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单词 to fall silent
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to fall silent
P3. to fall silent: to stop speaking or making noise; to become silent. Hence: to cease operating.
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1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida i. iii. sig. D3 Since the innocent Are staind with guilt, when in contempt of Fate They silent fal.
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 488 The Winds fall silent; and the Waves decrease.
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) ii. v. 359 He fell silent; and after looking about the ceiling again, for a little while, looked down at her.
1928 Scotsman 10 Nov. 10/2 It is ten years since the Armistice was signed and the guns fell silent.
1976 Times 7 May 16/4 Suddenly the room fell silent and there rose to his feet the lugubrious figure of Christmas Humphreys, QC.
2019 Metro (Scotl. ed.) (Nexis) 13 May 29 British manufacturing began to decline and the factories fell silent.
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