闭口不言的

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。

In France, in most cases, one quickly shows signs of impatience, by raising one's eyes to the ceiling with an exasperated expression, by taking on an exhausted look, by stiffening or clamming up, or by exchanging with others glances of complicity. But one does not speak to others--all is expressed through body movements. At most, one might protest,"grumble" out loud while looking at one's neighbor, but without speaking to him directly. One simply makes him an accomplice against the cashier, the store, the system, those who are "going too far". In the Unite States, the situation is completely different.

在拥挤的超市里，人们排起长长的队伍等候结帐，多数情况下，法国人很快就显出不耐烦，他们或恼怒地两眼望天，或露出疲惫不堪的表情，或挺直了身子闭口不言，或彼此交换同病相怜的眼神，总之，谁也不和谁说话，最多也就是看看相邻的人，发句牢骚，根本没有说话的意思，所有的情绪都通过体态动作来表现，人们完全把自己与收银员、商店、制度和那些太极端的人相对立起来；而在美国，情形将会大不相同。

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。

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。