| 词汇 | faceless |
| 释义 | faceless adjective disapprovinguk /ˈfeɪs.ləs/ us /ˈfeɪs.ləs/ having no clear characteristics and therefore not interesting: 无个性的;缺乏特征的;无聊的 faceless bureaucrats千人一面的政府官僚 Tedious and uninspiring (as) dull as ditchwateridiom anonymous banal banally basic marmoreal meh menial menially middle-aged staidly stale staleness stodgily stodgy watch paint dryidiom watch the clockidiom wearisome wearisomely weary faceless | American Dictionaryfaceless adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˈfeɪs·ləs/ lacking any particular character; difficult to describe or deal with: faceless bureaucracy Examples of facelessfaceless Welcome to the carnival of forgetting where no one need fear losing face because we're all wilfully lost and faceless anyway. If we are to help faceless others by donating our organs, we must trust physicians. No blood is seen; no screaming is heard; casualties are faceless. For the most part, the language was clear and functional - but at the same time it was faceless and boring. The reason for faceless anonymity, then, was not to exploit the performer, but rather to exploit the market. However, this limited study shows that online communities do connect people, and that online activities are not just faceless and meaningless entertainment. In the face of an inefficient and faceless state unable to meet the basic needs of its people, familism was one obvious and logical response. Organizations are often considered monolithic and faceless entities, but they are far from that. They had never made it into history books, except as the faceless "masses" summoned to produce revolutions or die of famine at appropriate points in the narrative. The 'faceless judges ' refers to the practice of trying the accused before a panel of judges with their faces concealed by balaclavas, ostensibly to protect their identity. These artists often consciously place their own identities in question through the creation of new mythologies, typically achieved by masking themselves in costume, alter egos, aliases and faceless technologies. Along the same lines, these novels also suggest that a faceless police power circulates through the population everywhere at once and then ground that power provisionally within the servant class. The area where fertile fields produced raspberries is now a mixture of abandoned factories, toxic waste, rubbish, roads, signs, faceless 1950s housing blocks and a seedy strip joint. But let us beware of creating a condition when the local authority councillor ceases to represent the people and becomes just another faceless civil servant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many such men, worthy and skilled as they are, are faceless bureaucrats, grey men with no charisma whatever. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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