silencing

英 [ˈsaɪlənsɪŋ]

美 [ˈsaɪlənsɪŋ]

v.  使安静; 使不说话; 压制，使不再发表(反对意见)
silence的现在分词

现在分词：silencing　

BNC.48316 / COCA.28455

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 沉默;缄默;不作声
  If there issilence, nobody is speaking.
  1. They stood in silence...
     他们默不作声地站着。
  2. He never lets those long silences develop during dinner...
     他从不会让晚餐时出现长时间的沉默。
  3. Then he bellowed 'Silence!'
     然后他怒吼一声：“安静!”
• N-UNCOUNT 寂静;无声
  The silence ofa place is the extreme quietness there.
  1. ...the silence of that rainless, all-concealing fog...
     滴雨未下、隐藏一切的大雾静默无声
  2. She breathed deeply, savouring the silence.
     她深深地吸了口气，细细品味着这宁静。
• N-UNCOUNT 缄默;绝口不提;闭口不谈
  Someone'ssilenceabout something is their failure or refusal to speak to other people about it.
  1. The district court ruled that Popper's silence in court today should be entered as a plea of not guilty.
     区法院裁定今天波珀在法庭上的缄默将被视作是进行无罪抗辩。
• VERB 使安静;使无声;使不说话
  Tosilencesomeone or something means to stop them speaking or making a noise.
  1. A ringing phone silenced her...
     响起的电话铃声让她安静了下来。
  2. The shock silenced him completely.
     他惊得哑口无言。
• VERB 制止，使不再发表(反对意见)
  If someonesilencesyou, they stop you expressing opinions that they do not agree with.
  1. Like other tyrants, he tried to silence anyone who spoke out against him.
     像其他暴君一样，他力图压制任何公开反对他的人。
  2. ...an unsuccessful attempt by the government to silence the debate.
     政府试图压制争论但未果
• VERB 杀…灭口
  Tosilencesomeone means to kill them in order to stop them revealing something secret.
  1. A hit man had been sent to silence her over the affair.
     为了掩盖这件事，已经派出一名职业杀手去杀她灭口。

双语例句

• His statement was a way of stilling doubts and silencing rumours.
  他的声明是消除怀疑和平息谣言的一种办法。
• They did this by simultaneously silencing the faulty gene and inserting a healthy one to replace it.
  为了做到这一点，他们让缺陷基因沉默，同时植入一个健康基因来替代它。
• In plants, RNA silencing exists as a natural defense mechanism against plant viruses.
  在植物中，RNA沉默是一种抵抗外界植物病毒入侵的自然机制。
• Everybody thought these soldiers belong to the RNA silencing machinery, as the rule says.
  依据这个规则，所有人都认为这些‘士兵’就是RNA沉默机器。
• Plants use these epigenetic silencing mechanisms extensively to control development and parent-of-origin imprinted gene expression.
  植物广泛地使用这些表观沉默机制来控制发育及亲本来源的印记基因表达。
• Recalls: GM sold 267,461 cars and trucks in June, far exceeding expectations and temporarily silencing its critics.
  召回：今年六月，通用汽车一共卖出了267461台轿车和卡车，远远超过了此前的预期，也暂时平息了批评人士的口舌。
• He can keep matters under control by silencing the demonstrators and others who think like them
  他可以通过压制示威者和与他们观点相同的人来控制住事态。
• The technology of controlling noise in the outlet-designing and applying the silencing tower is mainly introduced.
  针对风机噪声介绍出口噪声治理技术&消声塔设计和使用。
• Through ultrafast gene sequencing and targeted gene silencing techniques, researchers have identified genes critical to viral infection and drug resistance.
  研究人员已经通过快速基因测序及靶基因沉默技术，确定了对病毒感染及抗药性至关重要的基因。
• The screen works by silencing each gene in turn to assess its effect on how well the drug works.
  筛选工作通过沉默每个基因来评估该基因在药物作用中的功能。