mute

mute¹[mju:t]

• adj.
  • 沉默的，缄默的
  • 哑的；不会说话的
  • 无言的；无声的；不说话的
  • 【语音学】哑音的；无音的
  • 【法律】默不答辩的；拒不作答的
  • (猎狗追猎时)不狂吠的
  • 【电影】无声的；画面的
• n.
  • 哑巴
  • 【语音学】哑音；无音
  • 【法律】默不作答者；拒不作答者
  • 【音乐】(乐器的)弱音器，消音器[亦作sordino]
  • 【电影】无声片；画面
  • 哑剧演员
  • [废语] 雇用的送葬人
• vt.
  • 减弱…的声音：

    to play the violin with muted strings

    演奏加了弱音器的小提琴

  • 柔和…的色调；使(批评等)变温和；缓和：

    They muted the propaganda campaign later.

    后来，他们降低了宣传运动的调子。

• 近义词:

  voiceless

• 短语:
  • (as)mute as a fish(或mouse) 默不作声，一声不响
  • stand mute of malice 【法律】(在法庭上)对被控罪名拒不答辩
• 变形:

  vt.muted.muting

mute²[mu:t]

• • [古语]
• vi.,vt.
  • (鸟)排泄；拉屎
• n.
  • 鸟粪

• macrosporic
• dogmatized
• carve something up
• grease guns
• oolemma
• montero
• idler wheel
• pontificated
• anti-religious rationalism
• undercapitalize
• radioactive decay
• feast your eyes (on sb/sth)
• example of
• datura
• sprightlily
• chorionic somatomammotropin
• succeed at the first go
• dissolubly
• quadrivalence
• Book of Changes
• hop,skip,and jump
• OCD
• eco-activists
• mastic
• homestead
• bunk up
• Barkhausen-Kurz oscillator
• be hard at
• just like mother used to make it
• lay down one's life
• playway
• Caen
• video display terminal
• la platas
• piebalds
• Frobenius reciprocity theorem
• electrophoreses
• demand
• thugs
• let in for
• furiousness
• blankety-blank-blank
• warfarins
• will he , nill he
• phosphate glass
• Gaiaist
• scrub sth↔off
• sitter
• anorexigenic
• have a word with
• circumcision
• European letter telegram
• subculture
• sidebar
• motorcoaches
• Anterograde Amnesias
• conductivity water
• string-pullers
• out of the reach
• dinning
• disculpations
• Antony
• breast up to
• exility
• make sure work with something
• horse room
• megalocephalies
• angular momentum operator
• reciprocator
• Corliss, George Henry
• definiteness
• fall into a passion
• lay one's heart bare
• takeovers
• Punch-and Judy
• break the silence
• slavelike
• arborists
• ousters
• Saint Pierre and Miquelon
• counterprogram
• free tree
• fly-strike
• pull every string
• look (like) oneself(或 one's usual self)
• leak in
• be out of your mind with worry, etc.
• on sb's knee
• bulk photoconductor
• basilect
• modally
• moth-eatens
• call into being
• introflexion
• a dog's dinner
• amniographies
• being that
• cock and bull story
• untowardnesses
• .pbl