tongue-tied
英 [tʌŋ taɪd] 美 [ˈtʌŋˌtaɪd]

adj.

舌头短的，发音不清的，结结巴巴的；语塞；心拙口笨；

英英释义

tongue-tied[ 'tʌŋtaid ]

• adj.unable to express yourself clearly or fluently

  "felt tongue-tied with embarrassment"

  同义词：incoherent

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. Prissy's mouth fell open and her tongue wagged wordlessly.
   百里茜张口结舌说不出话来了。
2. His mouth twitched, and his parched tongue seemed unable to articulate.
   他的嘴巴扭动着，干燥的舌头似乎讲不出话来了。

权威例句

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The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis.
Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education.
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"Art made tongue-tied by authority": Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic censorship