silent majority

silent majority什么意思,silent majority翻译

基本解释

n.: 沉默的大多数（不公开表达自己意见的广大民众）
网络: 沉默大多数；沉默的大众；沉默大众

权威解释

• 沉默的大多数（不公开表达自己意见的广大民众）:

  the large number of people in a country who think the same as each other, but do not express their views publicly

例句

• Meanwhile, the opposition, which dismissed Mr Assad"s speech out of hand, is trying to draw the silent majority into its movement.

  与此同时，对阿萨德演讲立马显示冷漠的态度反对派努力拉拢大部分沉默派加入他们的运动中。

• Yet Mr Sarkozy took a bet that there was a silent majority prepared to accept change, however much they disliked it.

  不过，这次萨科奇打了回赌，赌那些“沉默的大多数”虽然不喜欢这次改革，但已做好了接受的准备。

• The silent majority included most of the intelligentsia, who, since the early 1990s, had increasingly checked out of political life.

  沉默的大多数人中包含大部分的知识份子，这些人，从90年代早期开始，已经逐渐被刷选出了政治生活。

• The fact that the silent majority was there showed that the motion was unable to motivate enough people.

  拥有沉默的大多数这是事实，证明了不信任动议对人们来说并不够有动力。

• Nixon made a virtue of his squareness by siding with America"s "silent majority" against the elites .

  尼克松小心翼翼遵循美国对精英“沉默的大多数”原则的同时还能做到刚正不阿。

• The "silent majority" had been disoriented, throughout the 1960s, by the collapse of traditional moral values.

  横跨20世纪60年代，随着传统道德价值观的瓦解，“沉默的大多数”感到迷惘，失去方向。

• So tonight, to you, the outstanding silent majority of my fellow Americans, I ask for your support.

  所以，今日对着你们——我的“沉默的大多数”的北美同胞们，我肯请你们的支持。

• Nixon"s Southern strategy, his challenge to court-ordered busing and appeal to the silent majority, paid immediate electoral dividends.

  尼克松的南方战略，他对公交车事件的态度和对沉默的大多数的吸引力马上为他赢得了选举资本。

• "I especially like it because it involves the silent majority that haven"t been involved [in politics] in a long time, " she said.

  她说：“我特别喜欢它，因为它让很久没有参与政治的沉默的多数人参与进来。”

• The silent majority of Damascus and Aleppo is showing signs of a change of mindset.

  大马士革和阿勒颇沉默的大多数正在流露出改变想法的迹象。