Definition of shtum in English:
shtum
(also schtum)
adjectiveʃtʊm
informal Silent; non-communicative.
沉默不语的，默不作声的
he kept shtum about the fact that he was sent down for fraud
他对于因欺诈而被开除的事实保持沉默。
Example sentencesExamples
- I know a little about birds but am hardly an expert, so I - like everyone else - kept schtum.
- I know you complain about me posting way too much for you to read, so, other than significant breaking news, I will keep shtum until at least Friday afternoon.
- Keeping schtum as to your real identity would protect you from becoming one of the 360,000 people per year who allegedly receive subpoenas as a result of their blogging.
- People usually keep schtum about this kind of thing.
- Some very talented so and so must have worked on this season's hit collections, but the Italian fashion giant is keeping shtum about their identity.
- The fact that it was the managers, Martin O'Neill and Craig Levein, who publicly stoked the fires while players, on the whole, were smart enough to keep schtum was all the more remarkable.
- It is interesting they are keeping schtum, it makes it seem very mysterious.
- I said I would stay schtum until the end of the series.
- I kept shtum that I had just completed a Politics degree under an America-obsessed Prof.
- Steve then proceeded to rant and rave at the musty defendant who, taking his lawyer's advice, kept well shtum.
- However, Josie's forked tongue flickers into persuasive mode and eventually convinces Tasha to keep schtum.
- I think Kim has been keeping schtum to see how the US election went.
- My head's still spinning and I don't want to make myself look daft so I'm keeping schtum.
- He kept shtum and didn't embarrass her once for the following 11 years and, instead, contented himself with being an almost mute second fiddle to a woman of whom he was inordinately proud.
- The company is staying schtum on details on the deal, saying it is an internal matter.
- There is a chance of course that he'll do the decent thing and keep shtum until the Memoirs are published.
- The Icelandic fans are a polite lot, keeping shtum during the quiet bits, a few going dutifully mental when the music becomes as abrasive as the grinding of tectonic plates.
- Crazy new guidelines mean his staying schtum was the only way to preserve his vote at the planning committee.
- These kind of dodgy deals and payments happen at every club, and practically every transfer, but most people privy to the information know that it is in their best interests to keep schtum.
- I trusted him to keep schtum about it afterwards.
verbshtums, shtummed, shtummingʃtʊm
[no object]informal Be or become quiet and non-communicative.
沉默不语
you start to say something and then just when it's getting interesting you shtum up
你开始说了，可正当你说到精彩之处时，却沉默不语了。
Example sentencesExamples
- The possible risk being that she schtums and won't tell me the truth or just laughs in my face when I bring it up because it's apparently trivial.
- It's when it gets to the literature type of questions which totally schtums me, I mean I haven't got a clue.
- This source was schtummed when Julia posted a scathing rebuke on the thread, really very angry.
Origin
1950s: Yiddish, from German stumm.