silence
They all maintained a reverent silence.
他们都保持肃静。
I hope you were never put by my long silence.
我希望你不会因为我好久不给你写信而感到不愉快。
I hope you were never put out by my long silence.
我希望你不曾因为我好久不给你写信而感到担心。
That evening has an ominous silence.
那晚有着不祥的寂静。
After supper the quarrel lapsed into silence.
晚饭后争吵逐渐平息下来了。
There was nothing but silence in the room.
这间屋内声息全无，一片寂静。
The sudden sound of footsteps in silence made her blood run cold.
静寂中突然响起脚步声使她感到毛骨悚然。
She interpret his silence as arrogance.
她把他的沉默解释为傲慢。
For a while they all kept silence.
有一会儿，他们都保持沉默。
There is unbroken silence in the woods.
林中一直静寂无声。
A terrible silence descended upon the whole hall.
一阵可怕的寂静突然笼罩着整个厅堂。
Silence often implies consent.
沉默往往表示默许。
Only the whir of the air conditioner broke the silence in the office.
打破办公室内寂静的，只有空气调节机呼呼的转动声。
They stood in silence as a mark of honour to her.
他们肃立向她致敬。
Speech is silver; silence is golden.
[谚]雄辩是银，沉默是金。
All of a sudden a piercing scream broke the silence.
突然，刺耳的尖叫声打破了寂静。
The investigators were confronted by a wall of silence.
调查人员碰了壁，谁也不回答他们的问题。
His silence portends trouble.
他沉默不语不是好兆头。
Silence must not always be read as consent.
沉默不能总理解为同意。
We interpreted his silence as a refusal.
我们认为他的沉默是拒绝的表示。
The teacher's stern look reduced him to silence.
教师神情严肃，他便静了下来。
No sound disturbed the silence of the evening.
入夜时分，万籁俱寂。
A patient throng was waiting in silence.
一大群人耐心地静候着。
Speech is fractional; silence is integral.
讲话是分数; 沉默是整数。
Speech is silver, silence is gold.
能言是银，沉默是金。
I translated her silence as assent.
我认为她沉默不语就是同意了。
For many years there was no closeness between us. The silence took its toll.
两国关系曾经疏远了许多年，两国为此付出了代价。
She stared him into silence.
她把他盯得不吭声了。
The chairman ordered silence.
主席要大家安静。
His forceful arguments reduced his opponents to silence.
他那有力的论点驳得对手哑口无言。
The silence was succeeded by the striking of a clock.
时钟鸣响声打破了寂静。
She raised her finger to her lips as a sign for silence.
她举起一根手指放在唇边，示意肃静。
His silence implied agreement.
他沉默不语意味着同意了。
The shipwrecked sailor spent a year of enforced silence alone on a desert island.
沉船遇难后，水手被迫寂寞地在荒岛上度过了一年。
"What else do you see?" asked the captain after a moment of silence.
"你还看见什么？"上尉沉默了片刻后又问。
After a few minutes silence, they perked up and argued enthusiastically again.
沉默了几分钟之后，他们活跃起来，又热烈辩论开了。
The bus driver broke the silence, by calling attention to a waterfall of great beauty, in the rocky dell.
大客车驾驶员打破沉默，开口说话，让大家看山间壮丽的瀑布。
Macaulay have occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
麦考莱时或有刹那间的沉默，这使他的谈话更加动听。
I could not stand it in silence any more and disclosed it to my best friend.
我再也不能默默忍受，把这件事告诉了我的好朋友。
After a few minutes' silence, they perked up and argued enthusiastically again.
沉默了几分钟以后，他们活跃起来，又热烈辩论开了。
I am like the road in the night listening to the footfalls of its memories in silence.
我象那夜间之路，正静悄悄地谛听着记忆的足音。
He was apt to blurt out the whole truth, in cases where other people would have kept silence.
他常常直言不讳地说出全部真情，而其他人在这种情况下则往往会保持沉默。
The hooting of an owl broke the silence now and again, giving Linda the creeps.
猫头鹰的叫声不时打破寂静，使琳达心惊肉跳。
Her grandfather is a tyrant who insists on absolute silence at the dinner table.
她祖父是个专横的人，坚持吃饭时绝对禁止讲话。
As the play worked up to a climax, all the spectators held their breath and silence reigned through the hall.
当那出戏逐渐达到高潮时，观众们个个屏息凝气，整个大厅鸦雀无声。
In the dusk of the evening the bird of some early dawn comes to the nest of my silence.
在黄昏的微光里，有那清晨的鸟儿来到了我的沉默的鸟巢里。
After a year's silence (ie a year during which she didn't write), I got a letter from her.
她沉默了一年之後，又给我来了一封信。
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fool the world has has ever produced nothing to say on the subject.
人言沉默是金，但这世界出产的顶尖蠢才们则对这问题未见有话说过。
But silence was not dear to the heart of the Honourable John, and so he took up the running.
但是沉默并不合约翰少爷的心意，因此，他就决心表示主动，先开口。
There was an embarrassing silence after her indiscreet remark but she was able to laugh it off.
她出言不慎把大家窘得哑然无声，她却有本事一笑置之。