a performance using gestures and body movements without words
Verb:
act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only;
\\\"The acting students mimed eating an apple\\\"
造句
用作名詞(n.)
The actor is skilled in pantomime. 這個演員擅長表演啞劇。
The audience roared with laughter at the pantomime. 觀眾被這啞劇逗得哈哈大笑。
The children were very excited by the pantomime. 孩子們看了童話劇非常興奮。
Some tourists make themselves understood abroad by pantomime. 一些游客在國外通常用手勢來讓別人明白自己的意思。
用作動詞(v.)
Apes are routinely beaten into submission and forced to pantomime human behaviors that are foreign and confusing. 猿類被屈打得順從，被迫模仿對于它們來說是莫名其妙，難以理解的人類行為舉止。
常用短語
pantomime dame
啞婦
組詞
The annual pantomime..opens on boxing day.
出自：Times Literary Supplement
Last Christmas he was back on stage in pantomime in Manchester.