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A person’s mien is the look they wear on their face and in the way they hold themselves — the feeling you get from their expression and bearing, before they speak. A calm mien, a proud mien, a tired mien. It is about appearance as character, not about clothes or whether someone is pretty. Though actually it is a rather word. Almost nobody says it in the shop or on the bus. You meet it in stories and older writing. In real talk people say look, expression, or the way someone carries themselves. You would not use it for a building, and you would not shout it across a room.
神情、神態（較書面，不是口語的「長相」）
組成From French mine, meaning appearance. Scholars are not sure of the next step — perhaps a Breton word for an animal’s face, or a Latin verb meaning to make red — so we leave it there.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Mienname
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A group of related languages spoken by the Yao people.
miennoun/miːn/
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Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
- Gentlest Guardians marked serene / His early hope, his liberal mien; […]
- Beauty, like all divine gifts, is everywhere to be seen by the eye of the faithful admirer of nature; and, like all spirits, she is scarcely to be described by words. Her countenance and mien, her path, her hue and carriage, often surpass expression, and soothe the enthusiast into reverie and silence.
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A specific facial expression.
- It’s hard to say which is worse: the press-on smiles favored by many a ballet dancer, or the stony “I’m going to pretend this isn’t happening to me” miens often found in contemporary troupes like White Road.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。