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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The child still struggled and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart; I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They clucked to their horses and rode along in silence for a while, a flush of embarrassment on Stuart's browncheeks.
-- There was a startled silence and then the buzzing broke out again.
-- For half an hour, the girls would chatter and laugh, and then servants would pull theshutters and in the warm half-gloom the talk would die to whispers and finally expire in silence broken only by softregular breathing.
-- For an instance there was a silence so acute it seemed that neither of them even breathed.
-- Her silence pressed him on.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I am afraid you won't leave any of it for him," said I, timidly; after a silence during which I had hesitated as to the politeness of making the remark.
-- Then, came that singular calm and silence which succeed all uproars; and then, with the vague sensation which I have always connected with such a lull,--namely, that it was Sunday, and somebody was dead,--I went upstairs to dress myself.
-- Amidst a wondering silence, we three walked out of the Jolly Bargemen, and in a wondering silence walked home.
-- The more I looked into the glowing coals, the more incapable I became of looking at Joe; the longer the silence lasted, the more unable I felt to speak.
-- There was silence between us for a little while.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She stepped inside, but not a soul was to be seen, and a great silence reigned throughout.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for dur-ing those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the discourse.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Silence between them.
-- They walked back together to the corner of the street where Rachael lived, and as they drew nearer and nearer to it, silence crept upon them.
-- Having paid for his entertainment with this agreeable compliment, he relapsed into a hangdog silence until there was no more India ale left, when he said, 'Well, Mrs. Sparsit, I must be off!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our progress was made in profound silence--a silence only troubled by the fall of pieces of rock, which breaking from the jagged sides, fell with a roar into the depths below.
-- My silence was taken for consent; and still we continued to go down.
-- His silence I thought was only caused by concentrated ill-temper.
-- For some moments there was silence under that dark and gloomy vault.
-- A profound and terrible silence reigned around us--a silence of the tomb.
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：
-- When he rose, he kissed both her hands, then both her feet, in their suede slippers, and in silence went away to the end of the room, where he stood with his back to her.
-- There was silence for some minutes.
-- I'm merely a fellow skulking in the army...' Silence fell.
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