silence is golden
silence
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈsaɪ.ləns/ us /ˈsaɪ.ləns/
to make someone or something be quiet: 使安静；使沉默
The teacher raised his voice to silence the class (= to make them stop talking).老师提高嗓门让学生们安静下来。
Her remark about his appearance completely silenced him (= made him unable to answer).她对他外貌的评价使他哑口无言。
figurativeThe enemy's guns were silenced (= made to stop firing) in a surprise attack.突袭让敌人的枪炮停止射击。
to prevent someone from expressing their views or from criticizing or opposing someone: 阻止（某人）表达意见;压制批评
Big companies file lawsuits to silence their critics.大公司通过诉讼来压制批评的声音。
The more they try to silence us, the more we will speak out.他们越是想让我们沉默，我们就越会公开表达意见。
Al Capone silenced his opponents by killing them.阿尔‧卡彭杀死了对手，让他们永远地闭嘴。

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silence | American Dictionary

silence
noun
us/ˈsɑɪ·ləns/

silencenoun (QUIET)

[ U ]
an absence of sound; complete quiet:
A profound silence spread itself through the sleeping house.

silencenoun (NO SPEAKING)

[ C/U ]
a state of not speaking or making noise:
[ U ]The two men ate in silence and listened to traffic swishing past on the highway.
[ C ]Her question was followed by a long silence (= a long period of time in which no one spoke).
silence
verb[ T ]
us/ˈsɑɪ·ləns/

silenceverb[T] (STOP FROM SPEAKING)

to stop someone from speaking or from criticizing:
Successful action could silence the administration’s critics.

Examples of silence

silence
In spite of claims by the editor to national representation, many voices are silenced by their absences.
The article shows how through a series of assumptions the doubts regarding the programme were silenced and the narrative upheld.
He and his fiddle are silent, silenced by noise.
Her portrayal of individual lone stars, in the heavenly constellations, is punctuated by silences, most ominously.
The song ends brusquely as the realization of being in love silences the singer, and wittily interrupts the expected conclusion.
Our approach explains why there is a limit on consonant clusters : the intervening empty vocalic positions have to be silenced.
In memoirs the silences and the ellipses are as instructive as the narrative.
What is more, neither version of the silencing argument actually rests on liberal premises, as purported.
There are no silences between words in continuous speech that serve to separate lexical tokens as do spaces on the printed page.
Rate of gene silencing at duplicate loci : a theoretical study and interpretation of data from tetraploid fishes.
The precise mechanisms underlying imprinting, paramutation and transposon silencing remain elusive, and these processes are currently viewed as separate phenomena.
The problem here was that the noise of battle could not be so easily silenced.
Families and loved ones must not be silenced.
However, its aftermath represents one of the great silences in the literature.
In other words, what the historian chooses to tell inevitably sanctions some voices while silencing others.
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Collocations withsilence

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These are words often used in combination with silence.

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absolute silence
So on the first occasion that they were ever performed to an audience, the closing moments of the drama were presented in absolutesilence.
awkward silence
An awkwardsilence follows, and the spectators shuffle out of the hall.
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