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If you are open-mouthed, your mouth has fallen wide open because you are very surprised or shocked. For a moment you are not thinking about your face; the feeling has done it for you.
If you are open-mouthed如果你是open-mouthed,your mouth has fallen wide open because you are very surprised or shocked代表你的嘴巴因為非常驚訝或震驚而張得大大的。For a moment you are not thinking about your face那一刻你根本沒在想自己的表情;the feeling has done it for you是那種感覺自己讓你的臉變成這樣的。
Writers like the picture: an open-mouthed crowd, open-mouthed . People also stand open-mouthed at something huge or wonderful, so the feeling can be wonder, not only bad shock.
Writers like the picture作家喜歡這個畫面:an open-mouthed crowd, open-mouthed amazementan open-mouthed crowd(張大嘴的人群)、open-mouthed amazement(張大嘴的驚嘆)。People also stand open-mouthed at something huge or wonderful人也會因為某個巨大或美好的東西而站在那裡open-mouthed,so the feeling can be wonder, not only bad shock所以這種感覺也可以是讚嘆,不一定只是負面的震驚。
You often put it before a noun, or after stand, stare, or watch.
You often put it before a noun你常常把它放在名詞前面,or after stand, stare, or watch或是放在stand、stare、watch這些字後面。
Though actually, sleeping with your mouth open is just a mouth position — that is not what this word is usually doing. Ordinary story-like English, not a science word.
Though actually不過,sleeping with your mouth open is just a mouth position睡覺時嘴巴張開只是一種嘴巴的姿勢——that is not what this word is usually doing這個字通常不是在講這個。Ordinary story-like English, not a science word是普通、帶點故事感的英文,不是科學用字。
組成From open + mouthed. Mouthed means having the mouth in that state: wide open.
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。
open-mouthedadj
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With the mouth open.
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Gaping in surprise, wonder or astonishment.
- 3
obsoleteTalkative; eager to speak.
- Againe, what is it that makes men to be open mouthed, in decla∣ring and censuring our faults[…]?
- A politician who has been open-mouthed against extravagant expenditure is in no way called upon to object to expenditure which, even if increased, has ceased to be extravagant.
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。