查询词典 be as silent as the grave

Shut the door and blindfold the doctor tight and fast, and make him swear to be silent as the grave, and put a purse full of gold in his hand, and then take and lead him all around the back alleys and everywheres in the dark, and then fetch him here in the canoe, in a roundabout way amongst the islands, and search him and take his chalk away from him, and don't give it back to him till you get him back to the village, or else he will chalk this raft so he can find it again.

把门一关，把医生的眼睛用布给绑个严严实实，要他宣誓严守秘密。随后把一袋金币放在他手心里。接着在黑地里带他在大街小巷里转来转去，然后带他到独木舟上，在各处小岛那里转圈子。还要搜他的身，把粉笔扣下来，在他回到村子里以前，不要发还给他。不然的话，他准会在这个木筏子上做上记号，以便往后找到它。这样的方法是人家都这么干的。

I think these thanks are caught up,and the sunbeams bring the silent,hidden thankfulness over the head of the benefactor;and if it be a whole people that has been expressing its gratitude through a long lapse of time,the thankfulness appears as a nosegay of flowers,and falls in the form of a shooting star over the good man's grave.

如果整个民族在时间的进程中表示出这种感谢，那么这种感谢就形成一个花束，变做一颗流星落在这善人的坟上。

He tells a reporter,"Skyline sightseeing is round " place of these 5 words wants expression, it is a praise occasionally, it is criticism occasionally, it is silent as the grave even occasionally the exposure of ground general in the public eye, pass the calcination of numerous netizen look, the person that let be paid close attention to thereby produces some kind of self-communion.

他告诉记者，"天涯观光团"这五个字所要表达的，有时候是赞扬，有时候是批评，有时候甚至是一言不发地将之暴露在众目睽睽之下，通过众网友目光的灼烧，从而让被关注者产生某种自省。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。