DON'T LIKESMILEto twist your face in an ugly way because you do not like something, because you are feeling pain, or because you are trying to be funny 〔因不喜欢某物、感到疼痛或开玩笑时〕扭曲脸部,做怪相
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She grimaced at her reflection in the mirror.
她对着镜中的自己做了个怪脸。
She sipped the whisky and grimaced.
她呷了一口威士忌,做了个怪相。
Examples from the Corpus
grimace• The screaming would not stop, and he grimaced.• He grimaced and scratched his short, curly black hair where it stuck out from under his tartancap.• Stadler, meanwhile, was grimacing and snarling with every strut of his corpulent form.• The flackgrimaced and walked away, muttering.• Vic grimaces at his own reflection, as if to say: come off it, no identitycrises, please.• He married his high school sweetheart, though he grimaces at that term.• Justin said, grimacing at the recollection.• She grimaced for Anna to step over it too, but the child trod on it before Liz could wrench her arm.
grimace at• Hannegan grimaced at the big black painting on the wall.
grimace2 noun [countableC] written
DON'T LIKEPAINan expression you make by twisting your face because you do not like something or because you are feeling pain 脸部扭曲,怪相,鬼脸〔指不喜欢某物或感到疼痛时的面部表情〕
His face twisted in a grimace of pain.
他痛得龇牙咧嘴。
a grimace of disgust
表示厌恶的怪相
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grimace• He saw me without surprise, with a small smile, almost a grimace, on his face.• Bernie gave a grimace of disgust and left the room.• Her severed head flopped on a bin of guts, yellowbeak in a grimace - take me with you?• A grimacedistorted her finemouth.• More screams and grimaces and thrashing about, and then purevertigo.• Maryellen, standing beside them, looks at the bruisedskin and grimaces.• There were a lot of grimaces, and a little drybarksometimes, but never a laugh.• He was runty and snuffling and the left half of his face had a permanentgrimace.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + GRIMACE | GRIMACE + VERB | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤little, slight, small有些扭曲的表情➤pained, painful (especially NAmE) 疼痛的/痛苦的表情▸➤wry哭笑不得的表情▸➤facial鬼臉VERB + GRIMACE➤give (sb), make(對某人)做怪相;扮鬼臉◇She made a wry grimace.她做出一副哭笑不得的表情。➤twist into扭曲成一副怪相◇His face twisted into a grimace.他的臉扭曲成一副怪相。GRIMACE + VERB➤twist sth⋯扭曲成怪相◇An ugly grimace twisted her face.她扮了個鬼臉,臉都扭曲了。PREPOSITION➤with a grimace帶着一副怪相◇He acknowledged his mistake with a wry grimace.他做了個怪怪的表情,算是認了錯。➤grimace of因⋯而面部扭曲◇a grimace of disgust / pain因厭惡/痛苦而面部扭曲grimace
verb
ADVERB | PREPOSITIONADVERB➤slightly面部稍有些扭曲➤inwardly內心哭笑不得PREPOSITION➤at因⋯而面部扭曲;對⋯扮鬼臉◇He grimaced slightly at the pain.他痛得臉都有些歪了。◇She grimaced at him.她衝他扮了個鬼臉。➤in, with因⋯而面部扭曲◇She grimaced in disgust.她露出厭惡的表情。