grimace
音標(biāo)：
英音/ ?ɡr?m?s / 美音/ ?ɡr?m?s /

聽聽基本釋意：

英語學(xué)習(xí)：https://engapi.com/article/5071

外刊例句：
They grimaced at the United States’ insistence on negotiating with Iran, fearing it would empower their regional nemesis.
他們對美國堅持與伊朗談判感到苦惱，擔(dān)心這會增強他們的地區(qū)宿敵的力量。
—New York Times

At one point it looked like American Dillashaw, 36, was going to tap out, before he grimaced and fought on, surviving until the end of the round.
有一次，36 歲的美國人迪拉肖 (American Dillashaw) 似乎即將出局，但他卻做了個鬼臉，繼續(xù)戰(zhàn)斗，直到回合結(jié)束。
—BBC

You sensed even to his own surprise, he connected with quite a lot and, alongside an ever more grimacing Stokes, dragged England close to parity.
甚至令他自己驚訝的是，你也能感覺到，他與很多人都有聯(lián)系，并且與越來越多的鬼臉?biāo)雇锌怂挂黄?，將英格蘭隊逼近平局。
—BBC

基本釋意：
verb
contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state
扮鬼臉；作怪相；作苦相

同義詞：
make a face,pull a face,face

短釋義：
Picture someone wrinkling his nose, squeezing his eyes shut, and twisting his mouth and you’ll have a pretty solid mental image of a grimace. It can be a verb, as in “the class grimaced at the teacher’s suggestion of a pop quiz.” Or it words as a noun. “The class gave a grimace when the teacher suggested a pop quiz.” Its forerunner was the 17th century Spanish grimazo, meaning caricature, and grima, meaning fright.
當(dāng)他邀請她參加舞會時，她臉上的鬼臉告訴他，在她開口之前，她的答案是“不”。鬼臉是一種通常表示厭惡或痛苦的面部表情，但有時也帶有滑稽的夸張意味。

長釋義：
Picture someone wrinkling his nose, squeezing his eyes shut, and twisting his mouth and you’ll have a pretty solid mental image of a grimace. It can be a verb, as in “the class grimaced at the teacher’s suggestion of a pop quiz.” Or it words as a noun. “The class gave a grimace when the teacher suggested a pop quiz.” Its forerunner was the 17th century Spanish grimazo, meaning caricature, and grima, meaning fright.
想象一個人皺起鼻子、閉上眼睛、扭動嘴巴，你的腦海里就會浮現(xiàn)出一個非常真實的鬼臉形象。它可以是一個動詞，如“全班同學(xué)因老師提出的小測驗而皺眉”?；蛘咚鳛槊~來表達。 “當(dāng)老師建議進行小測驗時，全班同學(xué)都做了個鬼臉?！彼那吧硎?7世紀(jì)的西班牙語grimazo，意思是漫畫，而grima，意思是恐懼。

文學(xué)例句：
Yossarian grimaced sourly at the mere mention of Captain Black, who was already bullying the new fliers each time they stepped into his intelligence tent for maps or information.
約塞連一提到布萊克機長就愁眉不展，每當(dāng)新飛行員走進他的情報帳篷索要地圖或信息時，布萊克機長就已經(jīng)開始欺負他們了。
—Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

He goes back over the last twenty-four hours in his head: the sleeplessness, the pills, the tense little grimace Henry does in public that Alex has always read as aloofness.
他在腦海中回想起過去二十四小時的情景：失眠、服用藥物、亨利在公共場合做出的緊張的小鬼臉，而亞歷克斯一直將其解讀為冷漠。
—Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Ignatius asked Miss Trixie when the last grimace of her lips had stopped.
伊格內(nèi)修斯問特里克西小姐，她嘴唇上的最后一絲苦笑何時停止。
—A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

詞源：
grimace?(n.)1650s, from French grimace (15c.) “grotesque face, ugly mug,” possibly from Frankish or another Germanic source (compare Old Saxon grima “face mask,” Old English grima “mask, helmet”), from the same root as grim (adj.). With pejorative suffix -azo (from Latin -aceus).Related entries & more

下面是詞源的翻譯（機器翻譯比較難翻，參考著看）
grimace (n.)1650s，來自法語 grimace (15c.)“怪誕的臉，丑陋的杯子”，可能來自法蘭克語或其他日耳曼語源（比較古撒克遜語 grima“面罩”，古英語 grima“面具，頭盔”），來自與 grim（形容詞）同根。帶貶義后綴 -azo（來自拉丁語 -aceus）。相關(guān)條目及更多