缄默

The object studied was an elementary school third grader who had selective mutism. He was a referral by a doctor in a child development center. Before giving the sandplay therapy, the object and his mother were consulted.

本研究采用个案研究法，以成功大学附设教学医院儿童发展中心医师转介的一位国小二年级选择性缄默症儿童为研究对象。

One would think every child in Tevershall, for the last fifty years, had been an immaculate conception, and every one of our nonconformist females was a shining Joan of Arc.

但是普通的廉耻心不再存在了，矿工的妻子们从头到脚都武装起来了，再也无法使她们缄默了。

That is an interesting picture, one person, one dog, one is moving while another is still, one is singing while another is silent. You and your Pekingese produced a sharp contrast, but both of you are integrated in a disorderly and busy space, which is very photogenic.

刘增银：这是一种很有意思的画面，一个人、一只狗，一动一静，一边哼哼唱唱，一边缄默不语，两个反差很大的物态，被统一在一个零乱、忙碌的空间里，很有镜头感。

It would be less than exact to say that the pedagogical institution has imposed a ponderous silence on the sex of children and adolescents.

由此可见，认为教育机构强加给儿童和青少年的性，一种沉闷的缄默是不确切的。

Without even having to pronounce the word, modern prudishness was able to ensure that one did not speak of sex, merely through the interplay of prohibitions that referred back to one another: instances of muteness which, by dint of saying nothing, imposed silence.

除了不发出"性"这个单词，现代守礼准则为了保证人们绝不谈论性，并不仅仅在人与人之间相互传递禁令，要想凭藉避而不谈，达到持续的缄默显然是不够的，还有审查制度。

When faced with injustice in society, remaining quiescent is no option for a man of integrity.

面对社会上的不公义，诚实正直的人不会保持缄默。

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。

We have the right to remain silent.

我们都有保持缄默的权利。

There are sound and perhaps compelling reasons for this reticence.

保持缄默可能有必要且令人信服的理由。

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

一个坚固婚姻的基础不是完全的坦白，而是懂得在什么时候保持缄默。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。