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单词 thousand-yard stare
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Definition of thousand-yard stare in English:

thousand-yard stare

noun
  • A vacant or unfocused gaze into the distance, seen as characteristic of a war-weary or traumatized soldier.

    on every bench and wall sit silent hunched figures with thousand-yard stares
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Taylor's pretty gray now and has that thousand yard stare old cowboys get.
    • He'd recognise, too, the look that crosses Moyes's face more and more often, a disarming thousand-yard stare last seen on Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
    • Many had that thousand-yard stare I recognize so well in ranch people, a gaze fixed on the horizon, a look that mingles contemplation with meditation and wariness.
    • The band photos tell the story: three grumpy young guys with lank scruffy hair and thousand-yard stares, all wearing regulation black T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets.
    • He was referring to the ashen-faced patrons with the thousand-yard stares who remained pinned to their seats, following a Sunday matinee showing of Synecdoche, New York
    • In photography this is known as the thousand-yard stare, when a person has seen more than they can cope with and their mind has consequently shut down.
    • He is sporting a Unabomber beard and a zonked-out thousand-yard stare.
    • We maintained our thousand-yard stares into darkness.
    • But Dakota Fanning does the best blue-eyed thousand-yard stare since Hannibal Lecter.
    • Motorists under the influence of Kava had a "thousand-yard stare," Feasel said.
    • Every band member displays disturbing thousand-yard stares.
    • His vacant thousand yard stare said it all.
    • Realizing the implications of what he is doing, he stops abruptly, and a haunted, thousand-yard stare crosses his face.
    • He says he's a maintenance man, but I believe his hobby of amateur taxidermy is linked to his thousand-yard stare and a spate of animal disappearances around the neighbourhood.
    • My face looked like one of those "thousand-yard stare" photos from Vietnam.
    • Under fire, marines acquire the "thousand-yard stare," an ability to see beyond.
    • Think of an edgier Daniel Radcliffe, all messy dark curls and a thousand-yard stare from behind wire-rimmed glasses.
    • On every bench and wall sit silent, hunched figures with thousand-yard stares.
    • The end feeling is that this is a guy who has been through the wringer, but he's still alive and he's learned that at the end of any thousand-yard stare there is the potential for the miraculous.
 
 

Definition of thousand-yard stare in US English:

thousand-yard stare

noun
  • A vacant or unfocused gaze into the distance, seen as characteristic of a war-weary or traumatized soldier.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was referring to the ashen-faced patrons with the thousand-yard stares who remained pinned to their seats, following a Sunday matinee showing of Synecdoche, New York
    • In photography this is known as the thousand-yard stare, when a person has seen more than they can cope with and their mind has consequently shut down.
    • He says he's a maintenance man, but I believe his hobby of amateur taxidermy is linked to his thousand-yard stare and a spate of animal disappearances around the neighbourhood.
    • Motorists under the influence of Kava had a "thousand-yard stare," Feasel said.
    • Many had that thousand-yard stare I recognize so well in ranch people, a gaze fixed on the horizon, a look that mingles contemplation with meditation and wariness.
    • Realizing the implications of what he is doing, he stops abruptly, and a haunted, thousand-yard stare crosses his face.
    • On every bench and wall sit silent, hunched figures with thousand-yard stares.
    • Think of an edgier Daniel Radcliffe, all messy dark curls and a thousand-yard stare from behind wire-rimmed glasses.
    • He'd recognise, too, the look that crosses Moyes's face more and more often, a disarming thousand-yard stare last seen on Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
    • His vacant thousand yard stare said it all.
    • The band photos tell the story: three grumpy young guys with lank scruffy hair and thousand-yard stares, all wearing regulation black T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets.
    • Every band member displays disturbing thousand-yard stares.
    • The end feeling is that this is a guy who has been through the wringer, but he's still alive and he's learned that at the end of any thousand-yard stare there is the potential for the miraculous.
    • He is sporting a Unabomber beard and a zonked-out thousand-yard stare.
    • My face looked like one of those "thousand-yard stare" photos from Vietnam.
    • We maintained our thousand-yard stares into darkness.
    • Under fire, marines acquire the "thousand-yard stare," an ability to see beyond.
    • But Dakota Fanning does the best blue-eyed thousand-yard stare since Hannibal Lecter.
    • Taylor's pretty gray now and has that thousand yard stare old cowboys get.
 
 
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