| 单词 | stare |
| 释义 | stare (steəʳ ) Word forms: stares , staring , stared 1. verb B2 If you stare at someone or something, you look at them for a long time. Tamara stared at him in disbelief, shaking her head. [VERB preposition/adverb] Ben continued to stare out the window. [VERB preposition/adverb] Mahoney tried not to stare. [VERB] Synonyms: gaze, look, goggle, watch Stare is also a noun. Hlasek gave him a long, cold stare. 2. stare sb in the face phrase If a situation or the answer to a problem is staring you in the face, it is very obvious, although you may not be immediately aware of it. [informal] Then the answer hit me. It had been staring me in the face ever since Lullington. Phrasal verbs: stare out phrasal verb If you stare someone out, you look steadily into their eyes for such a long time that they feel that they have to turn their eyes away from you. She stared him out with hard, pebble-like eyes. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Idioms: stare something in the face to have to deal with a bad situation that is very likely to occur, or is about to occur Some of my patients are actually staring death in the face. They've suffered a heart attack, maybe two. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers stare someone in the face to be very obvious, although someone may not yet have realized this Even when the evidence is staring them in the face, they deliberately misread it. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: glassy stare She gave me a glassy stare. Times, Sunday Times (2009) He had this glassy stare - in a world of his own, completely devoid of emotion. The Sun (2010) Stillness and a glassy stare overwhelm her previously mobile and friendly features faster than a suited compere can shout 'Bullseye'. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Shuffle from foot to foot, slowly bobbing your head while staring dreamily into the middle distance. The Sun (2011) This leaves you free to get on with the important business of sipping butter tea and staring dreamily at summits and sunsets. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Mankind and aliens; each staring dreamily into the other's eyes. Times, Sunday Times (2010) At the Visitor Centre, there's a Brief Encounter exhibition where you can stare dreamily at memorabilia and watch the film for the umpteenth time. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Assume a grimly anxious expression and stare straight ahead with possibly a scornful, dismissive glance up at the big screen. The Sun Several others are wearing their own pairs of glasses and stare straight ahead. Christianity Today That would be to stare straight into the sun itself. Christianity Today I stare straight ahead and imagine what it would be like to crash into a wall. The Sun Head to his homepage and you can control his eyeballs with a flick of the cursor to make him stare straight into your soul. The Sun Others stare vacantly at the walls. Times, Sunday Times Every time he had to send out a messenger to buy a cherrywood pipe, lest he should sit staring vacantly at his work. Times,Sunday Times But she just stares vacantly back at me. The Sun The 79-year-old kept pausing, staring vacantly into space and then veering dangerously off-message. Times, Sunday Times He was staring vacantly into space with earphones clamped to his head, while she endlessly thumbed her mobile phone. Times, Sunday Times Every single person who worked on this project adopts a thousand-yard stare when asked to talk about it. Times, Sunday Times Zoom in on the faces: ashen, open-mouthed, thousand-yard stare. Times, Sunday Times He made small talk but wore a brittle, thousand-yard stare. Times, Sunday Times They can come across as a bit cold to start with, but gradually, you get to see the character behind their enigmatic, thousand-yard stare. Times, Sunday Times Some do the thousand-yard stare at the start, locking themselves into private zones of ambition and fear. Times, Sunday Times It was an unblinking stare into the abyss of grief. Times, Sunday Times (2007) 'It must have been terrifying for Bolt to be fixed by this unblinking stare, ' says my informant. Times, Sunday Times (2008) She appears the model of calm, unwavering serenity, but something about her unblinking stare - and her swift dismissal of a fussy maitre d '- suggests that you wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of her. Times, Sunday Times (2008) I was passing the time with an egg sandwich and a vacant stare at the aisles of magazines. Times, Sunday Times This seeming detachment, coupled with the vacant stare of the dying man lend to this group an air of despondent resignation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A person may repeat the same questions, be slow to respond to questions or directions, have a vacant stare, or have slurred or incoherent speech. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 No preacher wants to preach to empty pews or vacant stares. Christianity Today Translations: Chinese: 盯着看 Japanese: じっと見つめる |
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