a performance using gestures and body movements without words
Verb:
act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only;
"The acting students mimed eating an apple"
双语例句
用作名词 (n.)
The actor is skilled in pantomime. 这个演员擅长表演哑剧。
The audience roared with laughter at the pantomime. 观众被这哑剧逗得哈哈大笑。
The children were very excited by the pantomime. 孩子们看了童话剧非常兴奋。
Some tourists make themselves understood abroad by pantomime. 一些游客在国外通常用手势来让别人明白自己的意思。
用作动词 (v.)
Apes are routinely beaten into submission and forced to pantomime human behaviors that are foreign and confusing. 猿类被屈打得顺从，被迫模仿对于它们来说是莫名其妙，难以理解的人类行为举止。
