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silent adjective VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION VERBSbe, seem 沉默;看似安静become, fall, go, grow 变得安静;陷入沉默◆The crowd fell silent as she began to speak.她开始说话时,人群安静了下来。◆The room grew silent as the men entered.这些人一进来房间里就变得鸦雀无声。keep, lie, remain, sit, stand, stay 保持沉默;一片寂静;静静地坐着;一言不发地站着◆I could not keep silent any longer.我再也不能保持沉默了。◆The street lay silent and deserted.街上空无一人,一片寂静。◆She sat silent throughout the meal.吃饭时她静静地坐着,没说一句话。ADVERBabsolutely, completely, dead (informal, especially NAmE) , entirely, perfectly, totally, utterly 寂静无声;鸦雀无声;死一样沉寂;万籁俱寂;很安静almost, nearly (especially NAmE) , virtually 几近无声◆The new bus is virtually silent.新公共汽车几乎没有噪声。largely, mostly 大部分人都保持沉默◆an issue about which the researchers are largely silent研究人员大都保持沉默的话题notably, remarkably 尤其/特别安静curiously, uncharacteristically, unusually 稀奇地安静;异样地沉默;不寻常地安静deadly, eerily, oddly, strangely, unnaturally 死一样地沉寂;可怕地沉寂;出奇地静;反常地安静◆The street was strangely silent.这条街道异常地安静。ominously 不祥地寂静◆This is a subject about which the official documents are ominously silent.这个话题官方文件避而不谈,不是个祥兆。resolutely, stubbornly 坚决不作声;固执地保持沉默◆Len remained resolutely silent.莱恩固执地一言不发。PREPOSITIONabout 就⋯保持缄默◆They had kept remarkably silent about their intentions.对于他们的意图,他们一直没有透露过一个字。on 对⋯只字不提◆The report was silent on that subject.报告对那个问题只字未提。 |