英:['sɪmpərɪŋ]
美:['sɪmpərɪŋ]
英:['sɪmpərɪŋ]
美:['sɪmpərɪŋ]
adj.
傻笑的
v.
傻笑,假笑( simper的现在分词 )
傻[假]笑着说出
adjective
marked by insipidity or by affected or ingratiating timidity a simpering smile/tone During job interviews, I always felt like a simpering idiot.—Nancy Scott Hanway … spoofy moments featuring a simpering newswoman …—Pauline Kael … the indignities of office life, from boorish bosses to simpering middle managers to byzantine bureaucracies.—Charles Bramesco
simpering behavior
"受影响的,愚蠢的,傻笑的",来自1580年代的现在分词形容词 simper (v.)。相关词汇: Simperingly。
from present participle of simper >entry 1
The first known use of simpering was in 1553
1 Facing the simpering waiter, I lost my appetite and didn't want to eat anything.
面对这个满脸假笑的侍应生,我掉了胃口,什么东西也吃不下去了。
2 And then there's Hermione, simpering with jealously but determined not to show her feelings.
然而赫敏出于嫉妒地带着假笑,但是却铁了心不把自己的真实情感表露出来。
3 He saw the weak and sickly faces of the girls of the factories, and the simpering, boisterous girls from the south of Market.
他看见工厂女工们菜色的衰弱的脸,市场南面的妇女们痴笑的喧嚣的脸。
4 The Crown has become too simpering, and has suffered for that reverence.
5 a silly simpering girl
扭捏作态、嘻嘻傻笑的女孩子
6 Lydgate's conceit was of the arrogant sort, never simpering , never impertinent.
利德盖特的自负是一种傲气, 它从不嗤笑, 从不盛气凌人.
7 Then there is spring, the season for simpering adolescents , May flies and impressionable poetasters.
再说春天吧.那是乐呵呵的小青年, 多愁善感的三流诗人和蜉蝣的季节.
2 谄媚的
3 虚情假意的
4 卖弄风情的
6 傻笑
7 卖弄风情