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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It died away, and an absolute silence closed in upon us.
-- A terrible scream a prolonged yell of horror and an-guish burst out of the silence of the moor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I rise and dress in amazement; silence on both sides.
-- Gania was surprised, but cautiously kept silence and looked at his mother, hoping that she would express herself more clearly.
-- There was silence for a moment.
-- Lizabetha Prokofievna received confirmatory news from the princess and alas, two months after the prince's first departure from St. Petersburg, darkness and mystery once more enveloped his whereabouts and actions, and in the Epanchin family the ice of silence once more formed over the subject.
-- Rogojin did not insist upon an answer, and there was silence for a few moments.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will put on my armour; meanwhile, pray to King Jove in silence among yourselves that the Tro-jans may not hear you or aloud if you will, for we fear no man.
-- Now bring water for our hands, and bid all keep silence while we pray to Jove the son of Saturn, if so be that he may have mercy upon us.'
-- There were three binders, and behind them there were boys who gathered the cut corn in armfuls and kept on bringing them to be bound: among them all the owner of the land stood by in silence and was glad.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Silence again.
-- Hall made gestures of silence and invitation.
-- Mr. Marvel mended his pace, and for a time they went in silence again.
-- A silence followed.
-- Silence came upon the place, and I found myself wandering through the vast and intricate shops, galleries, show-rooms of the place, alone.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The minutes passed; the silence lengthened out, and at last after an hour of security my courage began to return to me.
-- And with a touch of contempt which humiliated me, he and Montgomery turned and went on in silence before me.
-- I sat in silence watching his face.
-- he cried, and there fell absolute silence upon them all.
-- Then as the moon crept down from the zenith, one by one the listeners began to yawn (showing the odd-est teeth in the light of the sinking fire), and first one and then another retired towards the dens in the ravine; and I, dreading the silence and darkness, went with them, know-ing I was safer with several of them than with one alone.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was one blast of furious trumpeting from the lines, and then the silence shut down on everything, and Kala Nag began to move.
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：
-- At length the sun set in a flood of glory, behind the distant western hills, and as dark-ness drew its veil around the secluded spot the sounds of preparation diminished; the last light finally disappeared from the log cabin of some officer; the trees cast their deep-er shadows over the mounds and the rippling stream, and a silence soon pervaded the camp, as deep as that which reigned in the vast forest by which it was environed.
-- Such an innovation on the silence and retirement of the forest could not fail to enlist the ears of those who journeyed at so short a distance in advance.
-- A silence of a minute succeeded, during which the In-dian sat mute; then, full of the dignity of his office, he commenced his brief tale, with a solemnity that served to heighten its appearance of truth.
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