hushing

1. CONVENTION （用于要求或命令别人安静）嘘
   You say 'Hush!' to someone when you are asking or telling them to be quiet.
   1. Hush, my love, it's all right.
      嘘，宝贝，没事了。
2. V-ERG （使）安静下来;（使）停止说话
   If you hush someone or if they hush, they stop speaking or making a noise.
   1. She tried to hush her noisy father...
      她试图让吵吵嚷嚷的父亲安静下来。
   2. I had to box Max's ears to get him to hush.
      我不得不打了马克斯一耳光让他闭嘴。
3. N-SING 寂静;宁静;（突然出现的）安静
   You say there is a hush in a place when everything is quiet and peaceful, or suddenly becomes quiet.
   1. A hush fell over the crowd and I knew something terrible had happened.
      人群突然一片肃静，我知道一定发生了什么可怕的事。

1. No one would have skipped any sleep over it, but the military made a big to-do of hushing it up, and for a lot of folks, that sealed it: the aliens had landed!
   没有人跳过此事去睡觉，但是军方制造了一场大的骚乱把此事掩盖起来。对于一些农民来说，此事确实被封杀了：外星人降临啦！
2. Of speech sounds; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound ( as` s 'and` sh').
   指语言的声音；以嘶嘶声或者咝音为特点（例如s和sh）。
3. He put his finger to his lips, as if hushing a fractious child.
   他把指头放在嘴唇上，好像在要个烦躁的孩子肃静。
4. The monopolies'habit of hushing up safety problems erodes public trust in nuclear power, which for all its troubles must surely be part of the future energy mix.
   垄断集团掩盖安全问题的坑爹习惯正一步步侵蚀着民众对于核能源的信任，而不管遇到什么样的问题，核能都会成为未来能源组合的一部分。
5. Strengthening moral education, hushing up deeper contradictions and fostering modern civic moral quality means much to harmonious society construction.
   加强道德教育，化解深层次矛盾，构建具有现代意义的公民道德素质，对于促进和谐社会的实现具有重大的意义。
6. Say simply, its essence is to give the criminal suspect and the defendant to the right hushing or declining an answer to cross-examining of judiciary personnel.
   简单的说，其实质就是赋予犯罪嫌疑人、被告人对司法人员的讯问保持沉默或拒绝回答的权利。

noun

1. a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
   1. the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience

   Synonym:    hisshissingfizzlesibilation