Rictus

rictus



Y

(鳥類的) 嘴裂

(人在疼痛等時的) 齜牙咧嘴



D



–noun 

1. the gape (目瞪口呆,裂開) of the mouth of a bird.

2. the gaping or opening of the mouth. 





　

That exhausted camera supplies the movie's best moment. The hit man (Leon Lai) has just wiped out [a] roomful of gamblers. He runs into the street and [boards] a commuter train. The man behind him is--good God!--a junior high school classmate, now an insurance salesman. 



The classmate chatters about insurance policies and his own impending marriage, handing the killer an invitation ("fill in your name''). The camera framing holds the killer in left foreground, his face frozen into a rictus of unease and dislike, his eyes turned away, as the classmate rattles on and on.





abyss

fall into the [abyss], [abyss] of shame

abysm (figurative)

abysmal

[abysmal] ignorance, her concentration was [abysmal] 

abysmal[ly] gloomy

the [abyssal] zone (oceanography)

orifice 

crevice 

tiny crevices between our [teeth]

crevasses 

yawning crevasses in our knowledge of the [universe]

fissure

The roots of the tree loosened their holds in the fissures of the [rock].



demarcation

Unlike many child actors who’ve made the successful [transition] to grown-up roles, DiCaprio hasn’t evolved in predictable ways—there are no clear [lines] of demarcation.

Vicinity