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单词 smile
释义 smile
I. \ˈsmīl, esp before pause or consonant -īəl\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English smilen; akin to Old English smerian to laugh at, Low German smilen to smile, obsolete Dutch smuilen, Old High German smierōn, Middle High German smielen, Swedish & Norwegian smila to smile, Latin mirus wonderful, mirari to wonder, wonder at, Greek meidian to smile, Tocharian A smi-, Sanskrit smayate he smiles
intransitive verb
1. : to have, produce, or exhibit a smile
 < by this time the infant … may even laugh or smile at his mother — H.R.Litchfield & L.H.Dembo >
2.
 a. : to look or regard with amusement, ridicule, contempt, or indulgence
  < smile indulgently at his quiddities >
  < smiled at his own folly for engaging in such a business — Martin Gardner >
 b. : to look or seem to look with favor : bestow approval : be propitious
  < could hardly be blamed for feeling that Heaven smiled on his labors — Sheila Rowlands >
  < circumstances happen to smile around him — Glenway Westcott >
 c. : to look or appear pleasant or agreeable : present a gay, sparkling, thriving, or benignant aspect
  < a lake, warm and smiling and margined with green trees and grass — American Guide Series: Oregon >
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to affect in some way with a smile or by a smile
  < smiling away her embarrassment — C.S.Forester >
 b. : to effect or accomplish by smiling
  < you thanked them and smiled your way out of it before you started crying yourself — Fred Majdalany >
2. obsolete : to regard with disdain : hold in contempt
 < smile you my speeches, as I were a fool — Shakespeare >
3. : to express by a smile
 < smiling his pleasure at the happy outcome — E.B.George >
 < smiled a doubt as to their capacity — Irving Howe >
4. : to form one's face into (a smile)
 < smiled a filial smile — Charles Dickens >
II. noun
(-s)
1. : a change of facial expression involving a brightening of the eyes and an upward curving of the corners of the mouth with no sound and less muscular distortion of the features than in a laugh that may express amusement, pleasure, tender affection, approval, restrained mirth, irony, derision, or any of various other emotions
 < an infectious public smileTime >
 < the slight superior smile of the man who is sure that he has the future — O.W.Holmes †1935 >
 < wears a fixed smile on her made-up face — C.W.Mills >
2. : a bright, pleasant, gratifying, or encouraging appearance or aspect
 < the smile of sunlit sea half a mile or so away — Blanche E. Baughan >
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