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：
-- In this manner they proceeded, for many rods, in a silence that was only interrupted by the rippling of the water, as its eddies played around them, or the low dash made by their own cautious footsteps.
-- A short and apparently an embarrassed silence succeed-ed this remark, which was interrupted by the scout calling to them, aloud, to enter.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something in the moody and dogged silence of this pertinacious companion that was mysteri-ous and appalling.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I cannot agree with the painters who claim superciliously that the layman can understand nothing of painting, and that he can best show his appreciation of their works by silence and a cheque-book.
-- His decent reticence is branded as hypocrisy, his circumlocutions are roundly called lies, and his silence is vilified as treachery.
-- At last I had to break the silence myself.
-- The silence of the studio seemed to gather body, so that it became an almost palpable presence.
-- Chapter XXIXI kept silence for a little while, thinking of what Stroeve had told me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The silence of our friend proves nothing," said the reporter.
-- Herbert was the first to break the silence by saying, "Mr. Spilett, you are a smoker and always have matches about you; perhaps you haven't looked well, try again, a single match will be enough!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The silence was not of long duration, for Mr Swiveller, after favouring us with several melodious assurances that his heart was in the Highlands, and that he wanted but his Arab steed as a preliminary to the achievement of great feats of valour and loyalty, removed his eyes from the ceiling and subsided into prose again.
-- Mrs Nubbles ironed away in silence for a minute or two, and coming to the fireplace for another iron, glanced stealthily at Kit while she rubbed it on a board and dusted it with a duster, but said nothing until she had returned to her table again: when, holding the iron at an alarmingly short distance from her cheek, to test its temperature, and looking round with a smile, she observed:'I know what some people would say, Kit ''Nonsense,' interposed Kit with a perfect apprehension of what was to follow.
-- She lived in such continual dread and apprehension of meeting one or other of them on the stairs or in the passages if she stirred from her grandfather's chamber, that she seldom left it, for a moment, until late at night, when the silence encouraged her to venture forth and breathe the purer air of some empty room.
-- Frequently raising her eyes to the trees whence these sounds came down, and feeling as though they made the place more quiet than perfect silence would have done, the child loitered from grave to grave, now stopping to replace with careful hands the bramble which had started from some green mound it helped to keep in shape, and now peeping through one of the low latticed windows into the church, with its worm-eaten books upon the desks, and baize of whitened-green mouldering from the pew sides and leaving the naked wood to view.
-- In the silence that ensued, the hum of distant voices borne upon the evening air came floating through the open window.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a short silence she said: "He would not let me go.
-- The intervals became longer and longer, and finally silence settled over the cell.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was silence in a moment, and several of the pink daisies turned white.
-- Alice curtseyed again, as she was afraid from the Queen's tone that she was a little offended: and they walked on in silence till they got to the top of the little hill.
-- They went on a little way in silence after this, the Knight with his eyes shut, muttering to himself, and Alice watching anxiously for the next tumble.
-- There was a short silence after this, and then the Knight went on again.
-- 'A nasty, vicious temper,' the Red Queen remarked; and then there was an uncomfortable silence for a minute or two.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For in these fits he was the most overriding companion ever known; he would slap his hand on the table for silence all round; he would fly up in a passion of anger at a question, or sometimes because none was put, and so he judged the company was not following his story.
-- Then it struck sharp on the inn door, and then we could hear the handle being turned and the bolt rattling as the wretched being tried to enter; and then there was a long time of silence both within and without.
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