tongue-tied / ˈtʌŋˌtaɪd /

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tongue-tied 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. unable to speak, as from shyness, embarrassment, or surprise.
  2. affected with tongue-tie.

tongue-tied 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

unable to speak

更多tongue-tied例句

  1. After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.
  2. In this American dream, we are emotionally tied to the people and land of our communities.
  3. Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.
  4. If this Dear Leader is definitively tied to the Sony hack, we may be at the beginning of an even more dangerous new era.
  5. The second is strangled tongue disease, the English inability to express real feelings in conversation.
  6. “Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
  7. Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
  8. The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
  9. Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.
  10. If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.