silent majority

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David Cameron’s “great ignored” was probably modelled on Richard Nixon’s “silent majority”.
大衛(wèi)卡梅隆“被忽視的大眾”的說法可能模仿自理查德尼克松的“沉默的大多數”。
As protesters vow to push on, others who claim to represent a silent majority, are becoming increasingly angry at the threat to the country's stability.
當抗議者誓言堅持到底之際，聲稱代表沉默的大多數的另外一方正對破壞國家穩(wěn)定的這一威脅越來越不滿。
With that, the silent majority -- or at least a healthy slice of it -- poured into the streets to oust him.
民眾看到了本。阿里的真實面目，這些沉默的大多數，或至少是沉默者中那群健康的，不作惡的人，涌上街頭，驅逐了他們的國王。

"I especially like it because it involves the silent majority that haven't been involved in a long time."
"I think many of us were a silent majority in a format like this.

Yet Mr Sarkozy took a bet that there was a silent majority prepared to accept change, however much they disliked it.
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If you believe that, in society or in a particular group, the opinions of most people are very different from the opinions that are most often heard in public, you can refer to these people as the silent majority.