It has been said that if speech is silver, silence is golden. Certainly silence is preferable, under most circumstances, to inconsequential chitchat.

It has been said that if speech is silver, silence is golden. Certainly silence is preferable, under most circumstances, to inconsequential chitchat.

人们说语言是银，沉默是金。当然在大多数情况下，同无聊的闲谈相比沉默更可取。