| 词汇 | speechlessness |
| 释义 | speechlessness noun[ U ] uk /ˈspiːtʃ.ləs.nəs/ us /ˈspiːtʃ.ləs.nəs/ the feeling of being unable to speak because you are so angry, shocked, surprised, etc.: （因气愤、震惊、惊讶等）说不出话，无语，哑口无言 She was stunned to speechlessness by his marriage proposal.他的求婚令她目瞪口呆。 I was shocked to the point of speechlessness.我被震惊得说不出话来。 See speechless She was reduced to speechlessness by what he told her. He once reduced a senior official to speechlessness by asking him why America needed a Federal Reserve at all. Even Andrew was startled into speechlessness by her outburst. Falling silent and not speaking be (on) non-speakersidiom bite bite something back bite your tongueidiom button your lipidiom clam clam up draw mouth quiet radio silence silence is goldenidiom speak speechlessly stick stick in someone's throatidiom strike someone dumb tight-lipped tongue-tied wordless Examples of speechlessnessspeechlessness Each student exhibited their personal degree of fear, nervousness, and skepticism, and some were petrified to the point of speechlessness. For silent film, muteness, then, is a formative force, and in this sense it approaches the conditions of opera, a vocal medium constandy impelled towards moments of speechlessness. It almost reduces me to speechlessness with indignation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In manga, the ellipsis by itself represents speechlessness, or a pregnant pause. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His incapability of providing for his family, coupled with his speechlessness, reduces his thought process greatly. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. And they are exemplary because, in face of such inevitable speechlessness, they remind us of the need to speak out in protest, the protests of the dead and the living. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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