英语词汇“to keep silence”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. to keep (one's) silence (also to hold (one's) silence): to refrain from speaking; to refrain from discussing or remarking on a specific matter. [Compare Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French faire silence (c1210).]

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)]

to hold one's tonguec897

to keep one's tonguec897

to be (hold oneself) stilla1000

to say littleOE

to hold one's mouthc1175

to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175

to keep (one's) silence?c1225

to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275

stillc1330

peacec1395

mum1440

to say neither buff nor baff1481

to keep (also play) mum1532

to charm the tonguec1540

to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546

hush1548

to play (at) mumbudgeta1564

not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590

to keep a still tongue in one's head1729

to sing small1738

to sew up1785

let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814

to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824

to choke back1844

mumchance1854

to keep one's trap shut1899

to choke up1907

to belt up1949

to keep (or stay) shtum1958

shtum1958

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 20 From ouwer compelin oðet Preciosa beo iseid. haldeð silence.

c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) l. 324 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 228 Hov holde ȝe so silence þat neuer on ne spekez with oþur?

c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 336 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 313 As þai come til his presence, he gert þe puple kepe scilence.

c1500 (a1473) Syon Additions Sisters (Arundel) in J. Hogg Rewyll Seynt Sauioure (1980) IV. liii. 176 All schal there kepe hygh silence.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xviij He required him that his aduersaries might kepe silence.

1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. ix. 211 They kept a strict silence all the week.

1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci iv. iv. 74 He keeps firm silence; but these lines found on him May speak.

1944 A. Thirkell Headmistress (1996) xiii. 336 Mr. Belton..was in that state of letting off steam that he would have taken the whole Albert Hall into his confidence sooner than keep silence.

1949 Manch. Guardian 10 June 3/1 Miss Utley held her silence publicly until it seemed that there was no chance of his release.

2018 Manila Times (Nexis) 13 July The President said he would keep his silence from now on.

单词	to keep silence
释义	> as lemmas to keep (one's) silence P1. to keep (one's) silence (also to hold (one's) silence): to refrain from speaking; to refrain from discussing or remarking on a specific matter. [Compare Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French faire silence (c1210).] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] to hold one's tonguec897 to keep one's tonguec897 to be (hold oneself) stilla1000 to say littleOE to hold one's mouthc1175 to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175 to keep (one's) silence?c1225 to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275 stillc1330 peacec1395 mum1440 to say neither buff nor baff1481 to keep (also play) mum1532 to charm the tonguec1540 to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546 hush1548 to play (at) mumbudgeta1564 not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590 to keep a still tongue in one's head1729 to sing small1738 to sew up1785 let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814 to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824 to choke back1844 mumchance1854 to keep one's trap shut1899 to choke up1907 to belt up1949 to keep (or stay) shtum1958 shtum1958 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 20 From ouwer compelin oðet Preciosa beo iseid. haldeð silence. c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) l. 324 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 228 Hov holde ȝe so silence þat neuer on ne spekez with oþur? c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 336 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 313 As þai come til his presence, he gert þe puple kepe scilence. c1500 (a1473) Syon Additions Sisters (Arundel) in J. Hogg Rewyll Seynt Sauioure (1980) IV. liii. 176 All schal there kepe hygh silence. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xviij He required him that his aduersaries might kepe silence. 1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. ix. 211 They kept a strict silence all the week. 1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci iv. iv. 74 He keeps firm silence; but these lines found on him May speak. 1944 A. Thirkell Headmistress (1996) xiii. 336 Mr. Belton..was in that state of letting off steam that he would have taken the whole Albert Hall into his confidence sooner than keep silence. 1949 Manch. Guardian 10 June 3/1 Miss Utley held her silence publicly until it seemed that there was no chance of his release. 2018 Manila Times (Nexis) 13 July The President said he would keep his silence from now on. extracted from silencen.int. < as lemmas
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