听一分钟英文：Silence-安静

Silence is golden. I like this. It’s very true. It’s not often in our lives that we can enjoy moments of silence. Our world is very noisy. We rarely get the chance to have some peace and quiet. I think we all need some quiet time. We need to think about life. A great place to go for some silence is the top of a mountain or the middle of the desert. You can’t hear anything, except sometimes the wind or a bird. It’s really interesting when you are somewhere that is really silent. It makes you think about how much noise there is around us. There is a strange expression that says silence is deafening¹. This means it is so silent it really makes you think about the silence. It grabs² your attention.

1 deafening   

adj. 振耳欲聋的, 极喧闹的 动词deafen的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The noise of the siren was deafening her. 汽笛声震得她耳朵都快聋了。
• The noise of the machine was deafening. 机器的轰鸣声震耳欲聋。

2 grabs   

n.试图抓取，有意抢夺( grab的名词复数 )v.抢先，抢占( grab的第三人称单数 )；（尤指匆忙地）取；攫取；（尤指自私、贪婪地）捞取

参考例句：

• The job is up for grabs.Why don't you apply now? 那工作谁都可以争取，你怎么不现在就申请呢？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She grabs a stack of baby photos and thrusts them into my hands. 她抓起一沓婴儿照片塞到我手里。 来自辞典例句