sphinx
/ˈsfɪŋks/ 动词 C2中文： 保持神秘沉默、饰以斯芬克斯像
- To decorate with sphinxes. · a marble sphinxed chimney-piece
- To adopt the posture of the Sphinx. · A hot lion with a very bloated stomach … will adopt either a sphinxed or a squatting posture which takes some of the weight off its belly.· Several animals maintained either a crouched … or a sphinxing posture (abdomen on the floor)
- To be inscrutable, often through silence.
- To behave in a manner characteristic of the Sphinx.
He/she/it sphinxes · 过去式 sphinxed · 过去分词 sphinxed · -ing形式 sphinxing
动词形式
- 原形
- sphinx
- He/she/it
- sphinxes
- 过去式
- sphinxed
- 过去分词
- sphinxed
- -ing形式
- sphinxing
来自图书馆
But for once his sphinx-like features had relaxed and there was a warm humanity in his eyes.
Franz did not doubt that these plans were the same concerning which the count had dropped a few words in the grotto of Monte Cristo, and while the count was speaking the young man watched him closely, hoping to read something of his purpose in his face, but his countenance was inscrutable especially when, as in the present case, it was veiled in a sphinx-like smile.
It would have required the penetration of Œdipus or the Sphinx to have divined the irony the count concealed beneath these words, apparently uttered with the greatest politeness.
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