| 单词 | in silence |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin silence P3. in silence: without speaking; without making any noise or sound. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adverb] in silencea1382 without language?c1450 sub silentio1563 monkishly1595 wordlessly1840 pauciloquently1844 speechlessly1847 taciturnly1847 reticently1859 incommunicativelya1862 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Eccles. x. 11 If þe edder bijte in scilense [L. in silentio]: no thing lasse þan he: haþ þat priuyly bacbiteþ. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 93 (MED) We shulden be tymes reste, and preye to God in scilence. c1475 Advice to Lovers in J. O. Halliwell Select. Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1840) 41 He kept the nyhte in peas and silence. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 566 In speech will I ever render thankes, and in silence acknowledge my selfe most deepely endebted. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. xvii. 75 But had the Crow his Food in Silence eat, Less had his Quarrels been. 1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad vii. 192 Amaz'd we stood; in silence, each his mind To fear and hope alternately resign'd. 1827 in W. Scott Chron. Canongate Introd. App. The next toast..he wished to be drunk in solemn silence. 1947 A. Ransome Great Northern? viii. 111 The Sea Bear slipped on in silence towards the big white motor yacht. 2001 I. McEwan Atonement 214 They sat in silence on the hay bales smoking the first cigarette of the day. < as lemmas |
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