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：
-- No shout of triumph succeeded this important advan-tage, but even the Mohicans gazed at each other in silent horror.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of the damsels mounted on pillions be-hind their favorite swains, and their light-hearted laughter, mingling with the clatter of hoofs, echoed along the silent woodlands, sounding fainter and fainter, until they grad-ually died away, and the late scene of noise and frolic was all silent and deserted.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was silent for a moment.
-- I was silent for a moment in order to give greater force to my next remark.
-- he said, as we approached the end of our silent meal.
-- Sometimes he would sit silent and abstracted, taking no notice of anyone; and at others, when he was in a good humour, he would talk in his own halting way.
-- He was silent for a long time, and then he said what I knew was in his mind.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The reporter and the engineer went together, Gideon Spilett ready to note every incident, the engineer silent for the most part, and only stepping aside to pick up one thing or another, a mineral or vegetable substance, which he put into his pocket, without making any remark.
-- The result was less, but the silent arrow had the advantage of not frightening the birds, while the noise of firearms would have dispersed them to all parts of the marsh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A part of this door was of glass unprotected by any shutter, which I did not observe at first, for all was very dark and silent within, and I was anxious (as indeed the child was also) for an answer to our summons.
-- I passed and repassed the house, and stopped and listened at the door; all was dark, and silent as the grave.
-- I had ever before me the old dark murky rooms the gaunt suits of mail with their ghostly silent air the faces all awry, grinning from wood and stone the dust and rust and worm that lives in wood and alone in the midst of all this lumber and decay and ugly age, the beautiful child in her gentle slumber, smiling through her light and sunny dreams.
-- If he were to die if sudden illness had happened to him, and he were never to come home again, alive if, one night, he should come home, and kiss and bless her as usual, and after she had gone to bed and had fallen asleep and was perhaps dreaming pleasantly, and smiling in her sleep, he should kill himself and his blood come creeping, creeping, on the ground to her own bed-room door!These thoughts were too terrible to dwell upon, and again she would have recourse to the street, now trodden by fewer feet, and darker and more silent than before.
-- CHAPTER 15Often, while they were yet pacing the silent streets of the town on the morning of their departure, the child trembled with a mingled sensation of hope and fear as in some far-off figure imperfectly seen in the clear distance, her fancy traced a likeness to honest Kit.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lawyer was silent for a short while, evidently desiring to give an accurate answer.
-- They were silent again.
-- Seeing their master, the women became silent and began to arrange their 'kerchiefs, which had fallen from their heads, while the clerk took his hands out of his pockets and began to smile.
-- Wolf was evidently offended by the speech; he twitched nervously, changed color, made silent gestures of wonder, and with an haughty air of being offended he departed with the other Senators into the deliberation-room.
-- The result was the customary misunderstanding between the husband and wife, and even in a want of desire to understand each other, and a quiet, silent struggle, hidden from strangers and tempered by propriety, which made Selenin's life at home very burdensome.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everyone was silent for a minute.
-- At that the Editor turned to his knife and fork with a grunt, and the Silent Man followed suit.
-- The Time Traveller pushed his glass towards the Silent Man and rang it with his fingernail; at which the Silent Man, who had been staring at his face, started convulsively, and poured him wine.
-- The Silent Man seemed even more clumsy than usual, and drank champagne with regularity and determination out of sheer nervousness.
-- You cannot know how his expression followed the turns of his story!Most of us hearers were in shadow, for the candles in the smoking-room had not been lighted, and only the face of the Journalist and the legs of the Silent Man from the knees downward were illuminated.
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