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Telltale Eyes I Betray 英 Telteɪl] 美 Telteɪl Adj.泄露内情的;搬弄是非的;无法掩饰的;报警的

英语单词 telltale
英美音标 英 ['telteɪl] 美 ['telteɪl]
中文释义 adj.泄露内情的;搬弄是非的;无法掩饰的;报警的
n.告密者;迹象;指示器;[体]发球限制线
英语例句 (1) I could see from the telltale look in her eyes that she loved him.
(2) The teacher did not notice that I was cheating until that rotten telltale told her.
(3) There are a number of telltale signs that an application is leaking memory.
中文例句 (1) 我从她那无法掩饰的眼神里可以看出她爱他。
(2) 在那个该死的告密者告诉老师之前,老师并没有注意到我作弊。
(3) 很多迹象能够表明应用程序正在发生内存泄漏。
vocabulary简明 Something that's telltale accidentally relays important information. A wise parent can tell who ate the last of the birthday cake by the telltale chocolate smudges on the culprit's face.
vocabulary扩展 The telltale dark circles under your teacher's eyes betray how little sleep he got last night, and a telltale bulge in a shopper's pocket is sometimes enough for a store owner to suspect she's a shoplifter. If it's telltale, its very presences reveals something. A famous occurrence of telltale, although it's spelled with a hyphen, is Edgar Allen Poe's story "The Tell-Tale Heart," about a murderer who imagines he's betrayed by the telltale beating of his victim's heart.
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ 形容词]泄露内情的;露馅的 Something that is described as telltale gives away information, often about something bad that would otherwise not be noticed.
  [ADJ n]
  • Only occasionally did the telltale redness around his eyes betray the fatigue he was suffering.

    只有从他发红的眼圈上偶尔能看出他非常疲惫。

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