The lately roaring winds are hushed into a dead calm; nature seems to breathe no more, and to be sinking into the stillness of death.
刚刚呼啸的狂风变得寂静无声。大自然似乎不再呼吸, 陷入死亡的寂静。
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At any rate that was how it felt to these two. Hours and hours seemed to go by in this dead calm, and they hardly noticed that they were getting colder and colder.
'My friends, ' Stephen began, in the midst of a dead calm; 'I ha' hed what's been spok'n o' me, and 'tis lickly that I shan't mend it.
“我的朋友们,”史蒂芬在一片死寂中开口说道。 “我已经听懂了别人对我说的话,很高兴我不会改正它。
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Do you look at things differently now than you did, let's say when you were just starting out and we first met you when you came, it was dead calm, I think.
At midday the weather was dead calm, and after lunch in his cabin Bond had got a peremptory message in a round girlish hand on a sheet of the ship's writing paper.