Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.

他希望发现一个没有听到母语的孩子会说什么语言，他让护士们保持沉默。

youdao

Imagine. A man so protective and nervous of his own reputation that he sought to keep some of the ideas he thought might alienate his public silent for 500 years.

想象一下，一个人对自己的声誉如此想要保护、如此紧张，他试图让可能使人们与自己疏远的想法沉默了500年。

youdao

He sponsored his own television channel and newspaper, and may have spent some $100m over the years, in gifts and share purchases, to keep dozens of favoured voices from falling silent.

他拥有自己的电视台和报纸，更在过去数年中投入好几百万美元收购股权，为避免有利的声音慢慢沉默。

youdao

He advises the trader to keep silent.

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He is silent as he does so, as if he thought he might keep the fire a secret and extinguish it by himself before anyone can learn of his foolishness.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Woodsburner'

Soon after, however, he quieted, and one university employee told me that all others were instructed to keep silent as well.

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