| 释义 |
Definition of sightless in English: sightlessadjective ˈsʌɪtləsˈsaɪtlɪs 1Unable to see; blind. 无视力的；瞎的 茫然的、什么都看不见的眼睛。 Example sentencesExamples - Wordenwood now plans to start a special foundation for the blind that will push for the use of Braille on lures to help sightless fishermen around the world.
- To convince the enemy of their menacing strength, the townspeople were ordered to bang drums, blow trumpets and jostle the sightless envoy.
- Evoking the myth of Pygmalion, a woman portrayed as a sightless sculptor in Blind Vision brings to life a Napoleonic man of clay who responds to the touch of her modeling by opening one seeing eye.
- Suddenly, Cy stopped ranting and faced Peter once more, with a faint glimmer of recognition in his sightless eyes that were now filled with tears running down his leathery cheek.
- Beneath the ancient hammer beam roof, and under the sightless gaze of stone statues of the Saxon kings, the MPs gathered on the eastern side of the south end of the hall, peers on the western side.
- In Oedipus Rex, the proud yet morally blind king plucks out his eyes, and has to spend his remaining days as a wandering, sightless beggar, guided at every painful step by his daughter, Antigone.
- Between the torch brackets, images of long-dead nobility gazed down at them with an air of sorrow, as if their sightless eyes regretted the passing of more cheerful days.
- Shah Alam II ruled well until his eighties and died as a sightless wretch dressed in rags when an army from Bengal led by General Gerald Lake stormed Delhi and Agra.
- Lee's sightless eyes followed the sound of Frank's voice.
- Moreover, both compositions boast the same cast of eccentrically posed, heavily built characters, with their unmistakably distorted faces and sightless eyes.
- Oedipus angrily dismissed the sightless old man, accusing him of conspiring with Jocasta's brother, Creon, to overthrow him.
- Jophiel cocked his head, his cornstalk hair dipping in front of his sightless eyes.
- The McDonoughs consulted with their veterinarian, who advised them that they were too busy to cope with the challenges posed by a sightless canine.
- Above the doorway, the sightless eyes of tigers stare down from their plinths; below is a signed daguerreotype of Queen Victoria.
- The girl stares at the shark, her pretty human eye focused on the eye of the sightless, eerie fish.
- Maia turned her sightless eyes towards the shopkeeper.
- Now you know what an auditory minefield we sightless people face all the time.
- Their sightless eyes, black as tar, ‘looked’ in every direction.
- He and his coworkers are tracking the progress of 20 children in India, ages 6 to 15, who grew up sightless before the surgical removal of their cataracts.
- In Barcelona, 1934, she photographs a man on a stool on a sidewalk, his white eyes sightless, the crook of his cane resting against one thigh, a beggar's bowl in his hand.
Synonyms visually impaired, unsighted, visionless, unseeing, stone blind, eyeless - 1.1literary Invisible.
〈诗/文〉看不见的
Derivativesadverbˈsʌɪtləsliˈsaɪtləsli Angela walked sightlessly past the school custodian. Example sentencesExamples - Trying her best to keep an amused grin from breaking out on her face, Emily silently watched Tommy as he moved away from her to stare sightlessly out the window at the snow-covered grounds.
- He sighed and rested the blunt end of his broadsword against his shoulder, gazing sightlessly around the battlefield.
- Sorin gazed sightlessly down at the paper in front of him.
- An officer from his section stood outside his door, staring ahead sightlessly, opening his mouth to recite a message in a monotone.
nounˈsʌɪtləsnəsˈsaɪtləsnəs His eyes shot open with wide, surprised sightlessness. Example sentencesExamples - There is more than one kind of sightlessness - there is blindness in sight.
- This tall building that was to be our billet greeted us in grey silence, its many windows peering down at us with the sightlessness of a blind man.
- We have the Shogun of the Underworld, who like Ichi is blind and has learned to compensate for his sightlessness with abilities seeming to border on the mystical.
- But the harsh reality is definable: an absence of opportunity, a sightlessness, a stifled sense of get-up-and-go, unemployed.
Definition of sightless in US English: sightlessadjectiveˈsītlisˈsaɪtlɪs 1Unable to see; blind. 无视力的；瞎的 茫然的、什么都看不见的眼睛。 Example sentencesExamples - Now you know what an auditory minefield we sightless people face all the time.
- Shah Alam II ruled well until his eighties and died as a sightless wretch dressed in rags when an army from Bengal led by General Gerald Lake stormed Delhi and Agra.
- Suddenly, Cy stopped ranting and faced Peter once more, with a faint glimmer of recognition in his sightless eyes that were now filled with tears running down his leathery cheek.
- Oedipus angrily dismissed the sightless old man, accusing him of conspiring with Jocasta's brother, Creon, to overthrow him.
- To convince the enemy of their menacing strength, the townspeople were ordered to bang drums, blow trumpets and jostle the sightless envoy.
- Between the torch brackets, images of long-dead nobility gazed down at them with an air of sorrow, as if their sightless eyes regretted the passing of more cheerful days.
- The girl stares at the shark, her pretty human eye focused on the eye of the sightless, eerie fish.
- Their sightless eyes, black as tar, ‘looked’ in every direction.
- Above the doorway, the sightless eyes of tigers stare down from their plinths; below is a signed daguerreotype of Queen Victoria.
- Lee's sightless eyes followed the sound of Frank's voice.
- Moreover, both compositions boast the same cast of eccentrically posed, heavily built characters, with their unmistakably distorted faces and sightless eyes.
- The McDonoughs consulted with their veterinarian, who advised them that they were too busy to cope with the challenges posed by a sightless canine.
- Beneath the ancient hammer beam roof, and under the sightless gaze of stone statues of the Saxon kings, the MPs gathered on the eastern side of the south end of the hall, peers on the western side.
- Maia turned her sightless eyes towards the shopkeeper.
- Wordenwood now plans to start a special foundation for the blind that will push for the use of Braille on lures to help sightless fishermen around the world.
- In Barcelona, 1934, she photographs a man on a stool on a sidewalk, his white eyes sightless, the crook of his cane resting against one thigh, a beggar's bowl in his hand.
- Jophiel cocked his head, his cornstalk hair dipping in front of his sightless eyes.
- Evoking the myth of Pygmalion, a woman portrayed as a sightless sculptor in Blind Vision brings to life a Napoleonic man of clay who responds to the touch of her modeling by opening one seeing eye.
- He and his coworkers are tracking the progress of 20 children in India, ages 6 to 15, who grew up sightless before the surgical removal of their cataracts.
- In Oedipus Rex, the proud yet morally blind king plucks out his eyes, and has to spend his remaining days as a wandering, sightless beggar, guided at every painful step by his daughter, Antigone.
Synonyms visually impaired, unsighted, visionless, unseeing, stone blind, eyeless - 1.1literary Invisible.
〈诗/文〉看不见的
|