| 单词 | thousand-mile stare |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthousand-mile stare thousand-mile stare n. originally U.S. a vacant or unfocused gaze into the distance; = thousand-yard stare n. at Additions. ΚΠ 1944 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye Gaz. 25 Feb. 1/7 We've got that thousand-mile stare. Before we hit the southwest Pacific, we carried the army to Kiska and Attu. 1968 R. J. Lifton Death in Life 86 Conditions like the ‘vacuum state’ or ‘thousand-mile stare’ may be thought of as apathy, but are also profound expressions of despair. 2015 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 24 May (Sunday Life section) 15 I yarned with hippies, Vietnam vets and farmers with thousand-mile stares. < as lemmas |
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