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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Let's say that you've gotten into a disagreement and there's a long period of silence.

假设你们意见相左，你们陷入长时间的沉默。

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like his father, is reduced to silence, it is notable that his argument is not defeated.

像他父亲一样沦于沉默，但要注意的是他的辩论还未被击败。

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Milton is narrating or representing the process by which they are silenced. They're rendered speechless or dumb, and the poem effects this process in order to give someone else an opportunity to speak.

弥尔顿在叙述或描绘这个,他们缄默的过程，他们都变得沉默或哑巴了，同时诗歌也影响了这个过程,为了使另外某个人有机会开口说话。

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? How can we get beyond that "quiet desperation"?

要怎样摆脱“沉默的压抑？

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Basically our government was fairly silent about that part of it.

一般情况下我们政府对此是沉默的。

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So you turn to the person during this long silence

于是你转向沉默的另一个人，

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You might have also heard about the RISC complex, or the RNA silencing complex, and these are the biological mechanisms that are involved here and only shown by orange arrows on this slide.

你们也可能听说过RISC复合体,也叫RNA沉默复合体,幻灯片上给出了这些涉及的生物机理过程,并将它用橙色的箭头指示出来

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Again,getting rid of the negative does not guarantee us the positive, which is why already in the 1940s, wrote that most men lead lives of quiet desperation.

再强调一次，摆脱消极,不能保证我们变得积极，因此早在19世纪40年代，认为，大多数人都活在沉默的压抑中。

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