Posture
['pɒstʃə] or ['pɑstʃɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude.
(n.) Place; position; situation.
(n.) State or condition, whether of external circumstances, or of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of defense; the posture of affairs.
(v. t.) To place in a particular position or attitude; to dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to posture one's self; to posture a model.
(v. i.) To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.
(v. i.) Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.
錄入:弗农
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Position, ATTITUDE, POSE.[2]. State, condition, situation, phase.
杰弗里整理
同義詞及反義詞:
[See SITUATION]
艾琳校對
解釋/意思:
n. the placing or position of the body esp. of the parts of it with reference to each other: attitude: state or condition: disposition of mind.—v.t. to place in a particular manner.—v.i. to assume an affected manner.—ns. Pos′ture-mā′ker Pos′ture-mas′ter one who teaches or practises artificial postures of the body: an acrobat; Pos′turer Pos′turist an acrobat.
艾达校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I then put myself in the most supplicating posture, and spoke in the humblest accent, but received no answer. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Fagin made no answer, but bending over the sleeper again, hauled him into a sitting posture. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The man had moved into a sitting posture. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He had been placed in a sleeping posture, head on the right fore-arm. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I didn't get 'em by posture-making, but by being banged about. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- In the third division he is shown still higher in the air; and in the fourth he is mounted above the shoulders of pantaloon, who retains the same posture as at first. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- One will escape from so much, that is the chief thing, escape so much hideous boring repetition of vulgar actions, vulgar phrases, vulgar postures. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Don't go on posturing like a Deaf and Dumb School,' said the ingenious Fledgeby, 'but express yourself like a Christian--or as nearly as you can. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Antony gave way to much mournful posturing, varied by love scenes, during this last stage of his little drama. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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