"Attitudes toward mental illnesses are still archaic and many families live in silence and shame about what is happening in their own lives and in their children's lives," Douglas Strouse said.

道格拉斯说，‘对待精神疾病的态度仍是守旧的。许多家庭对他们自己生活和他们孩子的生活里发生的事沉默和感到羞耻。’

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In this crazy age we live in, the average person doesn't spend even an hour a month in total silence.

在我们生活的这个疯狂的时代，一般人一个月不会用一个小时全然安静。

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The poor everywhere also pay a sort of "noise tax": they rarely live in perfect silence.

此外，世界各地的穷人还要缴纳一种“噪音税”：他们很少居住在十分安静的地方。

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They live in near-constant silence, stoically bearing the drudgery of their hand-to-mouth existence.

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But there are also homecomings as terrible in their way as exile: parents who finally reclaim children from orphanages, but live out their relationships in stigma and silence, for ever hoarding food and quailing before policemen.

ECONOMIST: The Soviet Union

Anonymous blogging, then, seems like a jolly good idea, especially in a world where bloggers can be blackmailed or bullied into silence, and where some seem to live in fear of a fatwa.

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