释义 |
shtum /ʃtʊm /(also schtum) informal adjectiveSilent; non-communicative: he kept shtum about the fact that he was sent down for fraud...- He kept shtum and didn't embarrass her once for the following 11 years and, instead, contented himself with being an almost mute second fiddle to a woman of whom he was inordinately proud.
- I kept shtum that I had just completed a Politics degree under an America-obsessed Prof.
- I know you complain about me posting way too much for you to read, so, other than significant breaking news, I will keep shtum until at least Friday afternoon.
verb (shtums, shtumming, shtummed) [no object]Be or become quiet and non-communicative: you start to say something and then just when it’s getting interesting you shtum up...- This source was schtummed when Julia posted a scathing rebuke on the thread, really very angry.
- The possible risk being that she schtums and won't tell me the truth or just laughs in my face when I bring it up because it's apparently trivial.
- It's when it gets to the literature type of questions which totally schtums me, I mean I haven't got a clue.
Origin 1950s: Yiddish, from German stumm. |