保持缄默 meaning in Chinese
bit the tongue
bite one's tongue
bite the tongue
hold one"s tongue
keeping mum
Examples
- The officials maintained silence about the talks ...
官员们对于会谈情况保持缄默。 - Therefore we'd much better take the matter quietly .
因此我们最好还是对此事保持缄默。 - I felt the reasons for your silence, and i feared to seem importunate, by writing .
我感觉到你保持缄默事出有因，给你写信会使你觉得我纠缠不休。 - It was precisely because kathleen was a woman to whom i could talk that i kept silent .
正因为凯丝琳是个与我心照不宣的女人，所以我才保持缄默。 - It is not despair of success that keeps me dumb
我不是因为毫无成功的希望而保持缄默。