| 单词 | impassive |
| 释义 | im·passive 1. a. archaic b. < a dial cut in impassive stone — Virginia Woolf > c. < the violet pallor of death … enveloped her in an impassive remoteness — Ellen Glasgow > < a large dull impassive man > 2. < beneath a reserved and impassive surface, a highly nervous and sensitive person — Havelock Ellis > < a cold impassive stare — Charles Dickens > 3. < we can load up a piece of amber … with the greatest possible excess of negative charge, and still it remains absolutely impassive in the presence of a magnet — K.K.Darrow > Synonyms: < the veil of impassive reserve with which I concealed the whole of my intimate personal life — Havelock Ellis > < I watched the man's face while Nelson was relating the story, but he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > stoic may suggest an indifference to pain or pleasure, perhaps through a conscious schooling of oneself in fortitude < it sums up not only the cataclysm of a world, but also the stoic and indomitable temper that endures it — J.L.Lowes > < a stoic atmosphere of fortitude in adversity — Orville Prescott > apathetic may describe a puzzling, remiss, or blameworthy indifference or a preoccupation with something else that precludes normal interest and reactions < enforcement of the liquor laws was lax, and sentiment was apathetic to the evils of excessive drinking — C.A.Dinsmore > < the row of stolid, dull, vacant plowboys, ungainly in build, uncomely in face, lifeless, apathetic — Samuel Butler †1902 > phlegmatic describes a temperament or disposition not given to ready emotional reaction or similar response < the religious mysticism that lurked in the heart of primitive Puritanism found no response in his phlegmatic soul — V.L.Parrington > stolid implies an accustomed heavy or cloddish obtuse inperceptive and incurious lack of interest, emotion, or other response < an agricultural parish, peopled by stolid Saxon rustics, in whom the temperature of religious zeal was little, if at all, above absolute zero — Aldous Huxley > < watched for an expression of hatred, or pity, or horror, on the faces of the multitude. No emotion whatsoever was displayed — nothing but stolid indifference — V.G.Heiser > |
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