tongue-tied

Word family adjectivetonguedtonguelesstongueliketongue-in-cheektongue-tiednountonguelettonguestertonguingtongue

ˈtongue-tied adjectiveadj

EMBARRASSEDunable to talk in a relaxed way because you feel nervous or embarrassed 〔因感到紧张或难堪等而〕张口结舌的，说不出话的

When adults spoke to her, she became tongue-tied and shy.

大人和她讲话时她会很害羞，说不出话来。

Examples from the Corpus

tongue-tied• Whatever he might fling at her this time, she would not sit bowed and tongue-tied.• I had tried since, alone and with others, and I'd been tongue-tied.• She reeled off my 752 failings, whereas I was tongue-tied.• The boy was quieter than his sister, and gave tongue-tied answers.• Both of them were easy victims: where she was slow and tongue-tied, he was short and physically weedy.• He often sounds tongue-tied in interviews.• Outside the courtroom, Kevin is a tongue-tied lunkhead.• Nervousness affects people in different ways. While some people become tongue-tied, others cannot stop talking.• She went to Druid's Bottom but she felt tongue-tied there.• Benny stumbled from time to time, and became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome boy sitting beside them.• She became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome man sitting beside her.

单词	tongue-tied
释义	tongue-tied Word family adjectivetonguedtonguelesstongueliketongue-in-cheektongue-tiednountonguelettonguestertonguingtongue ˈtongue-tied adjectiveadj EMBARRASSEDunable to talk in a relaxed way because you feel nervous or embarrassed 〔因感到紧张或难堪等而〕张口结舌的，说不出话的 When adults spoke to her, she became tongue-tied and shy. 大人和她讲话时她会很害羞，说不出话来。 Examples from the Corpus tongue-tied• Whatever he might fling at her this time, she would not sit bowed and tongue-tied.• I had tried since, alone and with others, and I'd been tongue-tied.• She reeled off my 752 failings, whereas I was tongue-tied.• The boy was quieter than his sister, and gave tongue-tied answers.• Both of them were easy victims: where she was slow and tongue-tied, he was short and physically weedy.• He often sounds tongue-tied in interviews.• Outside the courtroom, Kevin is a tongue-tied lunkhead.• Nervousness affects people in different ways. While some people become tongue-tied, others cannot stop talking.• She went to Druid's Bottom but she felt tongue-tied there.• Benny stumbled from time to time, and became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome boy sitting beside them.• She became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome man sitting beside her.
随便看	nothing doing nothing if not nothing if not something nothing if not sth nothing less than nothing less than something nothing less than sth nothing like nothingness nothingness nothingnesses nothing/no one can touch somebody/something nothing of the kind nothing of the sort nothing of the sort/kind nothing on earth nothings nothing short of nothing short of something nothing short of sth nothingss nothing succeeds like success nothing to it nothing to sneeze at nothing-to-sneeze-at