--当妻子在追求她的家庭业余爱好时，她被允许用后背对着丈夫--当看不见或听不见妻子的时候，除了她们持续不断呼喊和平的嗡嗡声，家里至少还有片刻的清净；但是在上层社会的家里，常常没有什么安宁。

The sly old benchers laughed at the pleasing fiction; but they all agreed that Robert Audley was a good fellow; a generous-hearted fellow; rather a curious fellow too, with a fund of sly wit and quiet humor, under his listless, dawdling, indifferent, irresolute manner.

灵巧而年老的主管委员嘲笑他这种有趣的无稽之谈；但他们一致认为罗伯特·奥德利是个好人；是个心地仁义的人；而且还是一个喜欢寻根究底的人，在他那无精打采的、虚度光阴的、漠不关心的、踌躇不决的态度之下，却储藏着狡猾的机智和文静的幽默。

But I didn't really take much notice of that, brothers only having a bit of a quiet smeck inside, because you could viddy that he had been peeting away at the old whisky, and now he took a bottle from a cupboard in his desk and started to pour himself a real horrorshow bolshy slog into a very greasy and grahzny glass.

不过对此我并不太在意，兄弟们。我的心里面反而在窃笑，因为你能看出来他刚刚喝了不少威士忌。现在，他从桌子上的一个碗柜里又拿出了一瓶，然后在他那油腻而脏兮兮的玻璃杯里倒上了满满一大杯。

It was five o'clock, and along the silent pavements in the quiet, aristocratic shelter of the tall white houses were drawn up the broughams of stock-exchange people and merchants, while men walked hastily about, looking up at the windows, where women in dressing jackets seemed to be awaiting them.

在人行道上，行人都回过头来看看她们，但她们当中谁也不露出一丝笑容，每个人都行色匆匆，神态像高傲的家庭主妇，在她们眼里，男人似乎不存在似的。

My lady, watchful and quiet as the cold stars in the wintry sky, looked up at these casements with an earnest and scrutinising gaze.

那是座灰色石头的大厦，有长长的好几排窗子，好多窗子里点着暗淡的灯，向外露出微光，象是疲倦的守夜者苍白的眼睛正望着黑夜哩。

The Dowagers Ingram and Lynn sought solace in a quiet game at cards.

遗孀英格拉姆和林恩，安静地玩纸牌解闷。

ELMS WAY is located at the end of a quiet street in a small town.

5150榆树街坐落在小镇上一条安静的小街的尽头。

"The fate of this black hole and others like it is an active area of research," said George Helou, deputy director of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena."Some theories hold that the black hole might quiet down and eventually entera more dormant state like our Milky Way black hole."

美国加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳市加州理工学院，美国宇航局斯皮策科研中心副主管乔治·赫鲁说：&这个黑洞以及类似黑洞的命运是一个研究热点，某些理论坚信黑洞最终会平静下来并最后像银河中心黑洞一样进入休眠模式。&

However, in comparison with his effective work as the ex-mayor, he was hopeless with this new job, because he could only find people from the commercial areas, who had no commitment to attending quiet meetings. They preferred to have their communication at public meetings where they would have comparative freedom to make a noise and even use comedy to present their views.

然而，与他作为前市长卓有成效的工作比较起来，他对新工作并无建树，因为他只能从商业领域找到人选，而这些人选又不承诺参加安安静静的会议，他们宁愿在公众集会上进行交流，在那儿他们可以有相对的自由，可以吵吵闹闹，甚至可以用喜剧来表达他们的观点。

However, in comparison with his effective work as the ex-mayor, h e was hopeless with this new job, because he could only find people from the commercial areas, who had no commit ment to attending quiet meetings. They preferred to have their communication at public meetings where they would have comparative freedom to make a noise and even use c omedy to present their views.

然而，与他作为前市长卓有成效的工作比较起来，他对新工作并无建树，因为他只能从商业领域找到人选，而这些人选又不承诺参加安安静静的会议，他们宁愿在公众集会上进行交流，在那儿他们可以有相对的自由，可以吵吵闹闹，甚至可以用喜剧来表达他们的观点。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。