mute是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 哑的， 缄默的n. 哑巴； 弱音器v. 减弱…的声音，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He's mute as a fish.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Mohalis, the suitable time for young men callers to depart is ten o'clock, but from eight till a quarter after eleven Martin did battle with Mrs. Fox; talked to her in two languages, an audible gossip and a mute but furious protest, while Madeline--she was present; she sat about and looked pretty.
-- Her mute examination of him made him feel illicit.
-- In Nautilus, alone, rarely saying much about herself, Leora had developed an intense mute little life of her own.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- but I was, I am glad to remember, as mute as a mouseabout it.
-- He was as mute andsenseless as the box, from which his form derived the onlyexpression it had.
-- -That face, so full of pity, and ofgrief, that rain of tears, that awful mute appeal to me, that solemnhand upraised towards Heaven!
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- John Knightley only was in mute astonishment. That a man who might have spent his evening quietly at home after a day of busi-ness in London, should set off again, and walk half a mile to another man's house, for the sake of being in mixed compa-ny till bed-time, of finishing his day in the efforts of civility and the noise of numbers, was a circumstance to strike him deeply.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She longed to bid me hasten my return; a thousand conflicting emotions rendered her mute as she bade me a tearful, silent farewell.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Toby, who hadhandled Gerald's horses for twenty years, pushed out his lips in mute indignation at being told how to conduct his ownbusiness.
-- his face full of the mute misery of oneforced to face realities when realities are agonies.
-- The women did not speak, but their paleset faces pleaded with a mute eloquence that was louder than wailing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When should I awaken the heart within her that was mute and sleeping now?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no mute sign of a woman in the room.
-- 'Father,' she replied, without stirring, 'if any harmony has been awakened in her young breast that was mute in mine until it turned to discord, let her thank Heaven for it, and go upon her happier way, taking it as her greatest blessing that she has avoided my way.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had become as mute and reticent as Hans, our guide.
-- I examined it eagerly according to his mute directions, and a loud cry of surprise escaped my lips.
-- We were mute with astonishment, overcome by a kind of feeling which was next door to apathy.
-- When, however, I saw these two letters, which had been engraven three hundred years before, I stood fixed in an attitude of mute surprise.
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：
-- And there was something so mute and forlorn in her, compassion flamed in his bowels for her.
-- Instead, she said in a mute kind of voice: 'I told Clifford I might have a child.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To see her hand upon his arm in mute entreaty half-repressed, and her timid little shrinking figure turning away, was to see a sad, sad sight.
-- In the arrangement of the house for the great occasion, many little reminders of the old travels of the father and mother and daughter had to be disturbed and passed from hand to hand; and sometimes, in the midst of these mute witnesses, to the life they had had together, even Pet herself would yield to lamenting and weeping.
-- The master-mind of the age, true to its characteristic of being at all times a mind that had as little as possible to say for itself and great difficulty in saying it, became mute again.
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