人不出聲、不說話
同一個「沒有聲音」落在人身上。人本來是會出聲的，所以他不出聲就變成一件有意義的事——旁邊的人會去讀那份安靜代表什麼。
not speaking now · adjective · B1
Not saying anything; not speaking at this moment.
沉默的 / 不出聲的
核心畫面
No sound coming out. Picture an empty classroom at night — you can hear your own breathing because nothing else is making a sound. That absence is the whole word. Point it at a room and you get stillness; point it at a person and you get someone not speaking; point it at a film or a letter in a word and you get something that could have made a sound but does not.
可以想成「沒有聲音發出來」。畫面是夜裡空掉的教室——你聽得見自己的呼吸，因為別的東西都不出聲。整個字就是這個「沒有」…更多收起
可以想成「沒有聲音發出來」。畫面是夜裡空掉的教室——你聽得見自己的呼吸，因為別的東西都不出聲。整個字就是這個「沒有」。把它指向一個空間，得到的是寂靜；指向一個人，得到的是不開口；指向一部電影或一個字母，得到的是「本來可以出聲，但它沒有」。From the picture
該有聲音的地方沒發出聲音
這一組講的不是安靜的環境，而是某個東西身上「本該有的那份聲音」不見了：電影少了對白和配樂，字母少了它的發音。畫面還是「沒有聲音」，只是缺口出現在一個你預期會有聲音的位置。
silent film · adjective · B1
A silent film shows moving pictures but has no recorded sound or spoken words.
無聲的（電影）
Also in this word
no sound · adjective · B1
Without any sound; making no sound at all.
寂靜的 / 無聲的
原始詞典資料16 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Silentnoun
- 1
A member of the Silent Generation.
- From Ali (technically a Silent who was born in 1942), to Tommie Smith's medal-stand protest, to Joe Namath's Super Bowl prediction to the hair-raising Oakland A's and the raucous Bronx Zoo Yankees of the 1970s, to the outbursts of Connors and McEnroe on the tennis court, to King's tireless push for women's equality off it, this was a generation unafraid of offering opinions.
- In a somewhat bizarre set of survey data from 2015, 33 percent of Millennials identified as Gen X, and 8 percent said that they were Boomers. Fifteen percent of Gen Xers said that they identified as Boomers, while a baffled 2 percent of Boomers and 4 percent of Silents thought of themselves as Millennials.
silentadj/ˈsaɪ̯lənt/
- 1
Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
- How silent is this town!
- What was formerly performed by fleets and armies, by invasions, sieges, and battles, has been of late accomplished by more silent methods.
- 2
Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
- Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men.
- This new-created world, whereof in hell / Fame is not silent.
- 3
Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.
- The winds were silent, all the waves asleep, / And heaven was trac'd upon the flattering deep
- 4
Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.
- The e is silent in fable.
- Silent letters can make some words difficult to spell.
- 5
Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
- Cause […] silent, virtueless, and dead.
- 6
engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesWith the sound turned off; usually on silent or in silent mode.
- My phone was on silent.
- 7
engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesWithout audio capability.
- The Magnavox Odyssey was a silent console.
- 8
Hidden, unseen.
- a silent voter; a silent partner
另外 4 個記錄的用法
- 9
Of an edit or change to a text, not explicitly acknowledged.
- silent revisions; a silent emendation
- [T]he use of both acknowledged and unacknowledged (silent) translations of non-English sources makes it difficult for users to determine if a certain term genuinely appeared in an English-language text.
- 10
biologygeneticsmedicineNot implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.
- 11
Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.
- 12
Of distilled spirit: having no flavour or odour.
silentnoun/ˈsaɪ̯lənt/
- 1
That which is silent; a time of silence.
- Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night.
- 2
A silent movie
- More than 40 films will be shown spanning the past seventy-five years, including early silents and talkies, contemporary productions, foreign and American films, documentaries, underground works and television shows.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。