查询词典 clam up

The clam immediately closed up her shell, gripping the snipe's beak in between.

蛤蜊迅速合上外壳，外壳两边刚好夹住了鹬鸟的鸟喙。

On the evening streets, our louche, loud city had closed up like a clam.

在夜晚的街道上，我们这座声名狼藉的喧嚣城市像蛤蜊一样紧闭起来。

He always clam med up when we asked him about his family.

我们一问到他的家庭时，他总是闭口不言。

Hey, clam up, will you!

咳，你别说了，行不行！

A lot of famous Bands clam up very fast during interviews.

在学校里，你曾是个十足的捣蛋鬼。

Even when the finance chief earnestly solicits queries, employees often clam up.

尽管在财务经理真诚寻求问题的时候，员工们还是经常不吭声。

Ballsy? to do it as openly as Bryant did, then clam up and compete like the first-ballot Hall of Famer that he is.

这次需要一个特别的人像科比一样公开的表示不满，然后拒绝开口，一如既往的向以前一样的竞争。

But they did so subtly, mostly privately. It takes a particular kind of person (arrogant? ballsy?) to do it as openly as Bryant did, then clam up and compete like the first-ballot Hall of Famer that he is.

然而也仅仅只有科比这样有胆量、伟大的人才把这样的事情闹的如此公开，如此有影响力；事后才闭口不谈这件事情，这个过程就像名人堂最初的争选一样。

She says that while people are always happy to discuss 'external' issues, like their children's schooling, driving mishaps and cultural clashes or epiphanies, they tend to clam up when it comes to more internal issues, especially marriage.

她说，这些人总是很高兴谈论小孩的学校、驾车时的倒霉事、文化方面的冲突和感悟等&外在&话题，而一旦触及&内在&话题特别是婚姻话题时，就变得沉默了。

She says that while people are always happy to discuss external issues, like their childrens schooling, driving mishaps and cultural clashes or epiphanies, they tend to clam up when it comes to more internal issues, especially marriage.

她说，这些人总是很高兴谈论小孩的学校、驾车时的倒霉事、文化方面的冲突和感悟等&外在&话题，而一旦触及&内在&话题特别是婚姻话题时，就变得沉默了。

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。