silence是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 寂静， 沉默v. 使沉默， 使安静，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To sit, staring at those fixed glazed eyes, in silence for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him.
-- The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously in the dead silence of the night, that the Ward would have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a weary sound that was not a sigh, nor a groan, he bent to work again, until the silence was again broken.
-- When the quiet of the garret had been long undisturbed, and his heaving breast and shaken form had long yielded to the calm that must follow all storms emblem to human-ity, of the rest and silence into which the storm called Life must hush at last they came forward to raise the father and daughter from the ground.
-- An unnatural silence and desertion reigned there.
-- As the ancient clerk deliberately folded and superscribed the note, Mr. Cruncher, after surveying him in silence until he came to the blotting-paper stage, remarked: 'I suppose they'll be trying Forgeries this morning?'
-- Silence in the court!Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excel-lent, and so forth; that was to say, by coming and going, between the dominions of our said serene, illustrious, ex-cellent, and so forth, and those of the said French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously, and otherwise evil-ad-verbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every corpse is a sphynx of immortality; here too on the black coffin the sphynx gave us no answer to what he who lay within had written two days before: 'O mighty Death!thy silence teaches nought, Thou leadest only to the near grave's brink; Is broken now the ladder of my thoughts?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Konstantin Levin to Kritsky, to break the awkward silence that followed.
-- The silence lasted for two minutes: Dolly was thinking of herself.
-- she turned to Anna, who, with a faintly perceptible resolute smile on her lips, was listening in silence to the conversation.
-- She took her seat in her husband's carriage in silence, and in silence drove out of the crowd of carriages.
-- "Yes; he writes that you are here, and that he thinks you might allow me to be of use to you," said Levin, and as he said it he became suddenly embarrassed, and, stopping abruptly, he walked on in silence by the wagonette, snapping off the buds of the lime trees and nibbling them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The songs gradually died away; occasionally cries were heard in the distance, until at last all was silence again.
-- He slipped more cautiously than ever through the brush, followed by his companions; the silence around was only broken by the low murmuring of the wind among the branches.
-- Absolute silence rested on the plains.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus they jabbered, while Angus Duer watched them in a superior silence that made Martin nervous.
-- Mr. Tozer was as thin and undistinguished and sun-worn as his wife, and like her he peered, he kept silence and fretted.
-- After the train there was silence but for the crickets and a distant frog.
-- He was left to Orchid and peace and a silence rather embarrassing.
-- He hesitated over waiting for Gottlieb's arrival, to tell him of the discovery, but determined to keep silence till he should have determined whether it was an accident.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old woman stood facing him in silence and looking inquiringly at him.
-- Then again dead silence for a minute or two.
-- A con-strained silence lasted for a couple of minutes, and then, as might be expected, some scene-shifting took place.
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