Tacit

(a.) Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.

录入:奥利维尔

• To his tacit engagement with Miss de Bourgh? 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• So he wobbled upon a tacit assumption of social standing. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• No one referred to it, and this tacit avoidance of the subject kept it in the immediate foreground of consciousness. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• A secret feud of some years' standing was thus healed, and with a tacit reconciliation. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Edith was in the mood to think that any pleasure enjoyed away from her was a tacit affront, or at best a proof of indifference. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She did as he suggested; and the act was a tacit acknowledgment that she accepted his offer. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• That this mixture arises from a tacit comparison of the person contemned or respected with ourselves is no less evident. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• She knows that I know, said the ever-restless voice within; but that increase of tacit knowledge only thrust further off any confidence between them. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She thought he seemed to acknowledge some kinship between her and him, a natural, tacit understanding, a using of the same language. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

整理:辛克莱