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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He climbed a rock, sloping to a little promontory, and there, with his arms crossed, mute and motionless, and with an eager look, he seemed to take possession of these southern regions.
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：
-- Her father, mute and yellowish, his black beard making him look more careworn, mounted the steps stiffly, as if his spirit were absent; but the laughing mist of the bride went along with him undiminished.
-- She had recovered herself somewhat, but was mute and lifeless still.
-- But she only averted her soft, mute face a little from his gaze.
-- Gudrun looked up at him, white, childlike, mute with trouble.
-- She, afraid, white, with mute lips answered:"What difference would it have made!"
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We all kept as mute as mice a full half hour, and should have done so longer, only Joseph, having finished his chapter, got up and said that he must rouse the master for prayers and bed.
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