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 silent ['sailәnt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 沉默的, 安静的, 无声的, 静止的

[医] 静止的, 无症状的




    silent
    [ adj ]
    1. marked by absence of sound

      2. <adj.all>
      a silent house
      soundless footsteps on the grass
      the night was still
    2. failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to

      3. <adj.all>
      the witness remained silent
    3. implied by or inferred from actions or statements

      4. <adj.all>
      gave silent consent
      a tacit agreement
      the understood provisos of a custody agreement
    4. not made to sound

      5. <adj.all>
      the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'
      in French certain letters are often unsounded
    5. having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility

      6. <adj.all>
      a silent dog whistle
    6. unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

      7. <adj.all>


    Silent \Si"lent\, a. [L. silens, -entis, p. pr. of silere to be
    silent; akin to Goth. ana-silan.]
    1. Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly
    quiet.

    How silent is this town! --Shak.

    2. Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute;
    taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.

    Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most
    silent of men. --Broome.

    This new-created world, whereof in hell
    Fame is not silent. --Milton.

    3. Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed; as, the wind
    is silent. --Parnell. Sir W. Raleigh.

    4. (Pron.) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e
    is silent in ``fable.''

    5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. [R.]

    Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead. --Sir W.
    Raleigh.

    {Silent partner}. See {Dormant partner}, under {Dormant}.

    Syn: Mute; taciturn; dumb; speechless; quiet; still. See
    {Mute}, and {Taciturn}.


    Silent \Si"lent\, n.
    That which is silent; a time of silence. [R.] ``The silent of
    the night.'' --Shak.

    1. But executive producer Pierre Cossette, who has been doing Grammy shows almost since the golden age of silent television, fashioned a well-paced evening.
    2. A silent majority in both countries still respects and has friendly feelings toward the other, critical sentiments notwithstanding.
    3. Eli Lilly was understandably silent about its PCS acquisition because the purchase is yet to be completed.
    4. Kevin falls forward and is silent.
    5. Demonstrators planned to be out in force Inauguration Day, along with the National Organization for Women, which has scheduled a silent protest along the parade route.
    6. A lone fishing boat, dwarfed by the crippled hulk of the tanker, circled in silent protest as the ship was pulled from its protected anchorage at Outside Bay on Naked Island.
    7. Earlier on, preparing for her seduction of Sloane, Kath puts on some easy-listening music; and only when Act 1 ends on their sex does the record get stuck in a silent groove.
    8. Curiously the bid speculation is fuelled above all by the company's own behaviour: the outside world is strangely silent.
    9. Woods opened Monday's council meeting and led a silent prayer, then announced his resignation, effective immediately.
    10. The crowd fell silent at the sound of the pitch hitting Conigliaro's face, recalled Dick Dew, who was a sportswriter covering the game.
    11. David Thomson, the publicity-shy heir to the Thomson media empire, is characteristically silent on why he cashed in about $95 million worth of stock in his family's flagship companies.
    12. Then Channel 4 screened the movie for a national audience in Britain. Since then Kevin Brownlow and David Gill have continued their meticulous work on classics of the silent cinema.
    13. Old brick-built workshops nearby are empty and silent. It is a scene familiar from other former shipyard towns in northern Europe. But just across from the dry dock is a sight that makes the plight of Uddevalla especially poignant.
    14. Diplomats in Baghdad say that while a cease-fire may halt the shooting fairly soon, efforts to keep the guns silent could stretch on for years.
    15. The country was silent.
    16. Also silent on Black Manafort's conduct are President Bush and HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, both of whom received campaign advice from members of the firm.
    17. Likewise, the National Organization for Women is silent when it comes to generating support services for women who want to carry their babies to term.
    18. Much of the political agenda of the religious right _ including making abortion illegal, allowing tuition tax credits for private schools and silent prayer in public schools _ remains unfulfilled.
    19. The Svea Court of Appeals fell silent until Blom said, "Mrs. Palme nodded her head."
    20. The hostages had been tied up and forced to keep silent while aboard the Kuwait Airways jet, which was commandeered on a Bangkok-Kuwait flight and flown to Iran, Cyprus and Algeria during long days of tense negotiations.
    21. "Some liberal politicians decried our restrictions on drugs as conservative, moralistic, reactionary and old fashioned, or simply remained silent that there even was a drug problem," he said.
    22. Spawned by the Northern Hemisphere's most productive glacier 25 miles to the south, these mountains of ice break off with a thunderous roar and begin their silent arctic voyage.
    23. Three of them travel the country giving occasional organ recitals and playing at silent film festivals. Brubacher says he's the only surviving resident organist at a movie theater.
    24. "How long will America stand silent in the face of this abomination?
    25. The socalled "silent" line of trucks accounted for 20% of the company's sales outside of Germany in 1990 and were especially popular in Holland and the Benelux countries, a large percentage of whose businesses depend heavily on trans alpine trade.
    26. The speech, regarded as an important statement of policy in the wake of China's upheaval the past summer, was silent on the issue of political liberalization.
    27. Bush noted that his administration took a bit of a hammering in Congress and elsewhere for its go-slow, silent treatment of Mikhail S. Gorbachev's Soviet peace offensive.
    28. Pro-democracy activists who had marched noisily each week since early fall set aside bullhorns and banners Monday night for a silent vigil to honor the victims of Stalin.
    29. When one of the leading ladies of the evening turns up dead, Earp and Mix are plunged into a web of intrigue that leads to the doorstep of studio head Alfie Alperin (Malcolm McDowell), once a silent movie clown.
    30. "City Lights" was Chaplin's last silent movie.
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