保持缄默

In Trent's Last Case (often called "the perfect detective story") you have to accept the premise that a giant of international finance, whose lightest frown makes Wall Street quiver like a chihuahua, will plot his own death so as to hang his secretary, and that the secretary when pinched will maintain an aristocratic silence; the old Etonian in him maybe.

在《特伦特的最后一个案件》（常常被称为完美无缺的侦探小说）中，你得接受这样的前提：一个稍一皱眉就会使华尔街索索发抖的国际金融巨头，为了要把自己的秘书送上纹刑架而策划自己的死亡，而且那个秘书给逼得走投无路时竟能保持高贵的缄默，也许那是他身上的伊顿使风（伊顿公学是英国一所最著名的贵族子弟中学）。

How for nine years you could be patient and quiescent under any treatment.

这九年来你是如何面对各种遭遇保持耐心和缄默的……我永远也不可能知道。

If a man k p his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.

人若能够保持缄默的话，人们自会长途跋涉至他家门口来的。

If Mr Howard continues to say nothing, more damaging ructions are likely.

如果霍华德仍旧保持缄默，可能会造成更多破坏性的争论。

Could He have spoken any word to heal the bruises of sin-sick souls, He would not have kept silent.

如需要说什么话来医治患罪病之人的创伤，他是不会保持缄默的。

Do you try to keep mum about the relationship, or is it better to risk your job and announce it to the world?

你会努力在这种关系上保持缄默，还是冒着工作的风险向众人宣布？

As a rule,githzerai are close-mouthed,keep their own counsel,and trust few outside their own kind.

作为法则，吉斯瑟雷人通常会紧闭嘴唇以保持缄默，并且很少相信他们之外的种族。

Still he would not name his accomplices, and to this day he has kept silent about them.

他一直不肯说出同谋的名字。至今，他仍对此保持缄默。

Many of the parents have also been subjected to intimidation and financial inducements to silence them.

很多家长已经屈服于威胁和经济诱惑而保持缄默。

Instead, as a prominent Nalchik businessman puts it, the Kremlin trusts local strongmen to keep things quiet and,"No one asks any questions."

如同Nalchik当地一位声名显赫的商人说的那样，克里姆林宫不搞民主，反而期望当地的强力人物来维持事态的稳定，并且&人人对此保持缄默。&

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。