英语词汇silent majority的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

silent majority. President Richard M. Nixon used this term in a November 3, 1969, speech to describe the majority of Ameri- cans, those who didn’t protest against the Vietnam War. His vice president, Spiro Agnew, employed the phrase six months be- fore that. Soon the term came to mean the “average American,” all those who aren’t outspoken and are considered to constitute a majority of the electorate, usually conservative in their opin- ions. Long before, the ancient Greeks used silent majority to mean “the dead.”

词汇	silent majority
词源	silent majority. President Richard M. Nixon used this term in a November 3, 1969, speech to describe the majority of Ameri- cans, those who didn’t protest against the Vietnam War. His vice president, Spiro Agnew, employed the phrase six months be- fore that. Soon the term came to mean the “average American,” all those who aren’t outspoken and are considered to constitute a majority of the electorate, usually conservative in their opin- ions. Long before, the ancient Greeks used silent majority to mean “the dead.”
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