- [transitive, intransitive] to act, tell a story, etc. by moving your body and face but without speaking表演哑剧;用哑剧动作表现
- mime (something) Each player has to mime the title of a movie, play or book.每一名参加者都得用哑剧动作表现出一部电影、戏剧或一本书的标题。
- mime doing something He mimed climbing a mountain.他用哑剧形式表示爬山。
- [intransitive, transitive] mime (to something) | mime (something) to pretend to sing a song that is actually being sung by somebody else on a recording(按照播放录音等)模拟歌唱;假唱
- The band was miming to a backing track.乐队正在模仿伴唱曲目。
Word Originearly 17th cent. (also in the sense ‘mimic or jester’): from Latin mimus, from Greek mimos.