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wordlessly

/wurd-lis/US // ˈwɜrd lɪs //UK // (ˈwɜːdlɪs) //

无声地,无言地,无声无息地,无声无息

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : speechless, silent, or mute.
    • : not put into words; unexpressed.

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Examples

  • In the movie’s gorgeously shot, wordless opening, a teenage girl escorts her little brother to school by pulling him along on a rough wooden board fitted with wheels.

  • His Underground Railroad lingers on individual images, incorporating wordless, lyrical passages that reveal characters’ interior landscapes.

  • The law firm claimed that the user posted the wordless one-star review to their Google My Business listing with the intent to cause damage to their reputation or profession and to dissuade potential clients from doing business with them.

  • “We conclude that, as a matter of law, a one-star wordless review posted on Google Review is an expression of opinion protected by the First Amendment,” the Michigan court stated.

  • The image is so familiar as to leave an art reviewer wordless.

  • This creative experiment in virtually wordless filmmaking, which we ended up calling Day One, freed us in so many ways.

  • The Caldecott-honored Red Book by Barbara Lehman has been described as “a wordless mind trip for tots.”

  • Behind the commonplace sentences, the hidden wordless Play also drew on towards its Curtain.

  • The verbose Marmot, wordless; the listless Slaughter, dominant.

  • Hitherto they had been voiceless, wordless, needing all their breath for their hard-labouring efforts to break down the gates.

  • The ice around Xenie's frozen heart melted at that wordless prayer.

  • He was, said Larry, grim and he rarely spoke; but a close, wordless friendship had developed between them.