词汇 | wordless |
释义 | wordless adjective uk /ˈwɜːd.ləs/ us /ˈwɝːd.ləs/ without any words: 无言的;沉默的 We sat in wordless contemplation of the view.我们默默无言地坐着凝视这番景象。 Synonym unspoken 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 speechlessness stick stick in someone's throatidiom tight-lipped tongue-tied unsaid Related wordwordlessly Examples of wordlesswordless Informants were recorded three times over five months for several hours during which they carried out the productive task of retelling a wordless animation film. Her version, supported by the familiar wordless 'dah-woos' of the back-up singers, ultimately triumphs in the song. It consists of jokes, accordion playing, and wordless singing. But then music (a song) works with the camera to provide a more provocative, wordless, encounter with the scene. Imagine a prototypical scene in which a parent and toddler are ' reading ' a wordless, picture book together. The choir sustains a dense chord, wordless and devoid of lustre. The book set consisted of two wordless books which showed unrelated pictures, one on each page. In the book context of the present study, we used two wordless item-focused books and one wordless story book. A ballet-pantomime score, then, isn't music: it's just a transposition of words and story into wordless sound. The book is wordless and thus the child is free to use his own words to tell the story. Thus, the modified version of this book was wordless. In order to obtain a measure of the child's language skills, children were asked to provide one or more spontaneous narrative samples using a wordless picture book. The narrative tasks employed in this study are more complex than a conversation speech task because the child must coordinate lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic information represented in the wordless storybook. The well-read-to children also gave richer ' 'readings' ' of the wordless picture book by providing more explicit background information and clearer reference to characters and events depicted. First the child was told the story by the experimenter while looking at a wordless picture book that depicted the events and characters in the story. 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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