GRE重點(diǎn)詞匯積累：impassive

　　impassive: 冷淡的; revealing no emotion; expressionless

　　1) not subject to pain, without feeling or emotion

　　2) showing no emotion

　　Synonyms: apathetic, dispassionate, stoic, unmoved

　　impassive <> perturbation, perfervid, emotional, overwrought, excited

　　impassive : perturb

　　deadpan : impassive

　　Even when his father died he gave an impassive response and walked out tearless.

　　Her expected announcement was met by an impassive facial expression.

　　Though he seemed impassive at the collapse of his company, his wife could see that he was in despair.

　　【考法1】adj. 冷漠的，無感情的： giving no sign of feeling or emotion

　　【例】 She remained impassive as the officers informed her of her son's death. 她面不改色地聽著警官宣讀她 兒子的死訊

　　【近】 affectless, apathetic, cold-blooded, deadpan, emotionless, numb, phlegmatic, stoic, undemonstrative

　　【反】 demonstrative, emotional, fervent, fervid, impassioned, passionate, vehement 充滿感情的