silent majority

silent majority

美 　英

• 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

英汉解释

n.	1. a significant proportion of a population who choose not to express their views, often because of apathy or because they do not believe their views matter

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。

The silent majority can't be involved unless they become the victim of the natural and man-made calamities.

一般被遗忘的沉默大众根本无缘，除非他们成为天灾人祸的受害者。

David Cameron's "great ignored" was probably modelled on Richard Nixon's "silent majority" .

大卫卡梅隆“被忽视的大众”的说法可能模仿自理查德尼克松的“沉默的大多数”。

To comply with the law, the venture has Thais as silent majority partners.

按照法律，该合资企业已作为泰国大多数合作伙伴之一。

The importance of his ideas is that they represent the unspoken opinion of the silent majority .

他的见解之所以重要，是因为他的见解代表着普通美国大众没有说出来的意见。

That bout of anarchy went down poorly with Bangkokians, including the so-called silent majority.

这场混乱得到很少曼谷人的赞同，包括所谓的沉默的大多人在内。

I must raise my voice on behalf of the silent majority.

我必须为沉默的大多数大胆疾呼。

Therefore, I would say that I am the silent majority in one.

因此，我愿意说我是沉默的大多数中的一员。

This isn't a worry for the government, Mr. Yurgens said, 'because they have consolidated the silent majority' of Russia.

尤尔根斯说，这对政府来说不值得担忧，因为他们已经统一了俄罗斯沉默的大多数。

Reasons of the existence of the silent majority

为什么会有沉默的大多数

others who claim to represent a silent majority

另一些人宣称代表沉默的大多数