[countableC, uncountableU]AP the use of movements to express what you want to say without using words, or a play where the actors use only movements 〔不用语言的〕比画;哑剧表演;哑剧
The children learn through role-play, dance and mime.
1APTto describe or express something, using movements not words 以哑剧形式表演;比画着表达
Stan put a finger to his mouth, miming ‘shush’.
斯坦把手指放在嘴上,做出“嘘”的样子。
mime doing something
Soundlessly, she mimed picking up a phone and speaking into it.
她无声地比画着拿起电话听筒说话的样子。
2to pretend to play or sing a piece of music, without making any sound 〔不出声地〕模拟演奏[歌唱]的动作
mime to
Singers on television often mime to pre-recorded tapes.
电视里的歌手经常跟着预先录制好的磁带假唱。
Examples from the Corpus
mime• They mimed a tug of war.• Phagu mimed back that we had no choice.• Everywhere he went running, running, running; and on the spot he mimed it.• Soundlessly she mimedpicking up a phone and speaking into it.• Langford is pointing at him, his face in profilemiming shock-horror: a lost joke.• I mimed that this was not necessary but he insisted.• Every derangement of the page-space deftly mimes the current derangement of the house-space in the narrative.• Chutra and Koju mimed their technique.
Originmime1
(1600-1700)Latinmimus, from Greekmimos“copier, mimic”