stiff upper lip

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌstɪf ˌʌp.ə ˈlɪp]
• 美式音标 [ˌstɪf ˌʌp.ɚ ˈlɪp]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• 堅定沉著；不露感情

同根派生

英汉例句

雙語例句

• The culture we live in –for example the fabled British stiff upper lip
  我們生活中的文化，例如虛搆英國人的堅定沉著！
• For hundreds of years the French have ridiculed our food, scoffed at our culture and mocked our stiff upper lip.
  幾百年來，法國人一直在嘲笑英國人，嘲笑他們的飲食、他們的文化、還有他們僵硬的上嘴脣。
• “It is, ” he replied, “’O Lord, give me a stiff upper lip.’”
  “是這樣的，”他說，“哦，主啊，賜我一片堅硬的上嘴脣吧。”

原聲例句

• I don't know, a very English, sort of stiff upper lip kind of man.
  我不知道，一個英國式的，堅定沉穩的男人。
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權威例句

• Not everyone is lucky enough to have good training, a stiff upper lip and strong friendships.
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• According to this narrative, the perpetrators are un-educated, unenculturated immigrant heathens unschooled in English protesting etiquette, let alone its signature stiff upper lip.
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词组短语

短語

• Stiff Upper Lip Live 堅定不移現場縯唱會;堅定不移現場縯唱會專輯
• a stiff upper lip 堅定不移
• keea stiff upper lip 意志堅定
• keeping a stiff upper lip 人與人或人與單位之間的矛盾懸而未決
• kept a stiff upper lip 頑強不屈

英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• Someone who has a stiff upper lip does not show their feelings when they are upset