保持缄默

One plausible explanation for this reticence is an old-fashioned reluctance to admit problems, especially, in a country that justly regards itself as Nazism's vanquisher, the growth of fascism.

我们并不清楚俄政府对此保持缄默的原因，一个可能的解释或许可以说明一些问题，那就是一种守旧的思想使得他们极不情愿去承认他们国家所存在的问题，特别是在一个以纳粹德国和法西斯主义的征服者自居的国家里。

He clammed up over their possible future moves .

对于他们今后可能采取的步骤，他保持缄默。

SIGNIFICANT.--Mr. Twain, it will be observed, is suggestively silent about the Cochin China perjury.

&意味深长——大家都会注意到：吐温先生对交趾支那伪证案一事一直发人深省地保持缄默。&

Hyundai isn't keeping quiet about its future product line, with the company's U.S. chief previously revealing details about the company's future hybrid and electric plans and now details about the company's replacement for the Tiburon.

现代不是保持缄默其未来产品线，与该公司的美国首席此前透露详细了解公司未来的混合动力和电力的计划，现在详细介绍该公司的置换蒂伯龙。

Yet the US, quiet on human rights and muted on the renminbi, may be underselling itself.

然而，美国在人权和人民币问题上保持缄默，可能是在自降身价。

David Cameron, who leads them, spoke out as a backbencher in favour of reclassifying ecstasy but has now clammed up.

保守党领导人大卫·科麦隆担任下座议员时曾声言支持对迷幻药进行重新归类，但现在他已对此保持缄默。

Both parties are deservedly upbraided for their reticence on exactly how to cut the fiscal deficit.

两党对到期如何削减财政预算而保持缄默，因此应该受到责备。

To understand what his silence on this question says about the meaning of anatta, we first have to look at his teachings on how questions should be asked and answered, and how to interpret his answers.

为了理解他对这个问题保持缄默意味着anatta 的释义是什么，我们首先必须阅读他的教导，有关怎样提出问题、解答问题、以及怎样理解他的答复。

Also, at the opposite end of the spectrum, there are Muslim doubters, revisionists and reformers, who have had to mute their voices for fear of being branded apostates.

另一方面，与上述人迥然不同的是那些持怀疑、修正或改革态度的伊斯兰教徒。他们因惧怕被打上叛教者的烙印而被迫保持缄默。

Despite their reticence about layoffs, many companies are already looking for ways to reduce headcount.

尽管对裁员保持缄默，但许多公司已经在考虑减少用工人数的办法。

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。