| 词汇 | thousand-yard-stare |
| 释义 | thousand-yard stare noun[ C ] (alsothousand yard stare)uk /ˌθaʊ.zənd.jɑːd ˈsteər/ us /ˈθaʊ.zənd.jɑːrd ˈster/ an act of someone looking into the distance and appearing not to be noticing or emotionally involved with what is going on around them, typical of someone who has suffered severe emotional shock : He had survived, but his eyes had acquired the thousand-yard stare of men who had been fighting at the front for too long. When she felt like this, she would clutch her head or sit with a thousand-yard stare, looking at nothing in particular for hours on end. The returning soldiers had the thousand yard stare of people who have seen terrible things. With his thousand-yard stare that never wavers for one moment, there is a frightening intensity about him. In the movie he plays a First World War veteran whose amnesia and thousand-yard stare attract the attention of lovely Greer Garson. The rescuers wore the thousand-yard stare of combat fatigue as they worked feverishly to help the injured and remove the dead. Not showing or feeling emotions anodyne anti-sentimental belie bite bite your lipidiom frozenly glaze hard-bitten hardened icily phlegmatically poker face reserved reservedly sphinx-like unmoved unprocessed unresponsive unresponsively unresponsiveness You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Using the eyes |
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