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Definition of dumbshow in English: dumbshownounˈdʌmʃəʊˈdəmˌʃoʊ mass noun1Gestures used to convey a meaning or message without speech; mime. 手势，示意动作 they demonstrated in dumbshow how the tea should be made 他们用手势演示了如何沏茶。 Example sentencesExamples - You will never, never, see someone turn right around and walk the way they were going without some accompanying dumbshow that indicates that they're not odd, they've just forgotten something.
- A scene between her and a man plays out in a dumbshow in a doorway, like a ritualistic re-enactment of an everyday scene.
- When you go to church, it's a hollow, diluted dumbshow: when I go to church, every gesture aches with meaning and immanence.
- If there's one thing that's duller than an Academy Awards ceremony, it's the red-carpet dumbshow that precedes it.
- I, naturally enough, would be present to move this dumbshow on a bit.
- Sadly, it seems that for much of our uncertain times the conversation between art and science remains a dumbshow.
- It's all some big dumbshow and we're just Zen comedians.
Synonyms dumb show, pantomime, mummery - 1.1count noun A piece of dramatic mime.
哑剧，默剧 there were gags, spoofs, and dumbshows 有插科打诨、模拟滑稽剧和哑剧。 Example sentencesExamples - He leads a little troupe of amateur actors from village to village, putting on an old-fashioned dumbshow - a type of humorous play with a stock plot.
- But it isn't exactly a hand-me-down Christmas panto dumbshow either.
- Now, one reason for not assigning names to the characters in our dumbshow above was to avoid any personal issues entering the discussion.
- The whole thing could almost be played as a dumbshow, with flourishes of grand guignol.
- Then, with not enough Gentlemen available, the revelation at the court of Sicilia was reduced to a dumbshow with voice-over (not at all a bad one, mind).
- A Modernist and postmodernist epic, in places it performs the play of sestina or sonnet in an absurd or unusual light; it recasts regular and irregular histories, offering speaking parts alongside dumbshow.
- 1.2count noun (especially in English drama of the 16th and 17th centuries) a part of a play acted in mime to summarize, supplement, or comment on the main action.
（尤指16和17世纪英国戏剧中用以对主要情节作总结、补充和评论的）哑剧表演，模拟表演 Example sentencesExamples - This second trio of children functions as a dumbshow for the verbalised ‘adult’ drama of the main story.
Definition of dumbshow in US English: dumbshow(also dumb show) nounˈdəmˌSHōˈdəmˌʃoʊ 1Gestures used to convey a meaning or message without speech; mime. 手势，示意动作 they demonstrated in dumbshow how the tea should be made 他们用手势演示了如何沏茶。 Example sentencesExamples - I, naturally enough, would be present to move this dumbshow on a bit.
- When you go to church, it's a hollow, diluted dumbshow: when I go to church, every gesture aches with meaning and immanence.
- Sadly, it seems that for much of our uncertain times the conversation between art and science remains a dumbshow.
- It's all some big dumbshow and we're just Zen comedians.
- You will never, never, see someone turn right around and walk the way they were going without some accompanying dumbshow that indicates that they're not odd, they've just forgotten something.
- A scene between her and a man plays out in a dumbshow in a doorway, like a ritualistic re-enactment of an everyday scene.
- If there's one thing that's duller than an Academy Awards ceremony, it's the red-carpet dumbshow that precedes it.
Synonyms dumb show, pantomime, mummery - 1.1 A piece of dramatic mime.
哑剧，默剧 there were gags, spoofs, and dumbshows 有插科打诨、模拟滑稽剧和哑剧。 Example sentencesExamples - Now, one reason for not assigning names to the characters in our dumbshow above was to avoid any personal issues entering the discussion.
- He leads a little troupe of amateur actors from village to village, putting on an old-fashioned dumbshow - a type of humorous play with a stock plot.
- Then, with not enough Gentlemen available, the revelation at the court of Sicilia was reduced to a dumbshow with voice-over (not at all a bad one, mind).
- The whole thing could almost be played as a dumbshow, with flourishes of grand guignol.
- But it isn't exactly a hand-me-down Christmas panto dumbshow either.
- A Modernist and postmodernist epic, in places it performs the play of sestina or sonnet in an absurd or unusual light; it recasts regular and irregular histories, offering speaking parts alongside dumbshow.
- 1.2 (especially in English drama of the 16th and 17th centuries) a part of a play acted in mime to summarize, supplement, or comment on the main action.
（尤指16和17世纪英国戏剧中用以对主要情节作总结、补充和评论的）哑剧表演，模拟表演 Example sentencesExamples - This second trio of children functions as a dumbshow for the verbalised ‘adult’ drama of the main story.
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