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smiley

/smahy-lee/US // ˈsmaɪ li //UK // (ˈsmaɪlɪ) //

笑脸,笑容,微笑,笑话

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural smil·eys.Also called smiley face .

    • : a digital icon, a sequence of keyboard symbols, or a handwritten or printed equivalent, that serves to represent a facial expression, as :‐) for a smiling face or ;‐) for a winking face.Compare emoticon.
    • : Usually smile face . a drawing of a face consisting of a usually yellow circle with an upturned curve for a smile and two dots for eyes.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : cheerful; smiling.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • He included an emoji of a smiley face spouting tears of laughter.

  • In a guest book outside the door, Greene writes “You’re a traitor,” accompanied by a smiley face.

  • That’s totally different from basic smiley face emoji, for example.

  • Flash forward to today, and those smiley faces may be key to saving us from the Covid-19 pandemic—or other viral foes lurking in our future.

  • Tavis Smiley, the PBS talk show host and close friend to Cornel West, often credits West with having a “useable intellect.”

  • Smiley, meanwhile, tried to tamp down fears by comparing the Ebola outbreak to the SARS outbreak of 2003.

  • Tavis Smiley criticized the media for Ebola fear-mongering, and George Will claimed the virus could spread through the air.

  • Smiley is a PBS talk show host who has written several previous books about the African-American experience.

  • A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley Lear gave away his kingdom.

  • It is where the stranger says to Smiley, "I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog."

  • And you—why should you be going to expense, and knocking out things that costs money, because Mother Smiley's coming?

  • If she could get him to swallow some hot food before Mrs. Smiley came, all might yet be well.

  • He was thinking of Miriam Usbech as she was twenty years ago, and of Mrs. Smiley as she appeared at present.

  • He was considered to have made his offer, and Mrs. Smiley thereupon formally accepted him.