| 单词 | expressive |
| 释义 | ex·pres·sive 1. < the expressive function of language > < architecture … has its limitations as an expressive medium — Robin Boyd > 2. < spent much time in Arizona … and left many canvases expressive of its vitality and color — American Guide Series: Arizona > < poems and prayers … expressive of the deepest religious experiences — Saturday Review > 3. < richly expressive gestures > < an expressive silence > < a homely whistling sound which … was terribly expressive — William Zukerman > < still cling to their “'tain't so” and “'twan't nothin'” because their fathers found these so expressive — American Guide Series: North Carolina > Synonyms: < her forehead had been strikingly expressive of an engrossing terror and compassion that saw nothing but the peril of the accused — Charles Dickens > < he used foul and novel terms expressive of rage — H.G.Wells > < described by such epithets as vital, characteristic, picturesque, individual — in short, on the element that may be summed up by the epithet expressive — Irving Babbitt > eloquent may intensify the notions of expressive, especially in evoking emotional ideas or arousing deep feeling < no man is eloquent save when someone is moved as he listens — John Dewey > < there was a burst of applause, and a deep silence which was even more eloquent than the applause — Thomas Hardy > < I could scarcely remove my eyes from her eloquent countenance: I seemed to read in it relief and gladness mingled with surprise and something like vexation — W.H.Hudson †1922 > significant is applicable to whatever expresses a meaning, sometimes a covert or hidden meaning, sometimes a clearly ascertainable idea, sometimes an important meaning < those who lay down that every sentence must end on a significant word, never on a preposition — Havelock Ellis > < every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world — S.P.Sherman > meaningful may have the suggestion of significant; it may be used simply to indicate presence of meaning < some brilliant minds to whom the carefully turned phrase and the meaningful metaphor are very important — D.W.Maurer & V.H.Vogel > pregnant may describe that which conveys a rich or weighty meaning, often with force or conciseness < who has not had the experience of resolving a difficulty with the help of a sentence pregnant with life's meaning, some well-phrased words of wisdom, or a poem that came to mind at a critical moment? — Vivian T. Thayer > < no talent for revealing a character or resuming the significance of an episode in a single pregnant phrase — W.S.Maugham > sententious may apply to what is full of significance and expressed tersely < clarity is gained by a brief and almost sententious statement at the outset of the problem to be attacked — B.N.Cardozo > < the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams — Hervey Allen > |
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