守口如瓶

The old hermit was very cagey about her past life .

老隐士对自己过去的生活守口如瓶。

The old recluse was very cagey about her past life.

老隐士对自己过去的生活守口如瓶。

Like a Texas cattleman, he keeps the size of his herd secret. But he said warmer temperatures in fall and spring were melting the top layers of snow, which then refreeze as ice, making it harder for his reindeer to dig through to the lichen they eat.

象德克萨斯州的养牛人，他对自己放养的驯鹿数量守口如瓶，但是他说，春秋两季气温上升，导致表层雪融化，天冷后结成冰，驯鹿就更难于刨食到地表的植物。

I don't know why he held his cards close to his chest.

我不知道他为何一直守口如瓶。

Chon, the silent one, played an invaluable role because she carried messages hidden in her clothes without making Luisa Santiaga uneasy or offending her modesty, for she could not read or write, and would die to keep a secret.

沉默寡言的Chon亦在其中起了不可估量的作用，因为她不懂读写，且又守口如瓶，由她将邮件藏于她的衣物中携带，既不会使Luisa Santiage不自在，也无损于她的矜持。

She is a clam about her past.

她对自己的过去守口如瓶。

He is a clam about his clambake.

他对那次社交集会的事情守口如瓶。

He is close about his own affairs.

他对自己的事守口如瓶

He was close about his past.

他对他的过去守口如瓶。

We would like to know the truth, but he did't disclose anything.

我们想要知道实情，他却守口如瓶。

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。