Every year your great-great-grandpa puts on that dumb show...to mark the end of Dia de Muertos.
每年你的曾曾爷爷都要举办这个白痴演唱会,作为亡灵节的谢幕演出。
新天方夜谭(下)
" A very grateful guest, " said Villon politely; and he drank in dumb show to his entertainer.
“一位非常感谢的客人,”维庸礼貌地说。他对着他的艺人喝得哑口无言。
雾都孤儿(原版)
Mr. Sikes contented himself with tying an imaginary knot under his left ear, and jerking his head over on the right shoulder; a piece of dumb show which the Jew appeared to understand perfectly.
' The Dodger nodded in the affirmative, and, shading the flame of the candle with his hand, gave Charley Bates a private intimation, in dumb show, that he had better not be funny just then.
’机灵鬼点点头表示肯定,然后用手遮住蜡烛的火焰,用哑剧的形式私下里暗示查理·贝茨最好别开玩笑。
简·爱(原版)
They knelt; while Mrs. Dent and Louisa Eshton, dressed also in white, took up their stations behind them. A ceremony followed, in dumb show, in which it was easy to recognise the pantomime of a marriage.
Mrs. Cadwallader's eyes, diverted from the churchyard, saw a good deal of dumb show which was not so intelligible to her as she could have desired, and could not repress the question, " Who is Mr. Ladislaw" ?
The three-character play, directed by Terry Johnson, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre' London, September 4, 2004. It received its American premiere at South Coast Repertory in September, 2006. It was performed at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake from June–November 2011.
近义、反义、联想词
近义词
n.
acting, playing, playacting, performing
英英词典
dumb show n.
a performance using gestures and body movements without words