grimace
音标：
英音/ ˈɡrɪməs / 美音/ ˈɡrɪməs /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
They grimaced at the United States’ insistence on negotiating with Iran, fearing it would empower their regional nemesis.
他们对美国坚持与伊朗谈判感到苦恼，担心这会增强他们的地区宿敌的力量。
—New York Times
At one point it looked like American Dillashaw, 36, was going to tap out, before he grimaced and fought on, surviving until the end of the round.
有一次，36 岁的美国人迪拉肖 (American Dillashaw) 似乎即将出局，但他却做了个鬼脸，继续战斗，直到回合结束。
—BBC
You sensed even to his own surprise, he connected with quite a lot and, alongside an ever more grimacing Stokes, dragged England close to parity.
甚至令他自己惊讶的是，你也能感觉到，他与很多人都有联系，并且与越来越多的鬼脸斯托克斯一起，将英格兰队逼近平局。
—BBC
基本释意：
verb
contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state
扮鬼脸；作怪相；作苦相
同义词：
make a face,pull a face,face
短释义：
Picture someone wrinkling his nose, squeezing his eyes shut, and twisting his mouth and you’ll have a pretty solid mental image of a grimace. It can be a verb, as in “the class grimaced at the teacher’s suggestion of a pop quiz.” Or it words as a noun. “The class gave a grimace when the teacher suggested a pop quiz.” Its forerunner was the 17th century Spanish grimazo, meaning caricature, and grima, meaning fright.
当他邀请她参加舞会时，她脸上的鬼脸告诉他，在她开口之前，她的答案是“不”。鬼脸是一种通常表示厌恶或痛苦的面部表情，但有时也带有滑稽的夸张意味。
长释义：
Picture someone wrinkling his nose, squeezing his eyes shut, and twisting his mouth and you’ll have a pretty solid mental image of a grimace. It can be a verb, as in “the class grimaced at the teacher’s suggestion of a pop quiz.” Or it words as a noun. “The class gave a grimace when the teacher suggested a pop quiz.” Its forerunner was the 17th century Spanish grimazo, meaning caricature, and grima, meaning fright.
想象一个人皱起鼻子、闭上眼睛、扭动嘴巴，你的脑海里就会浮现出一个非常真实的鬼脸形象。它可以是一个动词，如“全班同学因老师提出的小测验而皱眉”。或者它作为名词来表达。 “当老师建议进行小测验时，全班同学都做了个鬼脸。”它的前身是17世纪的西班牙语grimazo，意思是漫画，而grima，意思是恐惧。
文学例句：
Yossarian grimaced sourly at the mere mention of Captain Black, who was already bullying the new fliers each time they stepped into his intelligence tent for maps or information.
约塞连一提到布莱克机长就愁眉不展，每当新飞行员走进他的情报帐篷索要地图或信息时，布莱克机长就已经开始欺负他们了。
—Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
He goes back over the last twenty-four hours in his head: the sleeplessness, the pills, the tense little grimace Henry does in public that Alex has always read as aloofness.
他在脑海中回想起过去二十四小时的情景：失眠、服用药物、亨利在公共场合做出的紧张的小鬼脸，而亚历克斯一直将其解读为冷漠。
—Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Ignatius asked Miss Trixie when the last grimace of her lips had stopped.
伊格内修斯问特里克西小姐，她嘴唇上的最后一丝苦笑何时停止。
—A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
词源：
grimace (n.)1650s, from French grimace (15c.) “grotesque face, ugly mug,” possibly from Frankish or another Germanic source (compare Old Saxon grima “face mask,” Old English grima “mask, helmet”), from the same root as grim (adj.). With pejorative suffix -azo (from Latin -aceus).Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
grimace (n.)1650s，来自法语 grimace (15c.)“怪诞的脸，丑陋的杯子”，可能来自法兰克语或其他日耳曼语源（比较古撒克逊语 grima“面罩”，古英语 grima“面具，头盔”），来自与 grim（形容词）同根。带贬义后缀 -azo（来自拉丁语 -aceus）。相关条目及更多
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