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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But I have seen more than that,' said he, 'for Hugo Baskerville passed me upon his black mare, and there ran mute behind him such a hound of hell as God forbid should ever be at my heels.'
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：
-- His eyes opened as if he doubted their truth; and his voice became instantly mute in excess of wonder.
-- David gazed about him, at the fierce and wild-looking chiefs, in mute wonder; but assured by the presence of faces that he knew, he soon rallied his faculties so far as to make an intelligent reply.
-- The scout was hard by, leaning in a pensive posture on his own fatal and avenging weapon; while Tamenund, supported by the elders of his nation, oc-cupied a high place at hand, whence he might look down on the mute and sorrowful assemblage of his people.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The engineer and his companions, mute and motionless, surveyed for some minutes every point of the ocean, examining it to its most extreme limits.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length the day broke, and poor Mrs Quilp, shivering with cold of early morning and harassed by fatigue and want of sleep, was discovered sitting patiently on her chair, raising her eyes at intervals in mute appeal to the compassion and clemency of her lord, and gently reminding him by an occasion cough that she was still unpardoned and that her penance had been of long duration.
-- 'The gentleman's been kind enough, my dear,' said she, in reply to this mute interrogation, 'to ask me whether you were in a good place, or in any place at all, and when I told him no, you were not in any, he was so good as to say that '' That we wanted a good lad in our house,' said the old gentleman and the old lady both together, 'and that perhaps we might think of it, if we found everything as we would wish it to be.'
-- From all these mute signs and tokens of her presence, he naturally glanced at Barbara herself, who sat as mute as they, shelling peas into a dish; and just when Kit was looking at her eyelashes and wondering quite in the simplicity of his heart what colour her eyes might be, it perversely happened that Barbara raised her head a little to look at him, when both pair of eyes were hastily withdrawn, and Kit leant over his plate, and Barbara over her pea-shells, each in extreme confusion at having been detected by the other.
-- 'You amaze me more and more,' said Mrs Jarley, after remaining for some time as mute as one of her own figures.
-- Nell could see that she raised her dark eyes to the face of her superior, and that their expression, and that of her whole attitude for the instant, was one of mute but most touching appeal against this ungenerous usage.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hardly believe it myself..... And yet..."His eye fell with a mute inquiry upon the withered white flowers upon the little table.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After supper, which was served by the steward, mute and impassive, I went to bed, not without some anxiety.
-- I was mute with horror and unable to move.
-- At this moment seven men of the crew, mute and immovable as ever, mounted the platform.
-- Whilst I was trying to fix in my mind every detail of this grand landscape, Captain Nemo remained motionless, as if petrified in mute ecstasy, leaning on a mossy stone.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- was the only answer her mute appeal received, and too proud to cry or beseech, Amy set her teeth, threw bach her head defiantly, and bore without flinching several tingling blows on her little palm.
-- For, as quick to hear her sobbing as she had been to hear her sister's faintest whisper, her mother came to com-fort her, not with words only, but the patient tenderness that soothes by a touch, tears that were mute reminders of a greater grief than Jo's, and broken whispers, more eloquent than prayers, because hopeful resignation went hand-in-hand with natural sorrow.
-- Then his eyes would turn to Jo so wistfully that she would have surely answered the mute inquiry if she had seen it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't mean a regular mute to attend grown-up people, my dear, but only for children's practice.
-- It would be very new to have a mute in proportion, my dear.
-- He stepped back from the keyhole; drew himself up to his full height; and looked from one to another of the three bystanders, in mute astonishment.
-- As the Jew uttered these words, his bright dark eyes, which had been staring vacantly before him, fell on Oliver's face; the boy's eyes were fixed on his in mute curiousity; and although the recognition was only for an instant--for the briefest space of time that can possibly be conceived-- it was enough to show the old man that he had been observed.
-- 'Ah, she's a clever girl, my dears,' said the Jew, turning round to his young friends, and shaking his head gravely, as if in mute admonition to them to follow the bright example they had just beheld.
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