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adj.沉默寡言的¹⁰⁰副词taciturnly名词taciturnity
安静直率
Adjective:
habitually reserved and uncommunicative来自 tacit,安静的，-urn,形容词后缀。引申词义不苟言笑的。钱博士tac缄默不语+it拉丁语动词的过去分词后缀，等于ed，表示动作已经完成+urn形容词后缀→缄默不语的⇒沉默寡言的，不苟言笑的
词根tac-缄默不语来自拉丁语。tac缄默不语+it拉丁语动词的过去分词后缀，等于ed，表示动作已经完成+urn形容词后缀→缄默不语的⇒沉默寡言的，不苟言笑的。GRE难词记忆taciturn→taciturn and phlegmatic a.沉默寡言，冷漠无情GRE红宝书tacit沉默，不说话 + turn变得→变得沉默寡言近义词 shy腼腆的quiet安静的aloof疏远的silent安静的distant疏远的reserved保留的alienated疏远的reticent寡言少语的introverted性格内向的…uncommunicative不爱说话的反义词 voluble健谈的talkative喜欢说话的
Ptaciturnityn.沉默寡言无言不太说话
形容词77%,名词23%
用作形容词He didn't say anything because he was sotaciturn.他不说一句话,因为他是如此沉默寡言。
He wastaciturnand unsociable,and rarely spoke to you.他总是不声不响，冷冰冰的，难得跟你交谈。adj.uncommunicative
同义词 aloof,dour,laconic,reticentantisocial,brooding,clammed up,close,close-mouthed,cold,curt,distant,dried-up,dumb,mum,mute,quiet,reserved,sententious,silent,sparing,speechless,tight-lipped,unexpressive,unforthcoming,withdrawn
反义词 communicative,fluent,talkative,wordy
closeadjective secretive, reserved
buttoned-up,buttoning one's lip,clamming up,close-lipped,closemouthed,hidden,hush-hush,mum's the word,private,reticent,retired,secluded,secretive,silent,tight chops,tight-lipped,uncommunicative,unforthcoming,zipping one's lips
close-mouthedadjective tightlipped
incommunicable,incommunicative,quiet,reserved,reticent,secretive,silent,taciturn,uncommunicable,uncommunicative,untalkative
closemouthedadjective silent, reserved
buttoned-up,clammed up,close,close-lipped,dummied up,have tight chops,hush-hush,quiet,reticent,sedate,taciturn,tight-lipped,uncommunicative,zipped one's lips
impassiveadjective aloof, cool
apathetic,callous,cold,cold-blooded,collected,composed,dispassionate,dry,emotionless,hardened,heartless,imperturbable,indifferent,indurated,inexcitable,inexpressive,inscrutable,insensible,insusceptible,matter-of-fact,nonchalant,passionless,phlegmatic,placid,poker-faced,reserved,reticent,sedate,self-contained,serene,spiritless,stoic,stoical,stolid,taciturn,unconcerned,unemotional,unexcitable,unfeeling,unflappable,unimpressible,unmoved,unruffled,wooden
inobtrusiveadjective quiet
buttoned-up,clammed up,close,close-mouthed,could hear a pin drop,dumb,hushed,hushful,inaudible,low,low-pitched,muffled,mute,muted,noiseless,not saying boo,peaceful,quiescent,quieted,reserved,restrained,reticent,secretive,silent,soft,soundless,speechless,still,stilled,subdued,taciturn,tasteful,tight-lipped,uncommunicative,unexpressed,unobtrusive,unspeaking,unuttered,whist
moroseadjective depressed, pessimistic
acrimonious,blue,brusque,cantankerous,choleric,churlish,crabbed,crabby,cranky,cross,dolorous,dour,down,down in the dumps,down in the mouth,frowning,gloomy,glum,grouchy,gruff,harsh,having blue devils,having the blahs,ill-humored,ill-tempered,in a bad mood,in a blue funk,irritable,low,melancholy,moody,moping,mournful,perverse,perversive,sad,saturnine,singing the blues,snappish,sour,splenetic,sulky,sullen,surly,taciturn,testy,troubled,ugly Seiji Miyaguchi, who played the taciturn samurai Kyuzo, had not touched a sword at all before this movie.
扮演沉默寡言的武士久藏的宫口精二在拍摄本片之前从未碰过剑。 moviepub
“ At the Council board he was taciturn; and in the House of Lords he never opened his lips” Macaulay.
“在众议院他沉默寡言；在参议院中他从不开口”： 麦考莱。 odict.net
A towering figure on the links, the taciturn Texan seemingly came from nowhere to win successive US Opens in 1937 and1938, and then the Masters in 1939.
作为高尔夫球场上的杰出人物，这个寡言少语的德州人似乎是从天而降，连续摘取了1937年和1938年的美国公开赛以及1939年的美国大师赛的桂冠。 yeeyan
Both are rebels from Korea's crippling and prohibitively expensive treadmill of education, marriage and family, hailed as the be- all and end- all by the taciturn older generation.
他们都是韩国教育、婚姻和家庭单调模式的反叛者，而在缄默的老一代人看来，这些危害深重、费用高昂的模式乃是人生的最终目标。 hjenglish
But for Charles Dickens, another foreign visitor to America in the19th century, it was the Americans who seemed taciturn.
不过19世纪美国的另一位外国游客 Charles Dickens则认为，美国人才是沉默寡言。 ecocn
He’s what you would expect of the older members: bearded, taciturn, and lip-pursed.
他和你所想象的老家伙的样子一样:留着胡子，抿着嘴唇，口风很紧。 yeeyan
He is impatient and taciturn in society, preferring to spin inner dialogues and listen to the silence of infinite spaces and the songs of birds.
他在人类社会中缺乏耐心又沉默寡言，倾心于杜撰精神的对话以及聆听无穷太空的沉寂和鸟类的歌声。 douban
He may be in Venezuela or working as a suspiciously taciturn short-order chef in a falafel bar in Tripoli.
他也许在委内瑞拉，或是乔装成的黎波里某个快餐店里沉默寡言的厨师。 yeeyan
Or was their replacement by taciturn introverts telling me something else?
或者是他们用那些沉默寡言的人们作为替代用来告诉我另外的一些东西？ yeeyan
The interviewer was of the serious, taciturn type, but I could tell the answer registered.
面试官是那种不苟言笑的类型，不过我敢说我的回答很合他意。 ebigear
The threat of which arrives in the person of Zhang Sun Honglei, a taciturn detective hired by Wang to kill the adulterous couple.
随着冷血杀手张三孙红雷饰的介入，真正的威胁降临了，此人是王五麻子雇来谋害老板娘和李四的。 yeeyan
The wit, charm, skill, and bravery of boxer Muhammad Ali are forever memorable because of his fight with the taciturn, brooding, and brutally dangerous George Foreman in1974.
拳王阿里正是在1974年与沉默少言，凶狠危险的乔治弗里曼的交锋中，展现出自己的智慧，魅力和超高技术的。 iciba
This prompted Michael Smith, the hitherto taciturn dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to react.
此前哈佛大学艺术与科学学院的院长迈克尔•史密斯一直保持缄默，这篇文章迫使他做出反应。 ecocn
Transparency did at least take a small step forwards at Wells Fargo, America’s fourth-biggest bank by assets and its most taciturn.
在增强透明度方面，全美银行中资产排行第四的富国银行不声不响地迈出了一小步。 ecocn.org
WALK into the inn in the Hokkaido village of Akanko, and everything from the welcoming cry of“irasshaimase” to the taciturn old man grilling chicken on the fire seems quintessentially Japanese.
一走进北海道阿寒村的小旅馆，就会听到热情的店员高呼“欢迎光临”，看到一声不响的老伯伯在某个角落烤着鸡。这似乎就是典型的日本风情。 yeeyan
We took a floatplane to the trail head. Our taciturn guide pointed out that it was this robust aircraft that had helped to open up the wilderness in the Fifties.
我们乘坐一架水上飞机来到小道的顶端，沉默寡言的导游指着飞机说，五十年代人们正是在这种飞机的得力帮助下开拓荒野。 yeeyan
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
你我的性格跟人家都不大合得来，又不愿意多说话，难得开口，除非想说几句一鸣惊人的话，让大家当作格言来流传千古。 hjenglish
WELL before he died of cancer in2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being “ enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding”.
早在2008年哈罗德•品特因癌症去世之前，他就完全知道自己赢得了“高深莫测、沉默寡言、简洁、多刺、暴躁以及难以亲近”的名声。 ecocn |