silent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 寂静， 沉默的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although well used to ghostly company by this time, Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trem-bled beneath him, and he found that he could hardly stand when he prepared to follow it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some minutes of silent work had passed: and the haggard eyes had looked up again: not with any interest or curiosity, but with a dull mechanical perception, beforehand, that the spot where the only visitor they were aware of had stood, was not yet empty.
-- Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance.
-- Your manners have been of that silent and sullen and hang-dog kind, that, upon my life and soul, I have been ashamed of you, Sydney!'
-- Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impel-ling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever.
-- As its silent track in the water disappeared, the prayer 449that had broken up out of his heart for a merciful consid-eration of all his poor blindnesses and errors, ended in the words, 'I am the resurrection and the life.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch was silent a minute.
-- Chapter 11 Levin emptied his glass, and they were silent for a while.
-- You are one of those delightful women in whose company it's sweet to be silent as well as to talk.
-- He was silent for a little, drew out a hook, threw it in again, and turned to his brother smiling.
-- "But do tell me, please, I never could make it out," said Anna, after being silent for some time, speaking in a tone that showed she was not asking an idle question, but that what she was asking was of more importance to her than it should have been; "do tell me, please, what are her relations with Prince Kaluzhsky, Mishka, as he's called?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He often won at this game, which, as a silent one, harmonised with his nature; but his winnings never went into his purse, being reserved as a fund for his charities.
-- His young companion felt herself more and more attached to him by other ties than gratitude; his silent but generous nature impressed her more than she thought; and it was almost unconsciously that she yielded to emotions which did not seem to have the least effect upon her protector.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In an equally silent tongue Mrs. Fox answered him, till the room was thick with their antagonism, while they seemed to be discussing the weather, the University, and the trolley service into Zenith.
-- They crowd the smoking cars at night; they sit silent on benches in filthy stations; they know all the land yet of it they know nothing, because in a hundred cities they see only the employment agencies, the all-night lunches, the blind-pigs, the scabrous lodging-houses.
-- Sometimes, at midnight, just as he began to realize that he was hungry, he would find that a plate of sandwiches had by silent magic appeared at his elbow.
-- Clif was never willingly alone or silent except when he was asleep.
-- Robbed of her silent assuring presence on which night by weary night he had depended, he fretted over his daughters, despaired at their noisy piano-practice, their inability to manage the slattern maid.
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：
-- But no one shared his enjoyment: his silent compan-ion looked with positive hostility and mistrust at all these manifestations.
-- Nastasya scrutinised him, silent and frowning, and her scrutiny lasted a long time.
-- All were silent for a while.
-- But no sound came, all was dead and silent like the stones on which he walked, dead to him, to him alone芒聙娄.
-- Halfway down the staircase he was overtaken by the priest on his way home; Raskolnikov let him pass, exchanging a silent greeting with him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- asked Miss Betsey, when shehad been silent for a little while, and these motions of her head hadgradually ceased.
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