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单词 Mona Lisa
释义 Mona Lisa|ˈməʊnə ˈliːzə|
[It.]
The name of a portrait painted by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), used allusively and attrib. of an enigmatic smile or expression such as that of the woman in this painting. Also fig. See also Gioconda.
1923D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 162 She, smiling with goaty munch-mouth, Mona Lisa, arranges it so.1930J. Collier His Monkey Wife xiv. 197 She eyed Emily with what had been called, in her last year at school, her Mona Lisa smile.1934T. S. Eliot Elizabethan Essays 60 It [sc. Hamlet] is the ‘Mona Lisa’ of literature.1950A. Wilson Such Darling Dodos 59 She twisted her face into what she felt to be a more than usually Mona Lisa smile.1967J. Creasey Famine xii. 113 She stood in front of him with that half-smile, a Mona Lisa kind of inscrutability.1975G. Lyall Judas Country xxx. 215 Mitzi was looking at me with a little mousey Mona Lisa smile.
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