silence
美 [?sa?l?ns] 
英 ['sa?l?ns]
- n.沉默；寂靜；無(wú)聲；緘默
- v.壓制；使安靜；使不說(shuō)話
- int.靜下來(lái)
- 網(wǎng)絡(luò)深情密碼；靜默；靜音
詞形變化
復(fù)數(shù)：silences 現(xiàn)在分詞：silencing 過(guò)去式：silenced 反義詞
同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | [u] 寂靜；無(wú)聲a complete lack of noise or sound |
| Their footsteps echoed in the silence. 他們的腳步聲在一片寂靜中回蕩著。 |
| A scream broke the silence of the night. 一聲尖叫劃破了寂靜的夜晚。 |
| I need absolute silence when I'm working. 我工作時(shí)需要絕對(duì)的安靜。 |
2. | [c][u] 沉默；緘默；默不作聲a situation when nobody is speaking |
| an embarrassed/awkward silence 難堪╱尷尬的沉默 |
| a moment's stunned silence 一時(shí)驚愕得說(shuō)不出話來(lái) |
| I got used to his long silences. 我已習(xí)慣了他半天不說(shuō)話的樣子。 |
| They finished their meal in total silence . 他們默不作聲地吃完飯。 |
| She lapsed into silence again. 她又沉默下來(lái)。 |
| There was a deafening silence(= one that is very noticeable) . 四下里靜得刺耳。 |
| a two-minute silence in honour of those who had died 為死去的人默哀兩分鐘 |
3. | [u][sing] 緘默；緘口不談；拒絕回答a situation in which sb refuses to talk about sth or to answer questions |
| She broke her public silence in a TV interview. 她接受了一次電視采訪，就此結(jié)束了她不在公開(kāi)場(chǎng)合說(shuō)話的狀態(tài)。 |
| The company's silence on the subject has been taken as an admission of guilt. 公司在這個(gè)問(wèn)題上保持沉默被當(dāng)作是承認(rèn)有罪。 |
| the right to silence(= the legal right not to say anything when you are arrested) 沉默權(quán) |
| There is a conspiracy of silence about what is happening(= everyone has agreed not to discuss it) . 對(duì)于發(fā)生的事情，大家一致保持緘默。 |
4. | [u] 互相不通音信的情形；無(wú)書信（或電話）聯(lián)系a situation in which people do not communicate with each other by letter or telephone |
| The phone call came after months of silence. 幾個(gè)月沒(méi)有音信之后，打來(lái)了一個(gè)電話。 |
1. | ~ sb/sth 使安靜；使不說(shuō)話to make sb/sth stop speaking or making a noise |
| She silenced him with a glare. 她瞪了他一眼，他就不作聲了。 |
| Our bombs silenced the enemy's guns(= they destroyed them) . 我們的轟炸把敵人的炮火打啞了。 |
2. | ~ sb/sth 壓制，使不再發(fā)表（反對(duì)意見(jiàn)）to make sb stop expressing opinions that are opposed to yours |
| All protest had been silenced. 一切反對(duì)的聲音都被壓了下去。 |
| Her recent achievements have silenced her critics. 她近來(lái)取得的成果讓那些批評(píng)她的人無(wú)話可說(shuō)了。 |
1. | （用以讓人們安靜）安靜，靜下來(lái)used to tell people to be quiet |
| Silence in court! 法庭內(nèi)保持肅靜！ |
習(xí)慣用語(yǔ)
silence is golden
沉默是金it is often best not to say anything
英漢解釋
n. | 1. 沉默,無(wú)言;無(wú)表示;無(wú)聲,沉靜,肅靜,寂靜;【樂(lè)】停止 2. 忘卻,湮沒(méi);無(wú)表示;無(wú)音訊 |
v. | 1. 使(嘈雜聲音等)靜下來(lái);堵住...的嘴,使無(wú)言;使(敵人的炮臺(tái)等)沉默,打啞 2. 把...說(shuō)得無(wú)話可對(duì),使啞口無(wú)言;使停止;使安靜 |
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英英解釋
例句
Razing the Liuhe the Emperor's palace, was the silence of terracotta warriors guard the city, seems to be cold bronze.
掃平六合的始皇帝的宮闕，被兵馬俑拱衛(wèi)的沉默之城，似乎是青銅色的冷光。
I read an account of a man who made it to the summit. And standing there at the top of the world, he experienced this profound silence.
我以前看過(guò)有個(gè)登頂珠峰的人這樣寫道，在腳踏世界之巔的那刻，他才體會(huì)到無(wú)與倫比的寂靜。
The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me.
阿拉比這幾個(gè)字在靜默中向我呼喚，我的靈魂沉浸其間，被這種東方的魔力吸引。
The verdict will by no means silence those who recoil instinctively at the thought of two men or two women marrying.
該判決絕不會(huì)讓那些一想到兩個(gè)男人或兩個(gè)女人結(jié)婚就本能排斥的人就此沉默。
On this occasion, the ex-manager ate his as he went, plodding the dark streets in silence to his bed.
這一次，這位前經(jīng)理邊走邊吃，默默地拖著沉重的腳步走過(guò)夜色中的街道，回去睡覺(jué)。
As the play worked up to a climax, all the spectators held their breath and silence reigned through the hall.
當(dāng)那出戲逐漸達(dá)到高潮時(shí)，觀眾們個(gè)個(gè)屏息凝氣，整個(gè)大廳鴉雀無(wú)聲。
All that remained was a great garden of silence interrupted now and then by the sick woman's frightened moans.
只剩下一片廣大的寂靜之園，還有病弱的女人偶爾驚恐地呻吟幾聲打破岑寂。
On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence.
容德雷特獨(dú)自和他女人待在一道，又開(kāi)始在屋子里走起來(lái)，一聲不響地兜了兩三個(gè)圈子。
His Uncle sat looking at him for some time in silence.
他的舅舅坐在那里默默地看了他一些時(shí)候。
then the television set went off . Bonnie began to cry . " Shut up , honey , " Evey said . There was a silence .
接著電視給關(guān)上了。邦尼開(kāi)始哭了起來(lái)?！?c>別哭了，寶貝，”埃維說(shuō)。一陣寂靜。
When curiosity seems to be getting the upper hand, remember that "Silence is golden. "
當(dāng)好奇心蠢蠢欲動(dòng)時(shí)，切記這句話：“沉默是金?！?/jz>
He had once thought to gouge it out, but that had been a long time ago, and as time passed in the silence of the Waste, he had forgotten.
他曾經(jīng)想過(guò)把這個(gè)標(biāo)志挖去，但那是很久以前的事了。在寂靜的荒野地，隨著時(shí)間的流逝，他逐漸忘記了。
When the ban came into force at midnight, correspondents said there was a moment's silence, before the square erupted in cheers.
當(dāng)午夜禁令開(kāi)始執(zhí)行的時(shí)候，記者說(shuō)那一刻非常寧?kù)o，之后廣場(chǎng)爆發(fā)出歡呼聲。
The game lacked a bit of spark due to the silence. On the positive side, we are more used to playing on this kind of pitch than Celtic.
但是在積極方面看來(lái)，我們應(yīng)該更習(xí)慣在像凱爾特人主場(chǎng)這樣的場(chǎng)地上比賽。
The silence represents my mistake, bids good-bye is not the only result, I only am had not thought how good should say to you.
沉默不是代表我的錯(cuò)，分手不是唯一的結(jié)果，我只是還沒(méi)有想好該怎么對(duì)你說(shuō)。
It wounded his dignity, and he locked himself up in silence, then, although the crowd begged him to go on.
這也太傷他的體面了；他閉口藏舌，再也不肯出聲，可是那群人還請(qǐng)求他往下說(shuō)。
I watched him climb the hill in silence. I expected him to come the next day but he did not come.
我默默注視他爬上山。第二天我想他還會(huì)來(lái)，但他沒(méi)有。
Perhaps the next time he suggests a night out, I can persuade him to see a film, so we can sit in blissful silence in the cinema instead.
可能下次他建議晚上出去，我就可以建議他去看場(chǎng)電影，這樣的話我們就可以坐在電影院享受令人陶醉的沉默啦。
It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a delicious sense of repose and peace in the deep pervading calm and silence of the woods.
此時(shí)正值涼爽的、灰蒙蒙的黎明時(shí)分，林子里一片靜謐，給一種甜蜜的安息與和平的氣氛圍擾著。
No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb!
我敲墻的回響余音未寂，就聽(tīng)得墓冢里發(fā)出一下聲音！
He listened to the starter retching and retching, the racing of the engine, and then the slow decline to silence.
他聽(tīng)著汽車的起動(dòng)器干嘔了兩聲，接著馬達(dá)發(fā)動(dòng)起來(lái)，聲音逐漸消失在遠(yuǎn)處。
They crept on for a few minutes in silence.
她們在沉默中緩緩地走了幾分鐘。
The volcano spurts smoke and lave after 3 years of silence.
平靜了三年的火山突然噴出濃煙和熔巖。
They stood in silence in the open kitchen door, she struggling against her tears, he struggling against his shame.
他們默默地站在敞開(kāi)的廚房門口，她在努力克制自己的淚水；他在使勁抑制自己的羞愧之心。
There was silence, all eyes riveted on him.
靜悄悄的，所有眼睛都盯著他。
He found that silence helped him much more than words.
他發(fā)現(xiàn)，默不作聲對(duì)他倒更有利。
Darkness and silence ruled everywhere around.
昏暗和寂靜，統(tǒng)治了四周。
This time the silence was complete.
這下孩子們都鴉雀無(wú)聲。
The silence that followed seemed unnatural.
接著便是異乎尋常的寂靜。
The little girl was awed into silence.
那小女孩被嚇得不敢做聲了。
They ate their dinner quietly, for to all it was an effort to speak, and after one or two attempts they had subsided into silence.
他們靜靜地吃著，因?yàn)?/c>每個(gè)人都覺(jué)得不易開(kāi)口，勉強(qiáng)說(shuō)了一兩句，大家便不作聲了。
She stared back at him in silence, not knowing what to say.
她靜靜地看著他，不知該說(shuō)什么。
It wounded his dignity, and he locked himself up in silence, then, although the crowd begged him to go on.
這也太傷他的體面了；他閉口藏舌，再也不肯出聲，可是那群人還請(qǐng)求他往下說(shuō)。
Polly knew that she was being watched but still her mother's persistent silence could not be misunderstood.
波莉知道自己受到監(jiān)視，即使母親始終保持沉默，她的用意還是不言而喻的。
That burdened heart of his would not be still, would not let him keep silence--would not let him breathe until he cried again.
他那顆深受壓抑的心不會(huì)平靜下來(lái)，不會(huì)讓他沉默下去--直等到他再一次哭喊起來(lái)它才會(huì)允許他呼吸。
I am determined to find out the secret of her silence toward her mother.
我得弄明白她為什么對(duì)她母親守口如瓶。
The silence on the top level was oppressive, and I thought it my duty to break the ice.
最高一級(jí)官員的緘默是令人難堪的，因而我認(rèn)為我應(yīng)當(dāng)打破這個(gè)沉悶局面。
His voice trailed off into silence as he looked absently about the walls and Scarlett understood him.
他的聲音漸漸消失，一面有意無(wú)意地看看四周的墻壁，思嘉莉特懂得他的意思。
Her voice came to him now from out of a deep, far-away silence and he paid her no heed.
她的聲音這時(shí)候仿佛從很遠(yuǎn)很深的寂靜中傳到他耳里，他置之不理。
There was a strange little silence in her.
她蹊蹺地沉默了片刻。
She contemplated him in silence.
她默默地注視著他。
They went for a little in silence, and then he saw she was crying.
他們默不作聲地走了一會(huì)兒，然后他看到了她在哭哩。
They're trying to wear us down by silence.
他們是想用沉默來(lái)拖垮我們。
In silence her thoughts would take the colour of his own.
她的思想能在靜默中受到他的影響。
The party broke up in silence and dismay.
這次的集會(huì)就在沉默和憂郁的氣氛中散場(chǎng)。
The old man and the child passed on through the glad silence.
老人和女孩在這種愉快的沉寂里前進(jìn)。
A fine sound pierced the silence.
寂靜中響起了一種細(xì)小的聲音。
She weighed that remark in silence for a while.
她默默地揣摸了一會(huì)兒這話的意思。
The soup came and the two men ate in silence for a while.
湯端上來(lái)了，兩人默默地喝了一會(huì)兒。
In silence her eyes met Scarlett's.
默默無(wú)聲地，她的眼睛遇到了思嘉莉特的眼睛。
And out of that silence, out of the order comes compassion, because it has no cause.
從那寂靜，從那秩序中產(chǎn)生了慈悲，因?yàn)?/c>它沒(méi)有原因。
He rose abruptly, rammed his hands into his pockets, and stood facing the window; she looked at his back in a long silence.
他突然站起來(lái)，把雙手塞進(jìn)褲袋里。他面對(duì)窗子站著。她望著他的背，久久地默不作聲。
He said he had the right to silence during the police interrogations.
他說(shuō)警察審問(wèn)時(shí)他有權(quán)保持沉默。
And with everyone getting louder, this silence - or not communicating for any length of time - has become even more of a sacred commodity.
在人類日漸喧嘩的今天，沉默，或是不花費(fèi)任何時(shí)間用來(lái)交談，已經(jīng)成為了神圣的代名詞。
For some time he continued to sit in silence. Then he looked up, lifted those hands calmly, judiciously, and nodded his head.
他靜靜地又坐了一會(huì)兒，然后抬起頭來(lái)，安詳地、有見(jiàn)地地舉起了雙手，點(diǎn)了點(diǎn)頭。
Mrs. Clinton's Senate office broke a week of silence to acknowledge the talks but cautioned that they had not been made final.
參議員希拉里的工作組近日終于打破沉默，承認(rèn)談判仍在進(jìn)行中，不過(guò)他們該沒(méi)有做好最后決定。
An act like this is prepared within the silence of the heart, as is a great work of art.
同偉大的藝術(shù)作品一樣，如此的行為醞釀于心中的沉寂。
After all, people in this middle of the night silence of the night, who would knock her to move the new tenants of the door?
畢竟，在這夜深人寂的夜里，有誰(shuí)會(huì)來(lái)敲她這個(gè)新搬住戶的房門？
The wind and snow all over the sky on a winter romance, the noise of the world into silence again.
漫天的風(fēng)雪講述著冬夜的浪漫，喧囂的世界再次陷入沉寂。
The dwarf's sudden silence went unnoticed, as Duck had begun to regale him with his own life story.
侏儒突然的沉寂沒(méi)被注意，同時(shí)鴨子開(kāi)始了他自己生活經(jīng)歷的吹擂。
When I had lain awake a little while, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems, began to make themselves audible.
我睜著雙眼無(wú)眠地躺了一會(huì)兒，在寂靜之中又出現(xiàn)了奇怪的響聲，一切東西都在低語(yǔ)。
We waited respectfully for her to break the silence.
我們尊重地等待她打破沉寂。
So I signalled with my hand and gave her that stare to silence her, I did not want her to disrupt the meeting. . .
我就做了一些手勢(shì)和打個(gè)眼色，要她安靜，不要騷擾聚會(huì)…
Nobody gave and answer . Only the pious said she was a bad woman. While some of the good women kept silence. They knew.
無(wú)人解開(kāi)謎底，只有那些教徒們說(shuō)她是不忠的女人，但一些本份的女人卻保持緘默，其實(shí)她們心里明白。
After another period of gentle back rubbing and silence, I said I was glad to have learned so much from the world's expert back rubbers.
送回來(lái)后，又揉和沉默了一段時(shí)間，我說(shuō)我很高興學(xué)到了來(lái)自世界各地的專家回橡膠多。
''I began to leave my body; I began to inhabit the air and silence.
我離開(kāi)了我的身體；我開(kāi)始在空氣中無(wú)聲地飄蕩著。
Her voice changed long again and I immediately hinted other colleagues around the office to keep silence.
她說(shuō)著說(shuō)著聲音又變了，拖長(zhǎng)了。我立即示意辦公室的其他同事，不要說(shuō)話。
After an awkward silence, Lisa completely flushed and with her head down started to talk.
經(jīng)過(guò)了一陣難堪的沉默之后，麗莎的臉已經(jīng)羞得通紅。她低垂著頭開(kāi)始說(shuō)話。
Silence for a period of time, the company seems to let us see its past glories of time.
沉寂了一段時(shí)間的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)公司，似乎讓我們看到了其昔日輝煌的光景。
Sometimes, he would also sit in silence, absorbed in his own thoughts. I wondered what was going through his mind?
有時(shí)也會(huì)靜靜的坐在那兒有所沉思，他在思索些什么呢？
They digested this in silence, looking up at her, puzzled.
她們把這話默默咀嚼了一會(huì)兒，抬起頭朝她看了看，現(xiàn)出了疑惑的神色。
His breathing sounded heavy in the drowsy silence.
在一片困人的沉寂中，他的呼吸聽(tīng)上去很沉重。
Silence thickened in the sleeping house.
沉睡的房子更加寂靜。
The silence was not very prolonged.
沉默的僵局很快被打破了。
A desert is a beautiful land of silence and space.
沙漠是一片美麗的大地，沉寂、遼闊。
How would you translate his silence?
對(duì)他的沉默你將做何解釋呢？
We had to work at night and in total silence.
我們必須在夜間干，而且絕對(duì)不能發(fā)出響聲。
She broke the silence by coughing.
她的咳嗽聲打破了寂靜。
Mauna Loa awoke from a 25-year silence in July 1975, filling its summit-pit crater with lava.
莫納羅亞火山在1975年7月又從沉睡了25年的狀態(tài)下蘇醒過(guò)來(lái)了，山頂上的火山口充滿了熔巖。
They crossed the river by a ferry, and rode long time in silence, while the twilight slowly fell behind the aspens.
他們乘一只擺渡船過(guò)了河，默不作聲地騎了一大段路，那時(shí)候，暮色慢慢地落在白楊樹(shù)的后面了。
