英译汉: I started talking and an almost deafening silence greeted my first words. I have always been amazed and intimidated by this silence. It seems to await my next words. The silence is immediately filled with the more subtle yet powerful messages sent by 500 sets of eyes which I continuously scan, “listening” to what they have to say as I talk. In an instant those eyes can turn from wonder and excitement to the disheartening glaze of universal and irreversible disengagement. Perpetually dreading this glaze I nervously pace as I talk and use gestures. At times I feel desperate for their attention.