网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 stilted
释义 stilted
adjective
 disapprovinguk /ˈstɪl.tɪd/ us /ˈstɪl.tɪd/
(of a person's behaviour or way of speaking or writing) too formal and not smooth or natural: (言谈举止或写作风格)生硬的,不自然的
He writes in a formal and somewhat stilted style.他的写作风格刻板,相当生硬。
The dialogue sounded stilted and unnatural, perhaps because of the translation from the original Russian.对话听起来很生硬,非常不自然,可能是因为从俄文原著翻译过来的缘故。
Synonyms
artificial
contriveddisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Ways of talking
atonally
beg the questionidiom
blah
blither
come out
coo
pipe up
prate
spit something out
spluttery
stammer
stiltedly
sweet nothings
talk nonsenseidiom
talk through your hatidiom
tattle
turn of phrase
undertone
wax
witter

Related word


stiltedly

stilted | American Dictionary


stilted
adjective
us/ˈstɪl·tɪd/
(of behavior, speech, or writing) too formal and not smooth or natural:
Legal language tends to be very stilted.

Examples of stilted


stilted
The language is stilted, typical 'translatorese', so much so that some sentences are virtually incomprehensible.
The text, in traditional number-opera format, is indeed stilted and dreary.
As a kind of diary, in parts it is written in the stilted, abbreviated manner of that genre.
Too much emphasis on any one element would lead to the production of narratives which were stilted and not naturalistic.
The rhetoric of his speeches is also somewhat stilted and archaic, probably by design.
The lines, spoken staccato by the actors, are choppy, stilted fragments rather than smooth streams of input.
Besides, the mensural interpretation was artificial and yielded stilted transcriptions.
In his serenade, for example, the rhymes are obvious and stilted; more grotesque still are the violations of metre and the misplaced accents.
Because of the small sample of stilted trees, only unbuttressed and buttressed trees are considered hereafter.
The former is fine, if a little stilted, while the latter is quite awkward with either passive auxiliary.
Echoing, and technological attempts at dealing with it, render much of the speech stilted and prone to breakdown.
Although somewhat stilted due to its verb-initial order, this sentence is grammatical, embedded in a larger narrative context.
Because the language of the popular press is lively and colloquial, in contrast to the stilted formulaic language of official publications, people believe what it says is true.
In fact, to describe the central performances in these terms could be misleading: to our eyes, the acting looks mannered, with a rather stilted, melodramatic quality about it.
Photius' style is impersonal, not to say stilted, and he would hardly have needed to tell his brother who their father was.
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.
随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2024/12/23 8:47:04