| 词汇 | deadpan |
| 释义 | deadpan adjective uk /ˈded.pæn/ us /ˈded.pæn/ looking or seeming serious when you are telling a joke: 故作严肃的;假装正经的;不动声色的 a deadpan expression/voice故作严肃的表情／嗓音 Synonyms expressionless impassive poker-faced Not showing or feeling emotions anodyne anti-sentimental belie bite bite your lipidiom glaze hard-bitten hardened icily impassive poker face reserved reservedly sphinx-like stiff upper lip unmoved unprocessed unresponsive unresponsively unresponsiveness deadpan verb[ I or T ] informaluk /ˈded.pæn/ us /ˈded.pæn/ to make a joke while looking or seeming serious: "The secret to a long life is not dying," she deadpans. These are British comedians deadpanning with their usual dry wit. "Yeah, don't you recognise me?" she deadpans. He deadpanned to the crowd, "I hope you approve." "That was easy," he deadpanned. She deftly deadpans one-liners. He deadpans beautifully in the role. Not showing or feeling emotions anodyne anti-sentimental belie bite bite your lipidiom glaze hard-bitten hardened icily impassive poker face reserved reservedly sphinx-like stiff upper lip unmoved unprocessed unresponsive unresponsively unresponsiveness deadpan | American Dictionarydeadpan adjective, adverb us/ˈdedˌpæn/ looking or seeming serious when you are not, or without an emotion: As an overweight neighbor who drops in periodically, Karen Vaccaro offers a funny deadpan performance. Examples of deadpandeadpan The simplistic solution would be to go for deadpan performances. These timing deviations from deadpan can be reproduced rather accurately by our phrase rule. There are times when, on initial hearings, the playing does seem rather deadpan, due partly to the acoustic and partly to the tempi. Skilled musicians' substantial departures from nominal durations in the score will help music programmers realise that deadpan performance is a musically dead horse. Serious political issues are positioned next to absurdly deadpan comedy without any clear signals as to how we are intended to read them. Their taxonomic language and deadpan expression provoke a pervading sense of melancholy. One may ask, then, why the opportunity to listen to deadpan performances is offered. Kraftwerk played out a deadpan functionalism, whereby the machines began to orchestrate not only the music but seemingly the musicians in charge of the music. The 'punk spirit' of the electronic music scene was soon to emerge with deadpan humour. Indeed, even when a professional singer was asked to perform deadpan versions of some music excerpts, he still tended to introduce these phrase markings (figure 7). The expressiveness of the performances of short excerpts of classical music was varied through asking each musician to play in a deadpan, a normal and an exaggerated manner. The deadpan expression, the emollient remark and the barbed shaft have come from him as though he had been there for thirteen years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have always met a totally negative, unimaginative and deadpan response. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Notwithstanding all the advances in medicine, technology and communications, official attitudes to the claims of disabled people were both deadpan and dismissive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of his television parts were as a stuffy, middle class buffoon, with a stiff upper lip, and he is known for deadpan drollery. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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