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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the sharp pinnacle of granite still cut-ting the lower edge of the moon, but its peak bore no trace of that silent and motionless figure.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he was wide awake and realized the truth, he became very silent and argued no more so they say; but after a bit he said: 'It comes very hard on one so suddenly' and then he was silent again and said nothing.
-- But the prince was silent and serious.
-- and she got so chaffed that she was silent for ever after.
-- Gania was silent for a minute or two, as though thinking out some problem.
-- 'I think you might fairly remember that I was not in any way bound, I had no reason to be silent about that portrait.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a time they delivered their message, and the speech of Menel-aus ran trippingly on the tongue; he did not say much, for he was a man of few words, but he spoke very clearly and to the point, though he was the younger man of the two; Ulysses, on the other hand, when he rose to speak, was at first silent and kept his eyes fixed upon the ground.
-- The chiefs gave orders each to his own people, but the men said never a word; no man would think it, for huge as the host was, it seemed as though there was not a tongue among them, so silent were they in their obedience; and as they marched the armour about their bodies glistened in the sun.
-- They all held their peace, sitting for a long time silent and dejected, by reason of the sternness with which Achilles had refused them, till presently Diomed said, 'Most noble son of Atreus, king of men, Agamemnon, you ought not to have sued the son of Peleus nor offered him gifts.
-- The other Achaeans sat where they were all silent and orderly to hear the king, and Agamemnon looked into the vault of heaven and prayed saying, 'I call Jove the first and mighti-est of all gods to witness, I call also Earth and Sun and the Erinyes who dwell below and take vengeance on him who shall swear falsely, that I have laid no hand upon the girl Briseis, neither to take her to my bed nor otherwise, but that she has remained in my tents inviolate.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the stranger stood there, perfectly silent and still.
-- When she returned the room was silent again, save for the faint crepitation of his chair and the occasional clink of a bottle.
-- The parlour door slammed, and the place was silent again.
-- The Invisible Man was silent for a space.
-- He was silent for the best part of a minute.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only human being on deck was a gaunt and silent sailor at the wheel.
-- Over the taffrail leant a silent black figure, watching the stars.
-- Before me was the glittering desola-tion of the sea, the awful solitude upon which I had already suffered so much; behind me the island, hushed under the dawn, its Beast People silent and unseen.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Kaa hissed, and the city was silent once more.
-- Now Petersen Sahib had ears all over him, as a man must have who listens to the most silent of all living things the wild elephant.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is impossible to say what unlooked-for remark this short and silent communication, between two such singular men, might have elicited from the white man, had not his active curiosity been again drawn to other objects.
-- The white man seemed to take counsel from their customs, and, relinquishing his grasp of the rifle, he also remained silent and reserved.
-- ' Burns eyward and his female companions witnessed this Hmysterious movement with secret uneasiness; for, though the conduct of the white man had hitherto been above reproach, his rude equipments, blunt address, and strong antipathies, together with the character of his silent associates, were all causes for exciting distrust in minds that had been so recently alarmed by Indian treachery.
-- 'If anything could add to my own base love of life,' said Heyward, suffering his unconscious eyes to wander to the youthful form of the silent Alice, 'it would be so kind an as- surance.
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