mutely

adv.

1. 无言地；一语不发地
   without speaking

1. ADJ 缄默的;哑口无言的
   Someone who is mute is silent for a particular reason and does not speak.
   1. He was mute, distant, and indifferent...
      他一句话也不说，显得疏远而冷漠。
   2. I threw a mute look of appeal at Paula.
      我默默地向葆拉投去恳求的目光。
   3. Mute is also an adverb.
      
   4. He could watch her standing mute by the phone...
      他能看到她一声不响地站在电话旁。
   5. He sat mute, speechless with ecstasy, gazing into the sky.
      他静静坐着，凝视天空，一言不发，心驰神往。
2. ADJ 哑的;不能说话的
   Someone who is mute is unable to speak.
   1. Marianna, the duke's daughter, became mute after a shock.
      公爵的女儿玛丽安娜在遭受了一次电击后失声了。
3. VERB 抑制(情感);减弱，缓和(活动强度)
   If someone mutes something such as their feelings or their activities, they reduce the strength or intensity of them.
   1. The corruption does not seem to have muted the country's prolonged economic boom.
      腐败似乎没有影响国家经济的持续繁荣。
4. VERB 降低，减弱(音量)
   If you mute a noise or sound, you lower its volume or make it less distinct.
   1. They begin to mute their voices, not be as assertive...
      他们开始压低嗓门，不再那么肯定了。
   2. At first the wooded hillsides muted the sounds.
      最初长满树木的山坡吸收了噪音。
5. （乐器上的）弱音器
   A mute is a device which can be used to make a musical instrument produce a quieter, softer sound.

1. Three glum faces mutely gave him his answer.
   三张忧郁的脸无声地回答了他。
2. Without the sequence, connection attempts just mutely fail.
   如果没有这个序列，连接尝试就会静悄悄地失败。
3. All arms were extended to him, as if suddenly blown in his direction; they were beseeching him mutely not to desert them.
   所有的手臂都伸向他，像是突然被一阵风刮了过去；他们向他发出了大声的请求，求他不要抛下他们。
4. Two doctors one was pale and trembling were mutely engaged in doing something with the other red, gory leg.
   两个医生其中一个面色苍白，哆哆嗦嗦的，默默地在那个人的另一只发红的腿上做着什么。
5. She looked round. For a few seconds they gazed mutely in each other's eyes, and the remote and impossible became all at once close at hand, possible and inevitable.
   她回过头来，看着他，他们默默地相视了几秒钟，于是那遥远的原本不可能的事情，突然一下子变成了眼前的，即将成为现实的甚至是无法避免的事情了。
6. I agree by nodding mutely and give her the letter.
   我默默点头，把信交给她。
7. Seemingly endless herds continued to arrive, like phantoms, mutely making their way from the brush to the water.
   更多的象群像幽灵般到来，似乎看不到尽头，它们静静地从岸上的灌木丛走入水中。
8. "Er-composing poems," he answered, tilting his head on one side and looking up at the sky, as if, oblivious of everything else, he was absorbed in reciting his poems mutely to himself.
   范博文回答。于是他又忘记了一切似的侧着头，翻起眼睛看天，摆出苦吟的样子来。
9. Each and every man bears an everlasting shadow, internal or external, light or heavy, which mutely stares face to face with him.
   每一个男子都会负担一个影子。寂寞地对望着。由里及外，由轻到重，从一而终。
10. The sweated legend in the crown of his hat told him mutely: Plasto's high grade ha.
    他的帽里儿上那汗碱斑斑的商标默默地告诉他，这是顶普拉斯托的高级帽子。
11. For a time they seemed to be suffering mutely as the beasts suffer;
    有一段时间，他们俨然像牲畜一样默默经受着痛苦；

adv

1. without speaking
   1. he sat mutely next to her

   Synonym:    wordlesslysilentlytaciturnly