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Showing no look on your face — no smile, no , nothing that would let another person read what you feel.
Showing no look on your face臉上不露出任何表情 — no smile, no frown不笑、不皺眉,nothing that would let another person read what you feel沒有任何會讓別人看出你感受的東西。
It comes from the card game poker. If you look pleased with a good hand, the others may stop betting; if you look disappointed with a poor hand, they may see that you are only pretending. So a player learns to keep a still face.
It comes from the card game poker它來自紙牌遊戲poker。If you look pleased with a good hand如果你拿到好牌卻露出開心的表情,the others may stop betting其他人可能就不再下注了;if you look disappointed with a poor hand如果你拿到爛牌卻露出失望的表情,they may see that you are only pretending他們可能會看穿你只是在假裝。So a player learns to keep a still face所以玩家會學著讓臉保持不動。
People now use the word far outside cards: a poker-faced teacher, a poker-faced answer when someone asks how the interview went. It is informal but widely understood, a little colourful rather than official.
People now use the word far outside cards人們現在用這個字,用到遠遠超過牌桌之外:a poker-faced teacher一臉撲克臉的老師,a poker-faced answer when someone asks how the interview went有人問面試怎麼樣時,一個面無表情的回答。It is informal but widely understood它是口語用法,但大家都聽得懂,a little colourful rather than official比較生動而不是正式用語。
In Taiwan you may already know the loan 撲克臉 — that is the same idea.
In Taiwan在台灣,you may already know the loan 撲克臉你可能已經知道「撲克臉」這個外來說法 — that is the same idea就是同一個概念。
組成From poker (the card game) + faced. You need that still face in poker so other players cannot read your hand.
同家族的字
- pokerthe card game this comes from
- poker facethe noun: a face that shows nothing
原始詞典資料1 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。
poker-facedadj
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Wearing a poker face: studiously neutral in facial expression; giving nothing away.
- John, in his most poker-faced manner, continued to explain the rules.
- Harold Lloyd had had one or two minor comic brushes with railway trains, but the first man to produce real comedy from locomotives was the great poker-faced clown, Buster Keaton.
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。