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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Miss Grant sat silent and motionless, with clasped hands, and all she said when the narration ended, was: "Oh, ma'am, the paper, please!"
-- After some minutes of this silent contemplation he turned round, and suddenly found himself face to face with a new comer.
-- This reply was so unexpected, and yet so admissible, that it made them all completely silent for a minute, though their beaming eyes betrayed the rekindling of hope in their hearts.
-- After a little, Thalcave sat silent and folded his arms.
-- The Major alone, whose brief absence had not been noticed, contented himself with being a silent listener.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For an instant he sat in silent amazement.
-- Even Baskerville fell silent and pulled his overcoat more closely around him.
-- A dim line of ancestors, in every variety of dress, from the Elizabethan knight to the buck of the Regency, stared down upon us and daunted us by their silent company.
-- He groaned and was silent for a few moments.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By many significant looks and silent entreaties, did she endeavour to prevent such a proof of complaisance, but in vain; Mary would not understand them; such an opportunity of exhibiting was delightful to her, and she began her song.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now being about to enter into a melancholy relation of a scene of silent life, such, perhaps, as was never heard of in the world before, I shall take it from its beginning, and continue it in its order.
-- This was exemplified in me, at this time, in the most lively manner imaginable; for I, whose only affliction was that I seemed banished from human society, that I was alone, circum-scribed by the boundless ocean, cut off from mankind, and condemned to what I call silent life; that I was as one whom Heaven thought not worthy to be numbered among the liv-ing, or to appear among the rest of His creatures; that to have seen one of my own species would have seemed to me a raising me from death to life, and the greatest blessing that Heaven itself, next to the supreme blessing of salvation, could bestow; I say, that I should now tremble at the very apprehensions of seeing a man, and was ready to sink into the ground at but the shadow or silent appearance of a man having set his foot in the island.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was silent and grave.
-- She could not be silent when such points were introduced, and she had neither shyness nor reserve in their discussion.
-- She saw it with concern; for what could a silent man of five and thirty hope, when opposed to a very lively one of five and twenty?
-- Such violence of affliction indeed could not be supported for ever; it sunk within a few days into a calmer melancholy; but these employments, to which she daily recurred, her solitary walks and silent meditations, still produced occasional effusions of sorrow as lively as ever.
-- His gravity and thoughtfulness returned on him in their fullest extent and he sat for some time silent and dull.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a silent man, American born, of a Swede father, and now employed as a cleaner of refrigerator cars at the stock-yards.
-- She scaled and addressed the letter, and going in the front room, the alcove of which contained her bed, drew the one small rocking-chair up to the open window, and sat looking out upon the night and streets in silent wonder.
-- This never showed so much in anything he said as in a certain solemnity of countenance and the silent manner in which he slopped about.
-- She would speak for that when silent on all else.
-- The whole audience was silent and intent.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the old man got pretty silent by and by didn't have much to say, and didn't look pretty comfortable over all that petting that was going on around that duke.
-- Shut the door and blindfold the doctor tight and fast, and make him swear to be silent as the grave, and put a purse full of gold in his hand, and then take and lead him all around the back alleys and ev-erywheres in the dark, and then fetch him here in the canoe, in a roundabout way amongst the islands, and search him and take his chalk away from him, and don't give it back to him till you get him back to the village, or else he will chalk this raft so he can find it again.
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