1.
Where gold speak, every tongue is silent.
黄金说话，人人缄口。
2.
He that knows not how to hold his tongue, knows not how to talk.
不懂得如何缄口的人，不懂得如何开口。
3.
Everyone was sworn to secrecy about what had happened.
大家都发誓对所发生的事缄口不言。
4.
We went over the House of Correction...to witness the operation of the silent system. (Ch. Dickens, Sketches by Boz)
我们走到感化院，……去看囚犯缄口制的实行情况。
5.
We drifted forward with rigid motions, limbs stiff and voices silent.
我们缓缓地往前走，动作呆板，手足僵硬，缄口不语。
6.
It was only a substantial meal that could induce in him even a passing taciturnity.
只有实实在在的一顿饭才能使他暂时缄口无言。
7.
For years she never came to me for advice but I continued to submit it.
多年来她都缄口不提此事，但是我仍继续给她建议。
8.
The man admitted in court that he had been given hush money to say nothing about the stolen diamonds.
那家伙在法庭上承认他接受了不声张有关钻石被窃真相的缄口贿。
9.
We all fell speechless, and then from the valley ahead a strange cry drifted down to us.
我们顿然缄口，安静下来，之后从前面的山谷传来一声怪异的喊叫。
10.
This was what closed his mouth now--now that the jungle had been threshed to vacancy and that the beast had stolen away.
既然丛林已化为乌有，野兽也已偷偷离去，他也就因此缄口不谈。
11.
Owen Hargreaves is remaining tight-lipped over his desire to leave Bayern Munich for United.
对于他要从拜仁转会到曼联的希望，哈格里夫斯依然缄口不语。
12.
"But not to suggest more obvious reasons, it may be that they are kept silent by the very constitution of their nature.
“不过，不必去设想更加明显的原因，我们就可以说，他们之所以缄口不言，正是出于他们的本性。
13.
keep one's mouth shut
保持缄默,三缄其口
14.
What soBerness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
清醒缄其口，酒醉吐真言。
15.
She clammed up when people mentioned her son.
人们一提起他儿子,她就三缄其口。
16.
A small disk of adhesive material used as a seal for papers.
封缄纸用于信件封口的小片粘着物
17.
People do not want to be misunderstood, so they rather remain silent.
人们不希望被误解，宁可三缄其口。
18.
At the council broad he was taciturn and never opened his lips.
董事会上，他三缄其口，没有发言。