impassive

英 [ɪmˈpæsɪv]

美 [ɪmˈpæsɪv]

adj.  无表情的; 无动于衷的; 不动声色的

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Collins.1 / BNC.16787 / COCA.18936

牛津词典

adj.

• 无表情的；无动于衷的；不动声色的
  not showing any feeling or emotion
  1. her impassive expression/face
     她冷漠的表情 / 面容

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 喜怒不形于色的;不露感情的;面无表情的
  If someone isimpassiveor their face isimpassive, they are not showing any emotion.
  1. He searched Hill's impassive face for some indication that he understood...
     他盯着希尔毫无表情的面孔，寻找着表明他已明白的些许迹象。
  2. As the foreman of the jury announced the verdict, Miss Allan remained impassive.
     陪审团主席宣布裁决时,艾伦小姐一直面无表情。

双语例句

• Michael's face was impassive when he said to his brother," you straightened out, freddie?"
  迈克尔的脸上毫无表情。他对自己的哥哥说：“弗烈特，你给教训过了，对吗？”
• The endless repetition and impassive intonation made it sound like a prop from a horror film.
  没完没了的重复和机械的语调让它听上去就像是恐怖片中的道具。
• His face is impassive.
  冷漠的表情。
• The defendant remained impassive as the judge sentenced him to death.
  当法官宣布被告死刑时他始终毫无表情。
• As to Chinese immigrants, he spoke in a stiff and impassive manner and emphasized that Chinese laborers should be excluded strictly.
  对中国移民，他态度生硬、冷漠，强调要严格排斥劳工；
• As wanyne enters, he finds four impassive faces regarding him coolly.
  韦恩走进来，看见四张毫无表情的脸冷冰冰地看着他。
• Michael kept his face impassive. I won't stand by and see them suffer like that.
  迈克尔的脸始终装出无动于衷的样子。我不能无动于衷，看他们受这样的罪。
• He was so dull at parties; a dull political campaign; a large dull impassive man; dull days with nothing to do; how dull and dreary the world is; fell back into one of her dull moods.
  他在晚会上很沉闷；沉闷的政治活动；非常沉闷、冷漠的人；无所事事的沉闷日子；这是个多么沉闷的世界呀；她的心情陷入了沉闷。
• Don Corleone listened like a priest in the confessional, gazing away into the distance, impassive, remote.
  堂-科利昂象个告解室里的祖父一样听着，向远处凝视着，没有表情，冷漠。
• Jackson: How can you be impassive, as if nothing had happened, when you know that he has taken away your customers?
  张三：他把你的客户抢走了，你为什么可以若无其事？