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dead air

死气沉沉的空气,死气沉沉,死气沉沉的气氛,死气沉沉的声音

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the loss or suspension of the video or audio signal during a television or radio transmission.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as insilence
as innoiselessness
as inquietness
as insoundlessness
as inspeechlessness

Examples

  • Silence, meanwhile, is typically seen as a sign that one side is stumped—dead air is for losers.

  • The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.

  • A policewoman was shot dead this morning while law enforcement searched for the Charlie Lebdo killers.

  • And Air Force assessors are the first to say such imaging never tells the whole story.

  • Sprawled on chaise lounges with their knees high in the air and their legs spread wide.

  • Indeed, Lion Air, with 45 percent of the domestic Indonesian airline market, has swallowed the Fernandes formula whole.

  • A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

  • Bells were pealing and tolling in all directions, and the air was filled with the sound of distant shouts and cries.

  • It is to be remembered, however, that a few of these bacteria may reach the sputum from the upper air-passages.

  • We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.

  • He stood, with the air of a hero, both arms extended towards the amazed pair of lovers.