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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Nemo suddenly became silent in the midst of this enthusiasm, by which he was quite carried away.
-- He was silent for a few moments, then he said:"There is a powerful agent, obedient, rapid, easy, which conforms to every use, and reigns supreme on board my vessel.
-- I had returned to my room, where Ned and Conseil had remained silent enough.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- People were silent when she passed, impressed, roused, wanting to jeer, yet for some reason silenced.
-- In another instant the bridegroom, bent forward as he ran, had caught the angle of the silent stone with his hand, and had swung himself out of sight, his supple, strong loins vanishing in pursuit.
-- And the hired footman came, with a silent step of cold servant-like disapprobation.
-- A dark flash went over his face, a silent fury.
-- He hung silent in irritation.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He struggled long to keep up an equality with Catherine in her studies, and yielded with poignant though silent regret: but he yielded completely; and there was no prevailing on him to take a step in the way of moving upward, when he found he must, necessarily, sink beneath his former level.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After this, Alice was silent for a minute or two, pondering.
-- She stood silent for a minute, thinking: then she suddenly began again.
-- He said "I hunt for haddocks' eyesAmong the heather bright,And work them into waistcoat-buttonsIn the silent night.And these I do not sell for goldOr coin of silvery shineBut for a copper halfpenny,And that will purchase nine.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was a very silent man by custom.
-- When a seaman did put up at the Admiral Benbow (as now and then some did, making by the coast road for Bristol) he would look in at him through the curtained door before he entered the parlour; and he was always sure to be as silent as a mouse when any such was present.
-- When we were about half-way through, I suddenly put my hand upon her arm, for I had heard in the silent frosty air a sound that brought my heart into my mouth the tap-tapping of the blind man's stick upon the frozen road.
-- I'll be as silent as the grave."
-- This put me in a great fear, and I crawled under cover of the nearest live-oak and squatted there, hearkening, as silent as a mouse.
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