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词汇 hush
释义 hush
noun[ S or U ]
uk /hʌʃ/ us /hʌʃ/
a sudden, calm silence: (突然的)寂静,安静
deathly hushThere was a deathly hush after she made the announcement.她宣读完声明后,现场一片死寂。
hush fallsA hush fell over the room.房间里一片寂静。
mainly UKinformalLet's have some hush, please! (= Be quiet, please!)请安静!
Synonyms
still(NOT MOVING)literary
stillness
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Silence & quiet
acoustic tile
cricket
cricketsidiom
dead silence
deafening
deafeningly
hushed
inaudibly
muffle
muffled
noiseless
noiselessly
pin-drop
quiet
quietness
radio silence
silence
silent
silently
under your breathidiom
hush
exclamation
uk /hʌʃ/ us /hʌʃ/
used to tell someone to be quiet: 嘘(用于叫人保持安静)
Hush! You'll wake the baby!嘘!你会吵醒婴儿的!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: interjections
aiyo
attaboy
attagirl
auf Wiedersehen
aw shucks
doctor
eat your heart outidiom
figure
guess
lordy
marry
mazel tov
more
more power to your elbow!idiom
roll
yoicks
yoink
you know something?idiom
you should have seen/heard something/someoneidiom
you the man!idiom

hush | American Dictionary


hush
noun[ U ]
us/hʌʃ/
quiet or silence, esp. after noise:
A hush fell over the crowd.

hush


exclamationus/hʌʃ/
Hush! You’ll wake the baby!

Examples of hush


hush
Now usually only used in the phrase with bated breath hushed and very ordinary or trivial ones.
I shall not say too much about this because, obviously, the matter has been hushed up.
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Why was this case allowed to be stopped, and why was it so suddenly hushed up?
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There has been a culture of hushing things up.
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He will tell us, perhaps, why it is hushed up.
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On the other hand, if there is possible ground for disagreement it should not be hushed up and dealt with by any form of secrecy.
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One cannot guarantee that a complaint of criminal activity or a criminal offence of a disreputable nature will not be hushed up.
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How many other cases of this nature have been hushed up?
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Supposing that at any moment of anxiety every voice of criticism must be hushed.
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I resent the suggestion that anything has been hushed up.
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There is every chance in a district where slackness exists of crime being hushed up by village officers and by policemen.
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Is not this matter being hushed up to avoid a scandal?
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They hushed it up and issued denials for so long that they had no choice but to continue doing so.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
We deny that this is how personal data is protected and are worried that a possibly less than transparent deal is being hushed up.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
There are one or two other incidents which have been investigated and hushed up.
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