实用英语短语：不露声色这么表达

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　今日短语


　　如果你的反应被形容为 without batting an eye - or eyelid 不眨眼，意思就是你不露声色，让人看不出事情对你的情绪是否有任何影响。


　　例句


　　When I told her I didn’t want to go out with her any more she didn’t even bat an eyelid. She just looked at me and said, 'Goodbye then'.


　　When he was sentenced to 20 years in prison he didn’t bat an eye.


　　请注意


　　当什么事情在一瞬间发生，这就可以被形容为“in the blink of an eye 一眨眼的时间”。


　　例句


　　I offered the kids the biscuits and in a blink of an eye they were all gone! The biscuits, not the kids!


　　Following his decision to lie to the police officer, in the blink of an eye, his career was finished.


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