posture

英 ['pɒstʃə(r)] 美 ['pɑːstʃər]

• n. 姿势；态度；情形
• v. 作 ... 姿势；摆架子

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]姿势，姿态

   attitude or position of the body

2. [C]看法;态度

   way of looking at sth;attitude

v. (动词)

1. vi. 作出某种姿势

   put in a certain position

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 姿势，姿态
2. 情形，形势，态势
3. 态度，立场，看法
4. 心情，心境
5. 模特儿摆的姿势
6. 装腔作势的样子
7. 精神准备
8. 相貌
9. 体形
10. 处理方式

v. 动词

1. （使）摆出（特定）姿势，使作出某种姿态，作…的姿势
2. 装模作样，装样子 ，故作姿态，故弄玄虚，装腔作势
3. 摆姿势，作姿势，做姿势
4. 取某种姿势
5. 摆架子

英英释义

Noun:

1. the arrangement of the body and its limbs;

   "he assumed an attitude of surrender"
   

2. characteristic way of bearing one's body;

   "stood with good posture"
   

3. a rationalized mental attitude

4. capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war;

   "we faced an army of great strength"
   "politicians have neglected our military posture"
   

Verb:

1. behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others;

   "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"
   "She postured and made a total fool of herself"
   

2. assume a posture as for artistic purposes;

   "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Only humans have a natural upright posture.
   只有人类才有自然直立的姿势。
2. The artist asked his model to take a reclining posture.
   画家要求模特取斜倚着的姿势。
3. She has very good posture.
   她举止很优雅。
4. The government adopted an uncompromising posture on the issue of independence.
   政府在独立的问题上采取了毫不妥协的态度。

用作动词 (v.)

1. The war-monger would sometimes posture for peace
   战争贩子有时也会装出主张和平的姿态。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. He bid us keep in a ready posture.
   他嘱咐我们做好准备。
2. The government adopted an uncompromising posture on the issue of independence.
   政府在独立这一问题上采取了毫不妥协的态度。

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. The actress postured before the mirror.
   女演员在镜子前摆姿势。

经典引文

• He jerked himself up into a sitting posture.

  出自： V. Woolf

• As he stands, his posture is hunched and awkward.

  出自： D. Leavitt

• Laughing..as they postured and anticked on the mole-hills.

  出自： C. Kingsley

• Statues posture in their scalloped recesses.

  出自： P. L. Fermor

词汇搭配

• readiness posture 战备状态
• defence posture 防御态势
• forced posture 强迫体位
• sitting posture 坐姿
• posture sense 姿势觉
• dynamic posture 动态姿势[体位]...
• posture expression 身段表情
• upright posture 直立姿势
• correct posture 正确体位
• erect posture 直立姿势
• static posture 静态姿势
• faulty posture 不良姿势

词义辨析

n. (名词)

posture, attitude, policy, position, stand

• 这五个词的共同意思是“立场”“态度”。其区别在于:stand用于表明某人的观点、立场时常用个人感情色彩,虽然它并不排除这种感情是建立在理智或理性基础之上的; attitude表示个人或团体的感情色彩,而这种感情往往是不明说的或不明确的; policy指某人估计其要求、利益、目标或原则之后而制定的一种明确的信念结构形式,也可指行为的一般准则; position则指较冷静和克制的态度,经常用于指人在经过长时间的深思熟虑之后作出的决定; posture指确切的军事部署。例如:
• In the temperance question,Mr. Dent takes his stand on total abstinence.在戒酒问题上,登特先生是采取滴酒不沾的立场的。
• His attitude towards her amounted to loathing.他对她的态度简直就是厌恶。
• My position on civil liberties is well known.我对人权自由的立场是众所周知的。
• It's a bad policy to lend money to unemployed friends.把钱借给失业的朋友是不太聪明的做法。
• The government adopted an uncompromising posture on the issue of independence.政府在独立这一问题上采取了毫不妥协的态度。

posture, attitude, pose

• 这组词的共同含义是指身体做出的姿势或身体各部分彼此相关的排列姿态。其区别是：
• attitude常指因特殊心情造成的下意识或故意做出的姿态；posture多指习惯性的或特有的姿势，有时含体态或举止之意，posture在有其他词限制、修饰或有上下文表明目的或意图时也可指根据心情或时间的需要而确定的姿势；pose主要指为达到某种效果有意识做出的姿势，如果是无意识的，则能给观看的人以深刻印象或做作感。

近反义词

【近义词】

• carriage 四轮马车
• position 位置
• bearing 轴承
• pose 摆姿势
• attitude 态度
• stance 立场
• deportment 风度
• mien 风采
• affectation 假装
• play 玩
• poise 平衡
• acting 演戏
• perspective 远景
• feeling 感觉
• lip service 说得好听的话...
• lip 嘴唇
• service 服务
• model 模范
• military capability 军事能力
• military posture 军事态势
• strength 力气
• sit 坐
• military strength 军事力量