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单词 hush
释义
hush
(hʌʃ )
Word forms: hushes , hushing , hushed
1. convention
You say 'Hush!' to someone when you are asking or telling them to be quiet.
Hush, my love, it's all right.
2. verb
If you hush someone or if they hush, they stop speaking or making a noise.
She tried to hush her noisy father. [VERB noun]
I had to box Max's ears to get him to hush. [VERB]
Synonyms: quieten, still, silence, suppress  
3. singular noun
You say there is a hush in a place when everything is quiet and peaceful, or suddenly becomes quiet.
A hush fell over the crowd and I knew something terrible had happened.
Synonyms: quiet, silence, calm, still [poetic]  
Phrasal verbs:
hush up
1. phrasal verb
If someone hushes something up, they prevent other people from knowing about it.
The star shot him with an air rifle, then offered him money to hush it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
The Ministry desperately tried to hush up the whole affair. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
2. phrasal verb
If people in authority hush someone up, they try to stop that person revealing information which they want to keep secret.
Translations:
Chinese: 寂静突然的, 使安静下来/安静下来, 嘘!用于告诉别人保持安静
Japanese: 沈黙, 黙らせる/黙る, しっ!
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