| 单词 | sphinx-like |
| 释义 | sphinx-like adjective uk/ˈsfɪŋks.laɪk/us/ˈsfɪŋks.laɪk/mysteriousand notallowingpeopletoknowwhat you arethinking: 谜一般的，神秘莫测的Hesatsilentlywith a sphinx-likesmileon hisface.他默不作声地坐着，脸上带着神秘莫测的笑容。 Not showing or feeling emotions
Examplesofsphinx-likesphinx-like The buildings, solid, massive and oftensphinx-like, with an unmistakable sense of compression, also took themselves pretty seriously. FromLos Angeles Times The mender of nets became a far-offsphinx-likefigure. FromProject Gutenberg His face was imperturbable, evensphinx-likein its steadiness. FromProject Gutenberg The grim switchboard flashed its metallic face in cryptic,sphinx-likeimmobility. FromProject Gutenberg After a moment ofsphinx-likecommuning, she dropped her cigarette and rose. FromProject Gutenberg In an agony he tried to call, but no sound escaped the lips, set in asphinx-likesilence. FromProject Gutenberg This is, then, the first form of art-symbolic art with its endless quest, its inner struggle, itssphinx-likemystery, and its sublimity. FromProject Gutenberg Bug buttoned up his lips for asphinx-likesecrecy. FromProject Gutenberg But she lured with her eyes--greatsphinx-likeeyes of hazel-brown--that looked men through and through. FromProject Gutenberg One of the least patient of the cowboys at length deliberately exposed himself to fire from thesphinx-likecabin. FromProject Gutenberg There is every phase of soul-struggle and method from unblushing, business-like bargain and sale tosphinx-likeand purposely unenlightened and ostrich-like submission. FromProject Gutenberg His stolid,sphinx-likeface showed neither fear nor interest. FromProject Gutenberg She was looking straight ahead, her eyes fastened on the two shining buttons of the livery, with thatsphinx-likesmile which women sometimes have. FromProject Gutenberg The younger man watched the still, inscrutable,sphinx-likefigure with eyes of grave speculation. FromProject Gutenberg A frank and open rupture was not in the style or the ideas of her royal andsphinx-likelover. FromProject Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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