| 单词 | wall of silence/secrecy |
| 释义 | wall of silence/secrecywall of silence/secrecy SAYa situation in which nobody will tell you what you want to know 默不作声/秘而不宣〔指想知道某事却无人回应〕 The police investigation was met with a wall of silence. 警方的调查工作受阻，谁都闭口不言。 Examples from the Corpus wall of silence/secrecy• A wall of silence has now descended over the key players.• Blount met with a convenient wall of silence.• Only Jim Crane, ambitious but a little more human than the other hacks, can break Alice's wall of silence.• Very soon a cold stone wall of silence had tormented them to wounded exasperation.• But the wall of silence that protected behind the scenes negotiations produced no answers.• Other cracks in the wall of secrecy have appeared in recent years, as we shall see in Chapter 5. → wall of silence/secrecy at wall1(2) |
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