Mute

1Early one morning I saw the Mute Singer washing at the river.一天清晨，我看見“沉默的歌手”在河邊洗澡。

2Not so with the Mute Singer. They dropped their pennies gently into his cup.對“沉默的歌手”不是這樣。他們輕輕地把硬幣扔進他的杯子裏。

3In a word, should he be the sinister mute of destiny beside these two happy beings?總之一句話，在這兩個幸福的人身旁，他將是命運陰森的啞巴？

4In his role here as a mute, as an infant, Christ is serving, I think, an important function for Milton.基督在這裏的角色是一個啞巴，一個嬰兒，我認為，他對彌爾頓起到了很重要的作用。

5A world war will leave only smoldering ashes as mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to ultimate death.一場世界大戰所留下的只是悶燃的灰燼，無聲地證明了人類的愚蠢，最終無情地走向死亡。

6In nearly every language, however the words are phrased, the most basic division in cinema history lies between films that are mute and films that speak.幾乎每一種語言中，無論措辭，電影史最基本的劃分都在於無聲和有聲電影之間。

7What we think we know derives chiefly from archeological evidence, which is before writing--mute evidence that has to be interpreted and is very complicated.我們目前所認為的史實，主要都是從考古證據中所得，這些無聲的證據出現於文字記錄之前，因此就需要繁複的考證及解讀。

8He was mute, distant, and indifferent.他緘默無言，對人疏遠而且冷漠。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》

9She thought it better to mute her criticism.她覺得還是婉轉地提出批評比較好。《牛津詞典》

10The child sat mute in the corner of the room.這孩子坐在屋子的角落裏，一聲不吭。《牛津詞典》

11He could watch her standing mute by the phone.他能看到她緘默地站在電話旁。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》

12They begin to mute their voices, not be as assertive.他們開始放低嗓門，不再那麼肯定了。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》

13Marianna, the duke's daughter, became mute after a shock.公爵的女兒瑪麗安娜在一場驚嚇之後失語了。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》

14Before the lesson starts, mute yourself!在課程開始前，請保持安靜！

15This could help deaf-mute people "talk" to each other in the future.這可以幫助聾啞人未來互相“交談”。

16Night stood still and mute.夜之神站着不動，一言不發。

17The only buttons on the S5 speaker console itself are volume and mute.S5揚聲器本身的控制面板上唯一的按鈕是音量和靜音。

18At the door, she encountered Miss Rottenmeier, who stared at Heidi in mute surprise.她在門口遇到了羅特麥耶小姐，她默默地驚訝地看着海蒂。

19These waterways seem mute in comparison to the world's two longest rivers—the Nile and the Amazon.與世界上最長的兩條河流——尼羅河和亞馬遜河相比，這些水道顯得黯然失色。

20About 20 minutes into the call he pressed the mute button and said, "Peter, say something. Anything."在電話裏大約20分鐘，他按了靜音按鈕，然後説：“皮特，説點什麼，什麼都可以。”

21His mute and illiterate mother, and her extended family, raised her two sons in a small flat in Algiers with neither a lavatory nor running water.他沉默寡言目不識丁的母親和她的大家庭在阿爾及爾的一間小公寓裏撫養她的兩個兒子，那裏既沒有廁所，也沒有自來水。

22The social network will let users "mute" messages from other users on their timelines without the muted person's knowledge, thereby avoiding the awkward.該社交網絡允許用户在其他用户不知情的情況下設置其消息免打擾，從而避免尷尬。

23Our ability to mute our hard-wired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals: dogs can think about the future only intermittently or for a few minutes.我們能夠通過暫停來消除我們固有的反應，這是我們與動物的不同之處：狗思考未來只能斷斷續續地或只能維持幾分鐘。

24The boy was born a deaf-mute.這男孩天生聾啞。《新英漢大辭典》

25His wife was mute on the subject.他的妻子對此話題保持緘默。

26It was the Mute Singer still holding his guitar.原來是沉默的歌手，他依然拿着吉他。

27The Mute Singer was a tall, strange-looking man.“沉默的歌手”是個高個，面色有些古怪。

28Also recognize when to mute your characters.也要明確什麼時候該讓你的角色保持沉默。

29Now it's mute.現在它無聲無息。

30He's a deaf mute and cannot tell anyone secret.他是個聾啞人，不會把他們的秘密告訴任何人。