| 单词 | as silent as the grave |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas silent as the grave P1. as silent as the grave and variants: refraining from or not making any sound; (of a person) discreet, secretive; (of a place) hushed, completely silent, esp. with an eerie or ominous atmosphere. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective] > disposed to secrecy, secretive dernOE covert1340 secrec1385 secretc1440 mum1532 closec1540 whist1577 as silent as the grave1613 privatea1625 dark1650 uncommunicating1650 dry1681 uncommunicative1691 unexpansive1847 secretive1853 tight-lipped1876 cagey1909 zip-lipped1943 closet1948 coy1961 tight1977 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [adjective] > silent > of places or times stillc1275 quieta1382 silent1559 as silent as the grave1613 cosh1803 soundless1816 voiceless1816 1613 H. Austin tr. Ovid Scourge of Venus sig. Cv As silent as the night they now do stand. 1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. ii. 275 Behold a man..dumb to all reproaches; and when injuries are loudest, as silent as the Grave, kissing the hand that strikes him. 1751 R. Schomberg Ietro-rhapsodia 10 So here all paus'd, and silent as the Tomb, Attend the Goddess to pronounce their Doom. 1825 Worcester Mag. & Hist. Jrnl. Oct. 13 Silent as the grave the column moved forward. 1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 1 July (1946) 89 The house..became silent as the grave. 1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae iii. 62 We..lowered ourselves softly into a skiff, and left that ship behind us as silent as the grave. 1936 W. S. Maugham Cosmopolitans 269 I will be as silent as the grave, but honestly I don't understand. What does it all mean? 1954 Shakespeare Q. 5 304 But no voice is raised in an antiphon for poor Ophelia, and the little cortege is as silent as death itself. 2015 Cape Times (Nexis) 17 Nov. Marius Fransman, leader of the ANC in the Western Cape, is also as silent as the grave about the case. < as lemmas |
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