| 词汇 | sphinx-like |
| 释义 | sphinx-like adjective uk /ˈsfɪŋks.laɪk/ us /ˈsfɪŋks.laɪk/ mysterious and not allowing people to know what you are thinking: 谜一般的，神秘莫测的 He sat silently with a sphinx-like smile on his face.他默不作声地坐着，脸上带着神秘莫测的笑容。 Not showing or feeling emotions anodyne anti-sentimental belie bite bite your lipidiom frozenly glaze hard-bitten hardened icily phlegmatically poker face reserved reservedly stiff upper lip unmoved unprocessed unresponsive unresponsively unresponsiveness Examples of sphinx-likesphinx-like The buildings, solid, massive and often sphinx-like, with an unmistakable sense of compression, also took themselves pretty seriously. From Los Angeles Times The mender of nets became a far-off sphinx-like figure. From Project Gutenberg His face was imperturbable, even sphinx-like in its steadiness. From Project Gutenberg The grim switchboard flashed its metallic face in cryptic, sphinx-like immobility. From Project Gutenberg After a moment of sphinx-like communing, she dropped her cigarette and rose. From Project Gutenberg In an agony he tried to call, but no sound escaped the lips, set in a sphinx-like silence. From Project Gutenberg This is, then, the first form of art-symbolic art with its endless quest, its inner struggle, its sphinx-like mystery, and its sublimity. From Project Gutenberg Bug buttoned up his lips for a sphinx-like secrecy. From Project Gutenberg But she lured with her eyes--great sphinx-like eyes of hazel-brown--that looked men through and through. From Project Gutenberg One of the least patient of the cowboys at length deliberately exposed himself to fire from the sphinx-like cabin. From Project Gutenberg There is every phase of soul-struggle and method from unblushing, business-like bargain and sale to sphinx-like and purposely unenlightened and ostrich-like submission. From Project Gutenberg His stolid, sphinx-like face showed neither fear nor interest. From Project Gutenberg She was looking straight ahead, her eyes fastened on the two shining buttons of the livery, with that sphinx-like smile which women sometimes have. From Project Gutenberg The younger man watched the still, inscrutable, sphinx-like figure with eyes of grave speculation. From Project Gutenberg A frank and open rupture was not in the style or the ideas of her royal and sphinx-like lover. From Project Gutenberg 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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