英语词汇“to break one's silence”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

b. To begin to speak after refraining from speech for a considerable period of time, spec. to speak about or disclose something shocking, distressing, sensitive, or controversial for the first time after a period of refraining from discussing it. Often as to break one's silence.

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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 1302 Thus fulofte my silence I breke.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. B He [sc. Morpheus] mumbled soft, but would not all his silence breake.

1800 E. Hamilton Mem. Mod. Philosphers III. x. 227 By being delivered in presence of her friend, it [sc. the love-letter] laid her under the necessity of breaking the silence she had hitherto observed to Maria on the subject of Carradine's addresses.

1842 R. Browning Pied Piper of Hamelin in Bells & Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics iv An hour they sate in council, At length the Mayor broke silence.

1927 Washington Post 3 Dec. 1/8 Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York State tonight broke his silence on the prohibition question.

2006 Caribbean Rev. Bks. May 25/2 Nani..passes on, but not before breaking her silence to tell the story of her grandmother's journey from India.

单词	to break one's silence
释义	> as lemmas to break one's silence b. To begin to speak after refraining from speech for a considerable period of time, spec. to speak about or disclose something shocking, distressing, sensitive, or controversial for the first time after a period of refraining from discussing it. Often as to break one's silence. ΚΠ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 1302 Thus fulofte my silence I breke. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. B He [sc. Morpheus] mumbled soft, but would not all his silence breake. 1800 E. Hamilton Mem. Mod. Philosphers III. x. 227 By being delivered in presence of her friend, it [sc. the love-letter] laid her under the necessity of breaking the silence she had hitherto observed to Maria on the subject of Carradine's addresses. 1842 R. Browning Pied Piper of Hamelin in Bells & Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics iv An hour they sate in council, At length the Mayor broke silence. 1927 Washington Post 3 Dec. 1/8 Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York State tonight broke his silence on the prohibition question. 2006 Caribbean Rev. Bks. May 25/2 Nani..passes on, but not before breaking her silence to tell the story of her grandmother's journey from India. extracted from silencen.int. < as lemmas
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