pantomime

英 ['pæntəmaɪm] 美 ['pæntəmaɪm]

• n. 哑剧；童话剧；哑剧演员；手势
• v. 打手势；演哑剧

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 哑剧
2. 童话剧
3. 手势
4. 哑剧演员
5. 示意的动作
6. 表意动作
7. 默剧
8. 滑稽可笑的局面
9. 姿势
10. 舞剧
11. 面部和身体的表意动作
12. 哑剧技艺

v. 动词

1. 用手势传达
2. 用手势示意
3. 演哑剧
4. 打手势

adj. 形容词

1. 哑剧的
2. 象哑剧的

英英释义

Noun:

1. a performance using gestures and body movements without words

Verb:

1. act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only;

   "The acting students mimed eating an apple"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The actor is skilled in pantomime.
   这个演员擅长表演哑剧。
2. The audience roared with laughter at the pantomime.
   观众被这哑剧逗得哈哈大笑。
3. The children were very excited by the pantomime.
   孩子们看了童话剧非常兴奋。
4. Some tourists make themselves understood abroad by pantomime.
   一些游客在国外通常用手势来让别人明白自己的意思。

用作动词 (v.)

1. Apes are routinely beaten into submission and forced to pantomime human behaviors that are foreign and confusing.
   猿类被屈打得顺从，被迫模仿对于它们来说是莫名其妙，难以理解的人类行为举止。

经典引文

• The annual pantomime..opens on boxing day.

  出自：Times Literary Supplement

• Last Christmas he was back on stage in pantomime in Manchester.

  出自：Guardian

词汇搭配

• pantomime dame 哑妇

近反义词

【近义词】

• movement 活动
• farce 闹剧
• joke 笑话
• rigmarole 冗长无聊的废话...
• drama 戏剧
• mime 哑剧
• dumb show 默剧