EXPRESSION ON somebody'S FACEsounding and looking completely serious when you are saying or doing something funny 故作严肃的,冷面滑稽的
deadpan voice/expression etc
deadpan humour
冷面幽默
Examples from the Corpus
deadpan• This, and the fact that Mike was a competitor, seemed to get Dmitri edgy: his face went entirely deadpan.• "We're out of gas, so I guess you'll have to walk home, " he said, giving me a deadpanexpression.• a deadpan expression• Garcia turns in another soulful-eyed but deadpanperformance.• The thirdlady who wants more than lunch is Bowles, who describes their flight from convention in deadpanstyle.