being lost for words
ぜっくぜく
Noun, Participle, Verb
1.
being lost for words, becoming speechless
2.
jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
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彼の感動的なスピーチに、聴衆は絶句し、涙を流した。
The audience was speechless and shed tears at his moving speech.
中国の古典詩には、五言絶句や七言絶句がある。
In classical Chinese poetry, there are five-character jueju and seven-character jueju.
彼女のあまりにも率直な意見に、誰もが絶句せざるを得なかった。
Everyone had no choice but to be lost for words at her overly frank opinion.
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