silence是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 寂静， 沉默v. 使沉默， 使安静，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I feel the greatest regret at finding you in this situation,' he began, again breaking the silence with an effort.
-- Silence lasted for some seconds.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Silence yourself,' said Steerforth, turning red.
-- There was a titter, and some applause, but Mr. Mell was so white,that silence immediately succeeded; and one boy, who had dartedout behind him to imitate his mother again, changed his mind, andpretended to want a pen mended.
-- What meals I had in silence and embarrassment, always feelingthat there were a knife and fork too many, and those mine; anappetite too many, and that mine; a plate and chair too many, andthose mine; a somebody too many, and that I!
-- Silence ensued, and I was considering how I could bestdisengage my shoulder from his hand, and go away, when hesaid'I suppose you are a pretty sharp fellow still?
-- There were two great aloes, in tubs, on the turfoutside the windows; the broad hard leaves of which plant(looking as if they were made of painted tin) have ever since, byassociation, been symbolical to me of silence and retirement.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a mutual silence of some minutes, Harriet thus began again 'I do so wonder, Miss Woodhouse, that you should not be married, or going to be married!so charming as you are!
-- After a few minutes of entire silence between them, John Knightley began with 'I never in my life saw a man more intent on being agree-able than Mr. Elton.
-- She was too completely overpowered to be immediately able to reply: and two moments of silence being ample encour-agement for Mr. Elton's sanguine state of mind, he tried to take her hand again, as he joyously exclaimed 'Charming Miss Woodhouse!allow me to interpret this interesting silence.
-- She knows their ways best; but I should not consider their silence as any reason for their not meaning to make the present.
-- She merely said, in the course of some trivial chat, 'Well, Har-riet, whenever you marry I would advise you to do so and so' and thought no more of it, till after a minute's silence 414 Emmashe heard Harriet say in a very serious tone, 'I shall never marry.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba dropped into a silence intended to express that she had opinions on the matter too abstruse for Liddy's comprehension, rather than that she had nothing to say.
-- The silence grew to be a noticeable thing as the minutes went on, and nobody else appeared, and not a soul moved.
-- The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.
-- Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
-- His mistress came up and looked upon them in silence for a minute or two; then she said "Cain, go to the lower mead and catch the bay mare.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This position is sufficient to account for the silence prevalent in the streets shut in between the dome of the Pantheon and the dome of the Val-de-Grace, two conspicuous public buildings which give a yellowish tone to the landscape and darken the whole district that lies beneath the shadow of their leaden-hued cupolas.
-- de Restaud's side, when a sort of sigh, like the grunt of an overburdened St. Joseph, broke the silence of the night.
-- For several minutes the silence remained unbroken till the law student became almost paralyzed with embarrassment, and was equally afraid to go or stay or speak a word.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She busied herself with following the aerial creations of the poets; and in the majestic and wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home the sublime shapes of the mountains, the changes of the sea- sons, tempest and calm, the silence of winter, and the life and turbulence of our Alpine summers she found ample scope for admiration and delight.
-- The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial nature was broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche or the cracking, reverber-ated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands.
-- Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.
-- 158 Frankenstein 'I sat down, and a silence ensued.
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