英语释义

• artificially formal;

  "that artificial humility that her husband hated"

  "contrived coyness"

  "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"

  "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

片语

stilted arch上心拱

on stilts踩着高跷；夸张做作

stilted lofty夸张的

stilted d僵硬的

stilted gait且有踩高跷之步态

A stilted造作的

Stilted Fox鬃狼

stilted language夸张的文字

stilted adj文章

英汉例句

• these squabbling tolstoys and their stilted histrionics were conceited and exasperating.

  这些斗嘴的托尔斯泰们和他们夸张的表演真令人恼火。

• when they do speak, which isn’t often, it is in long stilted phrases about the wisdom of the ancients.

  他们很少说话，一开口就是有关古人智慧的冗长的陈腔滥调。

• most of my memories were of stilted meetings and uncomfortable times together.

  我大多数的回忆只是拘谨的会面和不舒服的相处。

• stilted walkways stood on baked earth and rowing boats lay stranded on the ground.

  空中的栈道架在烤干的土地上，成排的船只在此搁浅。

• avoid questions that encourage 「yes」 or 「no」 answers, because this will lead to stilted conversation.

  另外，避免在谈话中出现需要对方回答「是」或「不是」的问题，因为这可能会造成谈话紧张。

• the stilted atmosphere would strike outsiders as disconcertingly weird, but these women are oblivious to the awkwardness.

  这种拘谨的气氛对一个局外人来说很不舒服，但是这几位女士却对这种尴尬的场面毫不理会。

• having proved his point, dr wittlinger returned both stumped and stilted ants to the nest and gave them a few days to recover.

  威特林格博士证实其猜想后，又把「截肢」蚂蚁和踩高跷蚂蚁都放回蚁巢，给它们几天时间来康复。

• kocca puts the mercantilist case for the importance of power and culture in its stilted brochure: 「in the information era, it was considered as the leading world technology.

  谈及软实力以及文化的重要性，振兴院拿来了一本小册子，上面宣传说：「在信息时代，it被公认为领先世界的技术。

• people are working in the rice fields and stilted bamboo houses complete the rural scene.

  人们在稻田里劳作，和高脚竹屋一起构成了乡村的图画。

• avoid stilted or confusing language.

  避免夸张或者有歧义的语言。

• formal, stilted memos and documents are out; informal, accessible written communications are in.

  正式而且生硬的备忘录、文件已经过时了，而非正式、易理解的书面交流则开始流行。

• our first academic visit, to the history department of wuhan university, sticks in my mind for its very stilted and tense nature.

  我们学术参观的第一站是武汉大学的历史系，当时留给我的是僵硬和紧张的气氛。

• reading from a written script is guaranteed to make you look stilted and dry while putting your audience to sleep.

  直接阅读草稿的话保证能让你看起来不自然而且枯燥，而观众也会昏昏欲睡。

• there is a starched, stilted feeling in the tepid evening air as, almost strangers, they stand, “strangely together, on a new pinnacle of existence」.

  在微热的空气中有一种僵硬、凝固的感觉，他们几乎陌生人般的站着，「奇怪的一起站在一个新的生活顶点上」。

• older coastal sites elsewhere in the caribbean have evidence of similar posts, suggesting that the locals may have developed stilted architecture over the centuries to deal with the fickle elements.

  在加勒比海地区一些更为古老的地方所发掘的木桩，情况也大同小异，这就进一步说明，这种吊脚楼式的建筑风格，是千百年来应对当地反复无常天气的最佳方式。

• if you're a grammarian, consider it a verb, though saying that someone 」romanced「 someone else sounds about as stilted and antiquated as hearing that someone went 」a-wooing.

  如果你是一个语法学家，把它当成一个动词，虽然这样说某人和某人「浪漫了」，听起就像听到有人痛苦的呻吟一样不舒服。

• the device betrayed the stilted speech that is characteristic of most text-to-speech software, but nonetheless pronounced the words clearly and accurately.

  阅读器发声準确清晰，抛弃了其他阅读软件那呆板机械的读音。

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