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stare

/stair/US // stɛər //UK // (stɛə) //

凝视,瞠目结舌,凝视着,凝神静气

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v.无主动词 verb
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    stared, star·ing.

    • : to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
    • : to be boldly or obtrusively conspicuous: The bright modern painting stares out at you in the otherwise conservative gallery.
    • : to stand on end; bristle.
v.有主动词 verb
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    stared, star·ing.

    • : to stare at: to stare a person up and down.
    • : to effect or have a certain effect on by staring: to stare one out of countenance.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open: The banker greeted him with a glassy stare.
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    • : stare down, to cause to become uncomfortable by gazing steadily at one; overcome by staring: A nonsmoker at the next table tried to stare me down.

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Examples

  • One cicada even landed on top of my muzzle and looked me in the eyes with a cold stare.

  • "How low this Court's respect for stare decisis has sunk," Sotomayor wrote.

  • In their midst stands a soldier with the Lebanese armed forces in a red beret, sporting an assault rifle and an unblinking stare.

  • Then he's quiet, while I, nonplussed, just stare until he adds, “The camera must never move.”

  • In the case of Steven Eugene Washington, nothing more than a blank stare made him a target for police bullets.

  • The teen refused to drop his knife, according to officers, fixed them with “a 100-yard stare,” and walked toward them.

  • “Hell yeah,” he says with a smile and a piercing, blue-eyed stare.

  • Blanche sat there with her little excited, yet innocent—too innocent—stare; her eyes followed Mrs. Vivian's.

  • At the station the head porter received their inquiry for a Bradshaw with a dull stare and a shake of the head.

  • Among others, an Abb thrice lifted his fork to his mouth, and thrice laid it down, with an eager stare of surprise.

  • The poor child didn't understand why Teacher Thomas should stare so at her, and she let out one long, unending bleat.

  • Jessie forbade her chum to tell, by a hard stare and a determined shake of her head.