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mien

/meen/US // min //UK // (miːn) //

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.: a man of noble mien.

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Examples

  • As if instead of reading lullabies, Palestinians read their kids Mien Kempf.

  • Scott, who rode the Tea Party wave into office in 2010, had a much different mien.

  • Elegant, minimally clad mannequins view passersby with an arrogant mien.

  • In contrast to the serious, scholarly mien that cloaks her usual nonfiction, this book is rich with poetry and pathos.

  • With their muscled gender-obliterating mien, they compelled few people to listen as they performed.

  • Santa Cruz embraced him, with more agitation than his stately mien might have announced.

  • The priest of Nicaragua with solemn mien strides up the aisle and lights the altar candles with the fire struck from his cigar.

  • He rose too, and across the table he confronted his guest, his mien haughty, his eyes imperious.

  • His mien was terrific, and his voice the more threatening in that it was not raised above a whisper.

  • Unfortunately all this paper does not feed him; and he is so thin, has such a mien, that you ask yourself on what he lives.