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motionlessly

/moh-shuhn-lis/US // ˈmoʊ ʃən lɪs //UK // (ˈməʊʃənlɪs) //

一动不动地,不动声色地,一如既往地,不动声色

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : without motion: a motionless statue.

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Examples

  • We know from fMRI studies that a consistent wiggle of a finger or blinking “yes” at the right questions may reveal an internal life inside a largely motionless body.

  • By then, Floyd was motionless, unconscious and reportedly had no pulse.

  • In the first, called quiet sleep, the octopuses are pale and motionless with the pupils of their eyes narrowed to slits.

  • She hung up the phone and stood motionless for just a moment.

  • The chair keeps moving constantly, and with your eyes shut, you think you’re motionless.

  • He fell 40 feet and fractured his skull, hip, and nose, and lay there motionless.

  • He remained motionless in the next shot but the fear of what was to follow was etched on his face.

  • “He immediately dropped to the ground in front of the door where he remained motionless,” the criminal complaint says.

  • Surrounded by family and friends, he sat shirtless and motionless leaning forward in a chair on the dirt in front of his hut.

  • I witnessed that tragedy a few blocks from where it occurred, standing motionless at 8th Street and 6th Avenue in lower Manhattan.

  • A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.

  • When he was gone, Isaacson stood by the mantel-piece for nearly five minutes, thinking and motionless.

  • Motionless she stood, straining eye and ear; she could hear nothing, but the gestures told much.

  • The leaves were motionless, the river crept past without a murmur, the dark hills rose out of the distant desert like a wave.

  • The major and Hicks, who stood not far from him, were both unusually pale in the face, as they gazed motionless before them.