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tongue-tied

/tuhng-tahyd/US // ˈtʌŋˌtaɪd //

结舌,结舌的,碍口,碍手碍脚

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Definitions

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

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Examples

  • After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.

  • In this American dream, we are emotionally tied to the people and land of our communities.

  • Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.

  • If this Dear Leader is definitively tied to the Sony hack, we may be at the beginning of an even more dangerous new era.

  • The second is strangled tongue disease, the English inability to express real feelings in conversation.

  • “Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.

  • Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

  • The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.

  • Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.

  • If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.