As no one was ever convicted of the murders, it is widely believed that there may have been a conspiracy of silence maintained by the victims’ friends and families. 兇手始终没有归案,所以人们普遍认为受害者的亲友达成了保持缄默的协议。
Everywhere he saw a conspiracy of silence and injustice.
他到处都看到沉默和不公正的阴谋。
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Joey's parents at first agreed to this. It was later that they spoke out against what they called then a conspiracy of silence.
约瑟夫的父母起初同意了。后来他们大声疾呼反对他们所谓的“沉默阴谋”。
亨利·亚当斯的教育(下)
Naturally the President talked and the guests listened; which seemed, to one who had just escaped from the European conspiracy of silence, like drawing a free breath after stifling.
自然是总统讲,客人听;对于刚刚摆脱欧洲沉默阴谋的人来说,这似乎是在窒息之后松了一口气。
亨利·亚当斯的教育(下)
The progress of science was measured by the success of the " Grammar, " when, for twenty years past, Stallo had been deliberately ignored under the usual conspiracy of silence inevitable to all thought which demands new thought-machinery.