英:[ˈrɪktəs]
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英:[ˈrɪktəs]
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ric·tus
rIk ts
复数:rictuses或rictus
rictal (adj.)
noun
the opening or gape (see gape entry 2 sense 2a) of a mouthespecially: the gape of a bird's mouth
the edge or margin of the upper or lower mandible of an animal (such as a bird or snake)also: the point or angle where the upper and lower mandible of an animal meet
a rigid grin or grimace usually with the mouth open or lips parted There, on the monitors in freeze frame, is Jack Nicholson, a hideous rictus carved onto his leering countenance.—Bill Zehme—sometimes used before another noun… Billie Shepherd tried to spice up the ice with a girl-powered routine but was so nervous, her face was frozen in a rictus grin.—Michael Hogan
At the beach bar of a St Lucia hotel, Doc pulls his face into a welcoming rictus and steels himself for the Happy Hour invasion.—Rhoda Koenig
[拉]裂,裂口
呵欠
New Latin, from Latin, open mouth, from ringi to open the mouth; akin to Old Church Slavonic rǫgŭ mockery
The first known use of rictus was in 1685
1 Zola finishes her speech and grins uncomfortably at the rictus breaking across Stefani's face and the glowing eyes above it.
2 It doesn’t take much for clowns to be creepy — the unnatural colors and rictus grins do the heavy lifting — an effect that’s been exploited by schlock horror for eons.
3 This alone began to draw an increased number of visitors, especially young couples locked in the rictus of Victorian courtship and needful of quiet dark places.
4 His face was set in a rictus of death that was somewhat like a smile.
他的面容带着亡故后的张嘴结舌,有点像在微笑。
5 He was nearly out of his chair, inches from Vidal, his face, as Christopher Hitchens recalls in the film, “a rictus of loathing.”
6 The Attenborough smile may have crinkled into Saint Nick benevolence in his seventies, but early on it was the chummy rictus of a man intent on taking your watch, your wife or your life.
7 Penny’s mouth was frozen in a rictus of a smile.
8 She guffaws herself into an asthmatic rasp, and her whole face seems to change shape as she performs, shaking plumply or stretched wide in a violent rictus grin.
9 He is seated behind the Resolute desk, his Chiclet teeth exposed in a rictus of extreme jollity.
10 By pouring plaster into these holes and then removing the surrounding ash, the archaeologists were left with exquisitely detailed facsimiles of Pompeians, in some cases showing the type of fabric worn by the victims and even faces contorted eerily in the rictus of death.
11 Rob Lowe has a hilarious cameo as a sinister plastic surgeon, whose face is pulled so taut his gives him a rictus grin and almond shaped eyes.
12 Pollard’s face was a rictus of agony, his lips peeled back over his teeth, and gusts of pain were rolling through his body and escaping through his mouth in deep guttural roars.
13 Photograph: Barclaycard The man in the picture has a phone clamped to one ear, an armful of shopping, two children running riot around him and a rictus grin stapled to his face.
14 At around eight o’clock, the three-tiered cake—topped with a meringue Resolute desk, a meringue Donald Trump, and a rictus meringue Mooch—disappears and reappears as pale slices ribboned with cannoli cream.
15 It was clearly a scream—the rictus tension in her face, head thrust forward, throat stretched taut—but no sound came out.
16 As you are wheeled backwards towards the exit your response is your own: in my case a rictus grin concealing a prickle of tears.
17 He has a point: swaying gently a few feet from the ground, Bruce on the trumpet is wearing the kind of rictus grin that conveys abject terror.
18 Frank O'Hara, poet and curator at the Museum of Modern Art, shows his discoloured teeth in a rictus of nervous laughter.
19 That's not because I'm so pure, just that I don't like that rictus smile.
20 And then Rose begins to see people around her smiling in a horrifying way, a twisted rictus that is the least happy grin of all time.