| 词汇 | silent |
| 释义 | silent adjective uk /ˈsaɪ.lənt/ us /ˈsaɪ.lənt/ silentadjective (QUIET)B1 without any sound: 宁静的;寂静的 The empty house was completely silent.那座空房子一片寂静。 literaryIt was four o'clock in the morning and the streets were as silent as the grave(= completely silent).那是凌晨四点，街道如坟墓一样寂静。 making little or no noise quietThere was a quiet tapping at the door. silentThe stadium fell silent after the goal was scored. soft"Come here!" he said in a soft voice. muffledI could hear muffled voices from the next room. faintThere was the faint sound of traffic in the distance. We were struck by the silent grandeur of the desert. The house seemed preternaturally silent. The house, usually bustling with activity, was strangely silent.这栋平时总是热闹非常的房子安静得出奇。 The valley was silent. We walked into the silent church. Silence & quiet acoustic tile breath cricket cricketsidiom dead silence deafening deafeningly hushed inaudibly muffle muffled noiseless noiselessly pin-drop quiet quietness radio silence silence silently under your breathidiom silentadjective (NO SPEAKING)B2 without talking: 沉默的；缄默的 She whispered a silent prayer that her wounded brother would not die.她默默地祷告，希望她受伤的兄弟不会死去。 The police officer told the criminal that he had the right to remain silent.警官告诉罪犯他有权保持沉默。 He was silent on/about his plans for the future.他对将来的打算保持沉默。 Arthur has always been the strong, silent type(= a type of person who says very little).阿瑟一直是那种坚强而沉默的人。 Later Mr Ashby left the court, grim-faced and silent.后来阿什比先生离开了法庭，表情严肃，一言不发。 He gritted his teeth in silent fury.他气得咬牙切齿，一言不发。 We applaud the family's decision to remain silent over the issue.我们非常赞赏这一家人对此事保持沉默的决定。 We can't assume the suspects to be guilty simply because they've decided to remain silent.我们不能仅仅因为疑犯选择保持沉默就断定他们有罪。 He looked happy for a brief while, before relapsing into silent misery.有那么一阵子他看上去很幸福，但接着又陷入了无言的苦恼中。 Falling silent and not speaking be (on) non-speakersidiom bite bite something back bite your tongueidiom button your lipidiom clam clam up draw mouth quiet radio silence silence is goldenidiom speak speechlessly speechlessness stick stick in someone's throatidiom tight-lipped tongue-tied unsaid silentadjective (NOT NOTICED)doing something or happening without being noticed: Hypertension is often called the silent killer. A silent epidemic of oral diseases is affecting our most vulnerable citizens. Unaware be in the darkidiom be on another planetidiom benighted benightedly blind spot blindly foggy Goodness/God/Heaven/Christ knowsidiom illiterate imperceptive in blissful ignoranceidiom innumeracy innumerate insensate unacquainted unattuned unawakened unaware unawareness your guess is as good as mineidiom Related wordsilently Idiomthe silent treatment silent noun[ U ] uk /ˈsaɪ.lənt/ us /ˈsaɪ.lənt/ a setting on an electronic device that stops it from making a noise when it receives a message: （电子设备）静音 The show's about to start so I'm putting my phone on silent.演出马上开始了，我把电话改到了静音。 Communications - general words anti-satellite app autodial autodialler bar hack multimode multipath noise non-computer non-network patch patch someone through satellite trace watch party webchat Zoom bomb Zoombomber Zoombombing silent | American Dictionarysilent adjective us/ˈsɑɪ·lənt/ silentadjective (NOT SPEAKING)not speaking or making noise: I have remained silent till now, Mike, but I have to tell you what I think. If a letter in a word is silent, it is not pronounced: The "b" in doubt is silent. silentadjective (QUIET)completely quiet: Madeleine turned back down the empty, silent street. Examples of silentsilent The natural history of silent gallstones: the innocent gallstone is not a myth. The natural history of silent gallstones; the innocent gallstone is not a myth. Apart from his work the governance perspective is relatively silent about how and why social welfare is achieved. The ingrates remain silent in the face of everyone else's descriptions of them. The noisy chatter of the room gives way to a silent hush. Instead, it is a matter of how such a sequence is unproblematic within broadly "silent" concurrent activities. Despite detailed analyses, only one of the pause variables, silent pause length, was significantly different over the three elicitation times. Therefore, people living in endemic areas should be screened for this clinically silent disease since early treatment may be beneficial. In contrast, the diary is near-silent about certain personal matters. Otherwise, despite being on stage continuously, she is completely silent. Another of the volume's shortcomings is that it is silent on the overall question of whether a nation's pension fund commands sufficient assets. All of these, using masks, transformed the empty stage into a sacred grove, the 'silent, waiting glade'. Multiplying instances of such deadlocks builds up a stifling atmosphere in the text, crushing the reasonable reader's silent replies. We consider a monadic -calculus, with output -b, input ax, and silent prefixes. He had, however, remained silent about the issue. See all examples of silent 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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