| 英语单词 | grimace |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [ɡrɪ'meɪs] 美 [ɡrɪ'meɪs] |
| 中文释义 | n.面部的歪扭;鬼脸;痛苦的表情 vi.扮鬼脸;作苦相 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Thomas made a grimace after he had tasted the wine. (2) I fought back the grimace that would give her lie away. (3) An odd grimace crosses her mouth and vanishes. (4) He acknowledged his mistake with a wry grimace. (5) The latter made a grimace at the two women and gleefully hurried out behind Tu Wei-yueh. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 汤玛斯尝了那葡萄酒後做了个鬼脸。 (2) 我对抗似的朝她做了个鬼脸,揭穿她的谎言。 (3) 她的嘴角掠过一丝奇怪的表情,转眼就消失了。 (4) 他做了个怪怪的表情,算是认了错。 (5) 李麻子朝阿珍她们扮鬼脸,笑了一笑,也就赶快跟了出去。 |
| vocabulary简明 | The grimace on her face when he asked her to the prom told him her answer was "no" before she said a word. A grimace is a facial expression that usually suggests disgust or pain, but sometimes comic exaggeration. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Picture someone wrinkling his nose, squeezing his eyes shut, and twisting his mouth and you'll have a pretty solid mental image of a grimace. It can be a verb, as in "the class grimaced at the teacher's suggestion of a pop quiz." Or it words as a noun. "The class gave a grimace when the teacher suggested a pop quiz." Its forerunner was the 17th century Spanish grimazo, meaning caricature, and grima, meaning fright. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词](因厌恶、痛苦等)做鬼脸,扮怪相,脸部扭曲 If you grimace, you twist your face in an ugly way because you are annoyed, disgusted, or in pain. [V] [V [WRITTEN 笔语]
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