单词 | claustrophobic |
释义 | claustrophobic (klɔːstrəfoʊbɪk ) 1. adjective You describe a place or situation as claustrophobic when it makes you feel uncomfortable and unhappy because you are enclosed or restricted. They lived in an unhealthily claustrophobic atmosphere. The house felt too claustrophobic. 2. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] If you feel claustrophobic, you feel very uncomfortable or anxious when you are in a small, crowded, or enclosed place. The churning, pressing crowds made her feel claustrophobic. Collocations: claustrophobic atmosphere But the deliberately claustrophobic atmosphere works well, making it fairly compelling viewing. The Sun They had put 14 housemates into the house this year to create a claustrophobic atmosphere and cause arguments. The Sun It's an unsettling, mysterious horror mystery, the claustrophobic atmosphere and sense of dread only increased by the forbidding landscape. Times, Sunday Times Might such a claustrophobic atmosphere go some way towards explaining that record of failure in major finals? Times, Sunday Times The lyrics follow the claustrophobic atmosphere of the painting, and each of the scenes are described. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The salon's neutral décor gave an illusion of stylishness, but in fact only added to the claustrophobic feeling of being in near darkness. Times, Sunday Times While the scenes are beautifully framed and lit, and it's a powerful treatment for the soaring ballads, after a while there's a certain monotony-and a bit of a claustrophobic feeling. Christianity Today The dense composition creates a claustrophobic feeling while the forms remain difficult to differentiate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Despite their proximity in the claustrophobic space, the characters are isolated, drained, silent, less alive than the domestic still life that surrounds them. The Times Literary Supplement They are given nine lives, but with every game they complete the atmosphere inside the claustrophobic space becomes increasingly tense. The Sun Claustrophobic spaces, throbbing anxiety, relentless unhappiness — this feels like home territory. Times, Sunday Times The murky, perspectiveless limbo, which serves as the backdrop to many of his finest portraits, gives a sense of the echoing, claustrophobic spaces in which he worked. Times, Sunday Times Here, mirrored panels painted with impressionistic shrubbery moved forwards and backwards, creating claustrophobic spaces and acting areas for this alfresco scene and distracting from the complex action. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 幽闭恐怖症的 Japanese: 閉所恐怖症の |
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