词组是in silence，中文意思是adv，沉默地
Let your smiling lips say on oath how my voice lost itself in silence like a drunken bee in the lotus.让你含笑的唇儿发个誓，告诉我我的声音怎样在沉默中消失，像一只在荷花中沉醉的蜜蜂。
We sat at the dinner table in silence， preferring that to speaking in a difficult language.
