- 1. It is hard to determine just how she does this, since her senior colleagues know they would soon fall from favour if they broke the omerta that surrounds her.
- 如果他们打破她身上的沉默法则，自己不久便将失去支持，她的资深同事都明白这个道理，却依旧很难弄清她是如何做到这一点的；
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- 2. It is hard to determine just how she does this, since her senior colleagues know they would soon fall from favour if they broke the omerta that surrounds her.
- 如果他们打破她身上的沉默法则，自己不久便将失去支持，她的资深同事都明白这个道理，却依旧很难弄清她是如何做到这一点的；
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- 3. And the Mafia cemented its power by originating the law of silence, the omerta.
- 黑帮采用缄默法，即所谓守口如瓶的原则，加强了自己的权力。
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- 4. Even a Sicilian sentenced to twenty years might break the omerta and talk his brains out.
- 即使一个西西里人，若被判二十年徒刑，也可能打破“缄默”的原则，把肚子里的话全说出来。
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- 5. Omerta became the religion of the people.
- 缄默法简直成了人们虔诚信仰的宗教信条。
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- 6. He came to understand the contempt for authority and legal government, the hatred for any man who broke omerta, the law of silence.
- 他终于懂得了人们对有权的合法政府蔑视的根源所在。 懂得了人们对任何一个破坏了缄默法的人之所以仇视的根源所在。
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