Mute

(noun.) a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument.

(noun.) a deaf person who is unable to speak.

(adj.) expressed without speech; 'a mute appeal'; 'a silent curse'; 'best grief is tongueless'- Emily Dickinson; 'the words stopped at her lips unsounded'; 'unspoken grief'; 'choking exasperation and wordless shame'- Thomas Wolfe .

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• I wish you, ma'am, good night, said she to Mrs. Bretton; but she passed me mute. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• As to Paulina, the child was at once happy and mute, busy and watchful. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Gerald's father had looked wistful, to break the heart: but not this last terrible look of cold, mute Matter. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• There were many mute Marco Polos who never met their Rusticianos, and history has not preserved their names. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Dreadful question: there was no one here to answer it--not even dumb sign, mute token. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• We don't know,' said Mr. Tupman, answering this mute appeal aloud. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I could not, and would not, sit silent with all that beauty modestly mute in my presence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The new arrival was the Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil, who had once visited Bell’s school for deaf-mutes in Boston. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• His father was a teacher of vocal physiology at Edinburgh, and he himself became a teacher of deaf mutes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Some people ought to have mutes for servants in Vanity Fair--mutes who could not write. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He had already had very considerable success in teaching deaf-mutes to talk by visible speech, or sign-language, and this success was repeated in Canada. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• But his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Bell had presented his stock in the company to his wife on their wedding-day, and he now took up afresh the work of his boyhood and youth, the teaching of deaf-mutes. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Birkin, who looked muted, unreal, his presence left out, introduced her as Miss Darrington. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It came faint, muted, dry and far away. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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