闭口不言

If legal action is taken, employers go to increasingly greater lengths to keep targets quiet, usually by offering a small out-of-court settlement with a comprehensive gagging clause

如果采取了法律行动，雇主会不会不断加大努力，让目标人缄口不言，通常是提供一笔庭外费用。。和内容详尽的闭嘴条款。

He always clam up when we mentioned his family.

我们一问到他的家庭时，他总是闭口不言。

He always clams up when we ask his family.

我们一问到他的家庭时，他总是闭口不言。

He always clams up whenever asked about his family.

我们一问到他的家庭时，他总是闭口不言。

I think we have made too much of this tight-lipped endurance.

我认为我们太看重这种闭口不言的忍耐。

There is an incentive to collude with other suppliers to boost prices, just as two prisoners have good reason to keep mum about their crime.

与其他供应商一起哄抬价格的动机，就像2个囚徒在他们的罪行方面都闭口不言。

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。