| 单词 | strong silent man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstrong silent man strong silent man n. a taciturn man whose feelings are concealed and controlled; also strong silent hero and variants. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun] > one who does not speak silentiary1611 mum1666 mumchance1694 strong silent man1839 taciturnist1887 oystera1910 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 30 With this strong silent people have the noisy vehement Irish now at length got common cause made. 1876 Potter's Amer. Monthly July 133/1 I suppose Humphrey, in his secret soul, feared his suit might be hopeless; but he was a strong, silent man, and given to much quiet determination of purpose. 1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. ii. xv. 407 She said I must be careful not to grow up into a strong silent Englishman, because their day was done. 1914 Rev. of Reviews 51 253/1 His Robert Blaine is stronger and more silent than any of the long line of strong, silent heroes whom that most gifted author created and sent forth to be our admiration and despair. 1926 Punch 27 Jan. 112/2 Is the golden eagle the strong silent person that Mr. Batten makes out? 1936 W. S. Maugham Cosmopolitans 260 These for the most part are strong silent men who waste no words. 1988 M. Bishop Unicorn Mountain (1989) xxv. 294 The Hollywood stereotype of the Strong Silent Hero. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Apr. 7/4 What had happened to the archetypal English hero of my childhood, the strong silent man with the stiff upper lip? < as lemmas |
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