mute
mute 英 [mju:t] 美 [mjut]
adj. 哑的；沉默的 vt. 减弱……的声音 n. 哑巴；弱音器
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- Mute means “silent.” No matter how much you talk to your houseplants, they’ll never talk back; they'll remain mute.
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- adj. 哑的；沉默的
- vt. 减弱……的声音
- n. 哑巴；弱音器
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1. a look of mute appeal
默默请求的表情
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2. The child sat mute in the corner of the room.
这孩子坐在屋子的角落里，一声不吭。
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3. He muted the strings with his palm.
他用手掌抹琴弦消音。
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4. She thought it better to mute her criticism.
她觉得还是婉转地提出批评比较好。
- mute (adj.) late 14c., mewet "silent," from Old French muet "dumb, mute" (12c.), diminutive of mut, mo, from Latin mutus "silent, speechless, dumb," probably from imitative base *meue- (source also of Sanskrit mukah "dumb," Greek myein "to be shut," of the mouth). Form assimilated in 16c. to Latin mutus.
- mute (n.) 1570s, "stage actor in a dumb show;" 1610s as "person who does not speak," from mute (adj.). Musical sense first recorded 1811 of stringed instruments, 1841, of horns.
- mute (v.) "deaden the sound of," 1861, from mute (n.). Related: Muted; muting.
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