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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Peggotty said nothingfor a little while, and I warmed my hands, as silent as she.
-- It cost mesome trouble to find out Salem House; but I found it, and found ahaystack in the corner, and I lay down by it; having first walkedround the wall, and looked up at the windows, and seen that allwas dark and silent within.
-- The daughterhad sat quite silent and still during this speech, with her eyes fixed 230on the ground; her cousin standing near her, and looking on theground too.
-- 251CHAPTER XVIIIA RetrospectMY school-days!The silent gliding on of my existence- the unseen,unfelt progress of my life- from childhood up to youth!Let methink, as I look back upon that flowing water, now a dry channelovergrown with leaves, whether there are any marks along itscourse, by which I can remember how it ran.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And for a little while she hoped he would not talk of it, and that a silent rumination might suffice to restore him to the relish of his own smooth gruel.
-- Poor Mr. Woodhouse was silent from consternation; but every body else had something to say; every body was ei-ther surprized or not surprized, and had some question to ask, or some comfort to offer.
-- I am sure he was particularly silent when Mrs. Cole told us of it at dinner.'
-- She and Mrs. Weston were obliged to be al-most always either talking together or silent together.
-- Harriet kissed her hand in silent and submissive gratitude.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ring of the sheep-bell, which had been silent during his absence, recommenced, in tones that had more mellowness than clearness, owing to an increasing growth of surrounding wool.
-- Her countenance fell, and she was silent awhile.
-- Then she was silent and shivered.
-- He faced the south-east, and was as silent as he was still.
-- Bathsheba was far from dreaming that the dark and silent shape upon which she had so carelessly thrown a seed was a hotbed of tropic intensity.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the first time that he had attempted to spend the night in this way in that silent quarter.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is so; but then he is wholly uneducated: he is as silent as a Turk, and a kind of ignorant carelessness attends him, which, while it renders his conduct the more astonishing, detracts from the interest and sympathy which otherwise he would command.
-- The stranger has gradually improved in health but is very silent and appears uneasy when anyone except myself enters his cabin.
-- But he was silent and presently retired to his cabin.
-- I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly if I except some bat, or the frogs, whose harsh and interrupted croaking was heard only when I approached the shore of-ten, I say, I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forev-er.
-- 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.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scarlett was silent and her heart sank.
-- Carreen,sitting on a hassock under the big lamp, was deep in the romance of a girl who had taken the veil after her lover'sdeath and, with silent tears of enjoyment oozing from her eyes, was pleasurably picturing herself in a white coif.
-- Her heart was quieter now and she tiptoed up the steps into the silent hall.
-- Afterward she remembered, as from a dream, the hundreds of candles flaring on the walls, hermother's face, loving, a little bewildered, her lips moving in a silent prayer for her daughter's happiness, Geraldflushed with brandy and pride that his daughter was marrying both money, a fine name and an old one and Ashley,standing at the bottom of the steps with Melanie's arm through his.
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