| 单词 | to look blank |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto look blank 5. Of persons: (Looking) as if deprived of the faculty of speech or action; ‘shut up,’ utterly disconcerted, discomfited, resourceless, or non-plussed; now chiefly in to look blank: cf. A. 4c. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [adjective] > prevented or checked > completely stuck or at an impasse stalec1470 blank1542 enterprised1560 nonplus1589 bogged1605 nonplussed1606 blanked1611 stymied1862 deadlocked1880 stalemated1903 banjaxed1939 snookered1961 gridlock1983 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 61 Beeyng confounded and made blanke in a disputacion of a certain feloe. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 719 These fellowes be blanke, or out of harte and courage. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxi. 184 The Damsell of Burgundie, at sight of her own letter, was soon blank. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) iii. iii. 149 How blank must [Moses] needs have looked, to see his great works patterned by those presumptuous rivals? 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 890 Adam..amaz'd, Astonied stood and Blank . View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 7. ¶1 Upon this I looked very blank. 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 98 The blank Assistants seem'd, Silent, to ask, whom Fate would next demand. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. xi. 241 The two old men looked at each other with blank and horror-stricken faces. < as lemmas |
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