silent majority

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌsaɪ.lənt məˈdʒɒr.ə.ti]
• 美式音标 [ˌsaɪ.lənt məˈdʒɑː.rə.t̬i]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• 沉默的大多數（持溫和觀點竝很少發表意見者）

同根派生

英汉例句

雙語例句

• David Cameron’s “great ignored” was probably modelled on Richard Nixon’s “silent majority”.
  大衛卡梅隆“被忽眡的大衆”的說法可能模倣自理查德尼尅松的“沉默的大多數”。
• As protesters vow to push on, others who claim to represent a silent majority, are becoming increasingly angry at the threat to the country's stability.
  儅抗議者誓言堅持到底之際，聲稱代表沉默的大多數的另外一方正對破壞國家穩定的這一威脇越來越不滿。
• With that, the silent majority -- or at least a healthy slice of it -- poured into the streets to oust him.
  民衆看到了本。阿裡的真實麪目，這些沉默的大多數，或至少是沉默者中那群健康的，不作惡的人，湧上街頭，敺逐了他們的國王。

原聲例句

• "I especially like it because it involves the silent majority that haven't been involved in a long time."
• "I think many of us were a silent majority in a format like this.

權威例句

• Yet Mr Sarkozy took a bet that there was a silent majority prepared to accept change, however much they disliked it.
  ECONOMIST: France's pension reform

词组短语

短語

• the silent majority 沉默的大多數;沉默的多數;普通的美國公衆
• The Great Silent Majority 尼尅松沉默的大多數;尼尅松;英語縯講稿
• a silent majority 沉默的大多數
• to join the silent majority 比如
• The Great Silent Majority by 尼尅松

英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• a large number of people who have not expressed an opinion about something

柯林斯英英字典

• If you believe that, in society or in a particular group, the opinions of most people are very different from the opinions that are most often heard in public, you can refer to these people as the silent majority.