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外刊例句
- Many took it to be a tacit admission that its cost-cutting had done the business harm.
许多人认为这等于该公司默认削减成本对其自身造成了伤害。
——《经济学人》 - On conventional runways and in print, a show of fat can still raise eyebrows, the show’s organizers argue, as a tacit breach of etiquette and, less commonly, as a transgressive gesture.
这场展览的组织者们说,在传统秀台和出版物上,展示肥胖仍会令人惊讶,被默认为是对礼仪的违背,甚至是某些情况下的侵犯行为。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[adjective] understood or implied without being stated
[形容词] 无需说明即可理解或暗示的
深入解读
Tacit 一词源自拉丁语 tacere (沉默、不说话),其本义即表示“缄默的、不说话的”,比如:
- 默祷
a tacit prayer
类似于默祷只需要摆出祈祷的姿势,不需要说话就知道是在祷告一样, tacit 现在主要用来表示“默示的、不言而喻的、心照不宣的”,比如:
- 默契
tacit understanding - 默许
tacit approval - 暗中支持
tacit support - 了然于心的认识
tacit knowledge
用在法律领域, tacit 则是指“(由当事人行为)默示的”或“由于法律的执行而产生的”,比如:
- 默示抵押(也称法定抵押,指在某些情况下,直接依据法律规定而无须当事人的约定,在债务人财产上设定的抵押)
a tacit mortgage/hypothecation
名著用例
In the tacit agreement of husband and wife to keep their estrangement a secret they behaved as would have been ordinary.
在这一对夫妻之间有一种默契,要对他们破裂的关系保持沉默,尽量表现得像普通的夫妇一样。
出自英国小说家托马斯·哈代的长篇小说《德伯家的苔丝》(Tess of the d'Urbervilles)。小说最初在杂志上连载,1891年开始以书籍发行,主要讲述英格兰有个贫家少女名叫苔丝,她美丽、单纯且富有责任感,却遭到命运的捉弄。
同近义词
- implicit: implied though not plainly expressed
- implied: suggested but not directly expressed; implicit
- unspoken: not expressed in speech; tacit