缄默

He retained a great deal of the reserve for which his boyhood was remarkable.

他还保留不少在他童年时就很显著的缄默.

We should not pass over this disgraceful affair in silence.

我们不应对这件可耻的事保持缄默.

They had bribed her into silence.

他们贿赂她使其保持缄默.

I felt the reasons for your silence, and I feared to seem importunate, by writing.

我感觉到你保持缄默事出有因, 给你写信会使你觉得我纠缠不休.

Her strategic silence confirmed his suspicion.

她出于战略的缄默,证实他猜着了.

Note how Telemachus in the Odyssey silences his mother.

只要读一下《奥德赛》,就可以看到特里曼珠是怎样打断他母亲的话并要求她缄默.

They tried to buy his silence, ie to pay him not to reveal a secret.

他们想收买他让他保持缄默(不泄露秘密).

I admonished him of the need for silence.

我提醒他缄默的必要.

Silent, mournful, abandoned , broken , Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness.

缄默的 、 悲哀的 、 被抛弃的 、 支离破碎的捷克斯洛伐克,已在黑暗之中.

Detectives have run into a conspiracy of silence in the tight-knit communities of the peninsula.

侦探们犯了难，半岛上各个群体抱成一团，达成了保持缄默的密约。

And it was possible that her reserve concealed a very deep feeling.

在她的缄默后面也可能隐藏着深挚的感情.

He couldn't pierce her ( cold ) reserve.

他没能打破她 ( 冷淡 ) 的缄默.

And the Mafia cemented its power by originating the law of silence, the omerta.

黑帮采用缄默法, 即所谓守口如瓶的原则,加强了自己的权力.

The officials maintained a wall of silence around the talks.

官员们对于会谈情况保持缄默.

Her manners were attaching and soon banished his reserve.

她的风度是令人喜悦的,因此很快就消除了他的缄默.