dumbstruck

英

美 [ˈdʌmˌstrʌk]

adj.  吓呆的;惊得目瞪口呆的

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柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 吓呆的;惊得目瞪口呆的
  If you aredumbstruck, you are so shocked or surprised that you cannot speak.
  1. We were dumbstruck. We just couldn't believe our eyes when she appeared.
     我们惊呆了。她出现时我们简直不敢相信自己的眼睛。

英英释义

adj

• as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise
  1. a circle of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accident
  2. the flabbergasted aldermen were speechless
  3. was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion
  Synonym:dumbfoundeddumfoundedflabbergastedstupefiedthunderstruckdumbstricken

双语例句

• Amazed at what the big turtle had said, the frog was dumbstruck.
  听了大鳖的这一番话，青蛙非常吃惊，呆在那里，无话可说了。
• We were dumbstruck. We just couldn't believe our eyes when she appeared.
  我们惊呆了。她出现时我们简直不敢相信自己的眼睛。
• "At the end of the interview, while I stood there dumbstruck, went through my purse, took out a brush, brushed his hair, and left."
  “面试完毕时，他翻开我的手袋、拿出我的梳子、用它来梳他的头、然后离去。我在一边看得目瞪口呆。”
• A few months ago, I was dumbstruck when a deity in the UK games business suggested that the future of computer gaming was community, not content.
  几个月前我因为英国游戏产业中的上帝建议电脑游戏的未来是社群而非内容，而感到震惊。
• The audience was dumbstruck.
  现场观众大为震惊。
• Researchers call this the awestruck effect, but it may just as easily be described as the dumbstruck effect, says The Atlantic article.
  据《大西洋月刊》报道，研究人员将其称为敬畏效应，但它也很容易被描述成惊吓效应。