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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER X OVER THE WAFFLES next morning, Pittypat was lachrymose, Melanie was silent and Scarlett defiant.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My sister had been standing silent in the yard, within hearing,--she was a most unscrupulous spy and listener,--and she instantly looked in at one of the windows.
-- Thus far my sense of sight; while dry rot and wet rot and all the silent rots that rot in neglected roof and cellar,--rot of rat and mouse and bug and coaching-stables near at hand besides--addressed themselves faintly to my sense of smell, and moaned, "Try Barnard's Mixture."
-- On meeting my eye, he said plainly, by a momentary and silent pause in that attitude, "Indeed?
-- Some ancient trees before the house were still cut into fashions as formal and unnatural as the hoops and wigs and stiff skirts; but their own allotted places in the great procession of the dead were not far off, and they would soon drop into them and go the silent way of the rest.
-- After another silent turn in the garden, I fell back on the main position.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The two creatures stood silent while I spoke, seeming to listen with great attention, and when I had ended, they neighed frequently towards each other, as if they were engaged in serious conversation.
-- To this I was silent out of partiality to my own kind; yet here I could plainly discover the true seeds of spleen, which only seizes on the lazy, the luxurious, and the rich; who, if they were forced to undergo the same regimen, I would under-take for the cure.
-- However, I remained silent and sullen; I was ready to faint at the very smell of him and his men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts.
-- By the place where Rachael lived, though it was not in his way; by the red brick streets; by the great silent factories, not trembling yet; by the railway, where the danger-lights were waning in the strengthening day; by the railway's crazy neighbourhood, half pulled down and half built up; by scattered red brick villas, where the besmoked evergreens were sprinkled with a dirty powder, like untidy snuff-takers; by coal-dust paths and many varieties of ugliness; Stephen got to the top of the hill, and looked back.
-- He has been very silent and doleful of late.
-- After this strange speech, she lay silent for some time.
-- He was silent for a moment; and then proceeded with a more self-possessed air, though with traces of vexation and disappointment that would not be polished out.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will therefore be silent and strictly keep the secret I have discovered.
-- This grave, sententious, silent person, as phlegmatic as an Englishman on the French stage, was named Hans Bjelke.
-- I went back to my pile of lava, in a state of silent awe.
-- This proved the theories of Humphry Davy to be founded on truth, and more than once I found myself examining the thermometer in silent astonishment.
-- All were silent and gloomy.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was infinitely amused, and proud too, that even their talking they could not do, without her silent presence.
-- As she came out of the wood on the north side, the keep-er's cottage, a rather dark, brown stone cottage, with gables and a handsome chimney, looked uninhabited, it was so silent and alone.
-- It was raining, but not so cold, and the wood felt so silent and remote, inaccessible in the dusk of rain.
-- She was silent for a few moments in anger.
-- But it was nothing to the silent fight-to-the-death that went on among the indispensables, the bone-bringers.
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