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N-VAR
沉默;緘默;不作聲
If there is silence, nobody is speaking.
例句
They stood in silence...
他們默不作聲地站著。
He never lets those long silences develop during dinner...
他從不會讓晚餐時出現長時間的沉默。
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N-UNCOUNT
寂靜;無聲
The silence of a place is the extreme quietness there.
例句
...the silence of that rainless, all-concealing fog...
滴雨未下、隱藏一切的大霧靜默無聲
She breathed deeply, savouring the silence.
她深深地吸了口氣，細細品味著這寧靜。
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N-UNCOUNT
緘默;絕口不提;閉口不談
Someone's silence about something is their failure or refusal to speak to other people about it.
例句
The district court ruled that Popper's silence in court today should be entered as a plea of not guilty.
區法院裁定今天波珀在法庭上的緘默將被視作是進行無罪抗辯。
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VERB
使安靜;使無聲;使不說話
To silence someone or something means to stop them speaking or making a noise.
例句
A ringing phone silenced her...
響起的電話鈴聲讓她安靜了下來。
The shock silenced him completely.
他驚得啞口無言。
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VERB
制止，使不再發表(反對意見)
If someone silences you, they stop you expressing opinions that they do not agree with.
例句
Like other tyrants, he tried to silence anyone who spoke out against him.
像其他暴君一樣，他力圖壓制任何公開反對他的人。
...an unsuccessful attempt by the government to silence the debate.
政府試圖壓制爭論但未果
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VERB
殺…滅口
To silence someone means to kill them in order to stop them revealing something secret.
例句
A hit man had been sent to silence her over the affair.
為了掩蓋這件事，已經派出一名職業殺手去殺她滅口。