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单词 mime
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mime

noun
/maɪm/
/maɪm/
(also less frequent dumbshow)
[uncountable, countable]
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  1. (especially in the theatre) the use of movements of your hands or body and the expressions on your face to tell a story or to act something without speaking; a performance using this method of acting
    • The performance consisted of dance, music and mime.
    • a mime artist
    • She performed a brief mime.
    Topics Film and theatrec2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryMime is used before these nouns:
    • artist
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (also in the sense ‘mimic or jester’): from Latin mimus, from Greek mimos.

mime

verb
/maɪm/
/maɪm/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they mime
/maɪm/
/maɪm/
he / she / it mimes
/maɪmz/
/maɪmz/
past simple mimed
/maɪmd/
/maɪmd/
past participle mimed
/maɪmd/
/maɪmd/
-ing form miming
/ˈmaɪmɪŋ/
/ˈmaɪmɪŋ/
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  1. [transitive, intransitive] to act, tell a story, etc. by moving your body and face but without speaking
    • mime (something) Each player has to mime the title of a movie, play or book.
    • mime doing something He mimed climbing a mountain.
  2. [intransitive, transitive] mime (to something) | mime (something) to pretend to sing a song that is actually being sung by somebody else on a recording
    • The band was miming to a backing track.
    3. Word Originearly 17th cent. (also in the sense ‘mimic or jester’): from Latin mimus, from Greek mimos.
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