| 词汇 | silencing |
| 释义 | silencing present participle ofsilence 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。 Falling silent and not speaking be (on) non-speakersidiom bite bite something back bite your tongueidiom button your lipidiom clam clam up draw have nothing to say for yourselfidiom hear silence is goldenidiom speak speechless speechlessly speechlessness stick stick in someone's throatidiom strike someone dumb tongue-tied wordless You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Preventing and impeding Examples of silencingsilencing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. That loan was effectively silencing one who would otherwise have been his chief opponent. Although the language of equal opportunity is pervasive, the ideals of democratization may nevertheless operate as a potent form of silencing with variable results. Silencing, so broadly understood, like illocutionar y disablement, is not even a bad thing per se, much less a violation of rights. But perlocutionar y success is not what is supposed to be at issue in the silencing argument. But this apparent advantage also brings the disadvantage of effectively silencing her. But did spectatorial silence, along with a lack of stage smiles, really usher in the silencing of opera itself? Silencing the voice, film divides the senses; dividing the senses, it reveals a fundamental division in opera itself. The reader learns that apomixis can be viewed as an altered form of sexuality that might involve paternal gene silencing. These analyses failed to detect any endogenous antisense transcripts, which might be involved in epigenetic gene silencing. It legitimizes dogmatism and silencing of the opposition. The distance between such silencing and the use of violence to suppress a political philosophy which a government finds inconvenient is even shorter. What is so bad about illocutionar y silencing, so understood? He must reassert his authority by silencing her threatening speech and insisting on his verbal command of the conversation. One might well conclude that this is a good reason not to understand silencing so capaciously. Of course, advocates of the silencing argument need not accept liberal premises; and one suspects that, in fact, they do not. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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