| 单词 | hush |
| 释义 | hush I. transitive verb 1. < sleep … hushed by solemn-sounding waterfalls — John Muir †1914 > < his movement hushed the courtroom — B.A.Williams > 2. < their protests are mild and … can be easily hushed — Paul Blanshard > < brings her flowers to hush his conscience > < his wife … serves him quickly and silently, hushing signs of disorder in the children — H.A.Overstreet > — often used with up < this contradiction is hushed up — L.A.Fiedler > 3. < police attempt to hush the crime — Books of the Month > — usually used with up < the story of her disgrace was hushed up — Edith Sitwell > < trying to hush it up, but it was plain suicide — Vicki Baum > intransitive verb < the crowd hushed, and she sang — Franc Shor > — used in the imperative to enjoin silence or urge moderation of sound < hush, baby, go to sleep > < hush, boys, the party's getting noisy > II. 1. < everything was … hush as midnight about the house — Laurence Sterne > 2. < hush money > < a hush policy concerning any faults … in the American economy — Jerome Frank > 3. or hushing III. 1. a. < sickroom hush > < cathedral hush of the deep woods > < a hush and a solemnity about the proceedings — Hugh Walpole > b. < after a time there came a profound hush and out of the stillness a woman's voice rose — Lyle Saxon > 2. < prompted the policy of hush in regard to the presence of the disease on their properties — Australasian > IV. intransitive verb dialect Britain transitive verb dialect England • hush·ing V. dialect Britain |
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