silence

第三人称单数：

动词第三人称单数: silences

更多词形：

动词过去式: silenced | 动词过去分词: silenced | 动词现在分词: silencing | 动词第三人称单数: silences |

单词例句：

Speech is silver, silence is gold.

能言是银，沉默是金。

For a while they all kept silence.

有一会儿，他们都保持沉默。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

They all maintained a reverent silence.

他们都保持肃静。

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。