| 英语单词 | telltale |
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| 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 | 1 [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]
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