英语词汇“silence”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	silence
释义	si·lence I. \ˈsīlən(t)s\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin silentium, from silent-, silens silent 1. : the state of keeping or being silent : forbearance from speech or noise : muteness < that silence in the kitchen when, on a drowsy afternoon, the ticking of the clock would stop — Carson McCullers > < sat close together smoking contentedly and in silence — Fred Majdalany > < complete radio silence guarded whereabouts of the … powerful task force — K.M.Dodson > — often used interjectionally 2. a. : absence of sound : absence of noise < silence of midnight > b. : a general stillness : a relative stillness in which particular sounds may be distinctly heard < rooster would crow lingeringly in the sunny silence — Marjory S. Douglas > < starlings chattered in a rural silence — Aldous Huxley > 3. : absence of mention: a. : oblivion, obscurity < wrote it in the thirties of last century and after seventy years of silence someone gave it forth again — H.J.Laski > b. (1) : failure to make something known : tacit omission < in the silence of any positive rule it would be presumed that foreign corporations were by comity permitted to make contracts — Charles Fairman > < took advantage of the fundamental law's silence to twist it to their own purposes — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink > < the studied silences of the document as to the existence of God — W.L.Sperry > (2) : secrecy < broke the silence which has shrouded use of radar for aircraft navigation by the armed forces — David Mannheimer > c. : withholding from written communication < a decade of silence on the part of such a writer — M.D.Geismar > broadly : cessation of any state of communicativeness or productivity < producing sculptors of this authority after so long and heavy a silence — J.T.Soby > 4. a. : a period of being silent : a space of time marked by the cessation or absence of speech or of noises < a movie of waiting and of silences at the pithead and in the pit as the rescuers work their way toward the trapped men — Time > specifically : such a period observed in commemoration b. : rest 5 < elegiac meter of the poems (in which a silence takes the place of the last foot of the distich) — Madeleine S. & J.L.Miller > 5. a. usually capitalized : the state beyond death b. : death 6. : lack of flavor or odor in distilled spirits : flatness II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) *transitive verb* 1. : to compel or reduce to silence : cause to be still : stop the noise of : still < whatever specious arguments would silence an opponent — John Dewey > < the air intake must be silenced to some degree — R.L.Boyer > 2. a. : to restrain from the exercise of any function involving the expression of opinion; especially : to restrain from the act of preaching b. : to put down : repress, suppress < violent means were used to silence unwelcome opinions — R.P.Ludlum > < a nation that silences or intimidates original minds — H.S.Commager > 3. : to cause to cease hostile firing by return fire or bombing < silence the batteries of an enemy > < silenced the guns with hand grenades — P.W.Thompson > *intransitive verb* 1. : to become silent 2. : to cause silence < the common denominator silences and satisfies — B.N.Cardozo >
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