| 释义 |
motionless, a.|ˈməʊʃənlɪs|
[f. motion n. + -less.]
Having no motion or movement, not moving. Also, incapable of motion.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. ii. 50 And in their pale dull mouthes the Iymold Bitt Lyes foule with chaw'd grasse, still and motionlesse. 1634Milton Comus 819 The Lady that sits here In stony fetters fixt, and motionless. 1742Young Nt. Th. v. 189 All the live-long night, Rigid in thought, and motionless, he stands. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) I. 38 The tongue [of fish] is in general motionless, obtuse, and fleshy. 1883J. Gilmour Mongols 362 Etiquette requiring them to remain motionless at the board.
Hence ˈmotionlessness.
1817J. Gilchrist Intell. Patrimony 23 The agreeableness that the sentient frame finds in motionlessness. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. Wks. 1900 V. 207 The silence and motionlessness of the whole added to its awfulness. |