Silence Keeping Mum keep mum button up one´s mouth keep your mouth closed/shut bite your tongue
The officials maintained a wall of silence around the talks.
官员们对于会谈情况保持缄默。
—— 给力词典精选We should not pass over this disgraceful affair in silence.
我们不应对这件可耻的事保持缄默。
—— 给力词典精选Detectives have run into a conspiracy of silence in the tight-knit communities of the peninsula.
侦探们犯了难,半岛上各个群体抱成一团,达成了保持缄默的密约。
—— 柯林斯例句They had bribed her into silence.
他们贿赂她使其保持缄默。
—— 辞典例句They tried to buy his silence, ie to pay him not to reveal a secret.
他们想收买他让他保持缄默(不泄露秘密)。
—— 辞典例句