But then he discovered that, by holding his tongue in a certain way, he could get the trumpet to emit a small gasping sound.

可接着他就发现，只要把舌头放到一定的位置，他就能让这小号发出一种很小的喘息般的声音。

By her next speech, Jo deprived herself of several years of pleasure, and received a timely lesson in the art of holding her tongue.

在她的下一次演讲中，乔剥夺了自己几年的快乐，并适时地接受了闭嘴艺术的教训。

Miss Howard has previously made up a cock and bull story about him and Mrs. Raikes to account for his holding his tongue afterwards.

霍华德小姐之前编造了一个关于他和雷克斯夫人的公鸡和公牛的故事，以解释他后来闭口不谈的原因。

In that, or any other case, a nineteenth-century education was as useless or misleading as an eighteenth-century education had been to the child of 1838; but Adams had a better reason for holding his tongue.

在那种情况下，或任何其他情况下，19 世纪的教育与 18 世纪的教育对 1838 年的孩子一样无用或误导；但亚当斯有更好的理由保持沉默。