| 单词 | visage |
| 释义 | visage (once / 1028 pages) n Visage is a literary term for referring to someone's face or facial features. You may notice that some face creams use the word visage to try to sound fancier than they are. A famous use of visage is in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Brutus says: "O conspiracy/Shamest thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,/When evils are most free? O, then by day/Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough/To mask thy monstrous visage?" Now there's a quote that will help you remember the meaning of visage, and even give you nightmares. WORD FAMILYvisage: envisage, visages+/envisage: envisaged, envisages, envisaging USAGE EXAMPLESThe same thing happened in 2012, when unsold sweaters and wall clocks bearing the visage of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney were donated off. Los Angeles Times(Dec 22, 2016) Guevara was killed at age 39, and today his visage graces T-shirts, keychains and refrigerator magnets around the world. Seattle Times(Nov 27, 2016) You can’t size up a new visage, yet the grottoes in your head have more to plumb if your sight was lost midlife or later. New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) 1n the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) Syn|Hypo|Hyper countenance, kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler pudding face, pudding-face a large fat human face face, human face the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear 2n the appearance conveyed by a person's face a stern visage Syn|Hypo|Hyper countenance aspect, expression, face, facial expression, look the feelings expressed on a person's face poker facea face without any interpretable expression (as that of a good poker player) leera suggestive or sneering look or grin light, spark, sparkle, twinklemerriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance appearance, visual aspect outward or visible aspect of a person or thing |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。