亚洲网紅露点

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tears

/ 迟瑟蓹锄 /

plural noun

  1. the clear salty solution secreted by the lacrimal glands that lubricates and cleanses the surface of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids lachrymal
  2. a state of intense frustration (esp in the phrase bored to tears )
  3. in tears
    weeping
  4. without tears
    presented so as to be easily assimilated

    reading without tears

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

see bore to death (tears) ; burst into (tears) ; crocodile tears . Also see under tear .
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鈥淚 was moved to tears by the end, and I found it a completely unique angle on a writer I have adored for decades, and very immediate and gripping and relatable.鈥

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The woman then broke down in tears and said she was 鈥渄efinitely coming back.鈥

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Smith wiped tears from her eyes when the guilty verdict was read, while van Rhyn inexplicably broke into a smile.

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"I'm a big boy but I had a few tears in my eyes," he said.

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鈥淭hese animals are already scared, abandoned, living in horrible conditions, and they have no family to love them,鈥 Kopushyan told the committee, fighting back tears.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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