| 词汇 | ventriloquist |
| 释义 | ventriloquist noun[ C ] uk /venˈtrɪl.ə.kwɪst/ us /venˈtrɪl.ə.kwɪst/ someone who entertains people by speaking without moving their lips, to make it seem as if the voice is coming from somewhere else : 腹语师;腹语表演者 When a ventriloquist chats with a dummy, it really looks like two people are talking to each other.腹语师和他的木偶聊天的时候看起来真的像是两个人在互相交谈。 She smiled and did a good impression of a ventriloquist 's dummy.她笑了笑，把腹语木偶的表情模仿得唯妙唯肖。 See ventriloquism She is one of the UK's leading comedy ventriloquists. Even with a good ventriloquist, there might be a few moments when the audience sees his lips move. The difference between reality and the brain's perception of reality is what keeps ventriloquists in business. Entertainers in general aerialist artiste balancing act bullfighter clown comedian contortionist double threat drum majorette emcee juggler majorette performer showman stripper tightrope walker torero triple threat troubadour warm (someone/something) up Examples of ventriloquistventriloquist She takes her place invisibly as a ventriloquist whose puppets, the dull, everyday performers, sit immersed in a soundworld to which they obviously cannot relate. A ventriloquist, for example, cannot enter into a genuine dialogue with a dummy since the dummy cannot really respond back to the ventriloquist. The children in the swimming pool had become my ventriloquist dummies. The notion of illusion is used by him to explain how the ventriloquist treats his own stomach as a foreign voice. The subject's persona is rendered, by the act of appropriation, into a ventriloquist's dummy, communicating artists' messages as opposed to the subject's utterance. You see the lips of a ventriloquist's dummy moving and hear the voice of the ventriloquist. He is nothing but the puppet of ventriloquists. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was what led me to say that they were puppets—although ventriloquists' dummies might have been a more accurate description. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There seems to be some ventriloquist about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He continued to perform late in life, giving televised music hall performances in 1952, billed as the oldest ventriloquist in the world. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Her final wish was to turn her body into a ventriloquist's puppet and to be buried with her 101 puppets. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The ventriloquist would then interpret the sounds, as they were thought to be able to speak to the dead, as well as foretell the future. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The ventriloquist figures usually had a string coming from the back of the neck that would cause their mouths to open and close. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. After being badly burned in a household accident, she was given a ventriloquist's dummy by her artist father as part of her recovery. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Together they performed a unique ventriloquist show on television. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of ventriloquist 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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