| 单词 | silent |
| 释义 | si·lent I. 1. a. < stared at the Pacific … silent, upon a peak in Darien — John Keats > b. < he laughed and chattered, but she was silent, seeming to brood over something — D.H.Lawrence > < the silent suspect, refusing to answer the police > 2. < a silent room > < a silent audience > < a silent forest > 3. a. < the banquet, at first so silent, slowly changes to a merry tumult — Lafcadio Hearn > < silent protest must at length come to words — Thomas Carlyle > < silent reading > < silent prayer > b. < suffering in silent grief > 4. a. < on the crucial point of enforcement methods the assembly resolution is silent — Ruth Lawson > < did not tell us that logic is to be ignored when experience is silent — B.N.Cardozo > < remained silent on the reasons for the change > b. < the secretary's silent role in the conspiracy > c. < the railways might well be said to render a silent service — O.S.Nock > < new ways of life developing under the silent pressure of a freer environment — V.L.Parrington > d. < a silent member of a firm > — compare silent partner e. < this humbug of the judge as a soulless automaton whose mind and heart are silent when he performs his operations — H.J.Laski > 5. < silent b in doubt > < silent ph in phthisis > or which serves as a conventional indicator of the quality of another letter without itself being pronounced < silent e in pine shows that the i has the value \ī\ rather than the value \i\ in pin > 6. a. < a silent volcano > b. (1) < a silent bone fracture > < silent heat in cattle > : causing no symptoms < silent gallstones > < silent tuberculosis > (2) < the silent phase of a tumor > (3) 7. 8. a. b. < the silent screen > < Hollywood in the great days of the silent stars — Budd Schulberg > 9. < a silent dog whistle > Synonyms: < a silent man with a great sense of his personal worth which made his speeches guarded — Joseph Conrad > < was very silent during the speech and … had listened attentively — George Meredith > reticent indicates reluctance to speak out induced either by cautious discreetness or by shy lack of assertiveness < almost reticent in his stingy use of words exactly chiseled out of the moment's need — W.A.White > < about his own experiences … was inclined to be reticent … because he considered them, as he put it, uninteresting — Kenneth Roberts > reserved describes speaking or acting under the restraining influence of caution or formality checking easy unguarded expression < I wished that she had told me frankly … Jane was always so reserved — Rose Macaulay > < even the reserved Washington wrote caustically of their bad manners — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > taciturn suggests a deep and accustomed disinclination to talk much; it may connote the unsociable or the laconic < he had become more and more gloomy and taciturn. Mills tried in vain to draw him into talk — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > < always taciturn, he now hardly spoke at all — Stuart Cloete > uncommunicative indicates an unwillingness to impart information < an atomic scientist quite uncommunicative about his work > close indicates a general disposition to keep information from being revealed < will confide in nobody … every one feels that he is emphatically close — J.H.Newman > < you're a close one, but you give yourself away sometimes — Willa Cather > closed-mouthed and close-lipped have about the same suggestions as close, although they are more likely to be used in reference to matters confidential or secret < a millionaire's close-mouthed confidential secretary > < a duke's close-lipped adviser > tight-lipped may suggest resolute or determined silence about a specific matter < company officials, all tight-lipped about the uranium thefts > secretive suggests either a disposition towards carefully guarding secrets or undue caution or concealment about less important matters < you're so excessively secretive that I can't help being curious — Dashiell Hammett > II. 1. obsolete < the silent of the night — Shakespeare > 2. silents plural < some primitive Western of the silents, at which you were supposed to laugh — Edmund Wilson > < in the days of the silents — Alfred Kazin > III. < silent DNA > < silent genes > |
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