Grimace

(noun.) a contorted facial expression; 'she made a grimace at the prospect'.

(verb.) contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state; 'He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do'.

校对:索尼亚

• You're a damned rogue, says the old gentleman, making a hideous grimace at the door as he shuts it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Helena made a pretty grimace, and ordered Maurice back to his chair, which was at a safe distance, and did not admit of any embarrassing endearments. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• She made a slight grimace. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mrs. Fisher made a slight grimace. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• He made a grimace which was habitual with him whenever he was out in a game; then subsided into a laugh, and drew a brandy-flask from his pocket. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The old man listened with a grimace while she spoke, and then said, relaxing his face, The more fools they. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He made a curious grimace--one of his strange and equivocal demonstrations--threw down his cue and followed me from the room. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• They were both silent again, and Archer felt the spectre of Count Olenski's letter grimacing hideously between them. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Mademoiselle, he said, grimacing a half-smile, or what he intended for a smile, though it was but a grim and hurried manifestation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Having once caught the bridle, he mastered it directly and sprang to his saddle; grimacing grimly as he made the effort, for it wrenched his sprain. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The most extraordinary thing about the man was, that he was contorting his face into the most fearful and astonishing grimaces that ever were beheld. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mr. Featherstone's face required its whole scale of grimaces as a muscular outlet to his silent triumph in the soundness of his faculties. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• For caresses, too, I now got grimaces; for a pressure of the hand, a pinch on the arm; for a kiss on the cheek, a severe tweak of the ear. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• His well-laid plan had come to naught, so he sat there screaming at the roaring creature beneath him and making mocking grimaces at it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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