posturing
英 [ˈpɒstʃərɪŋ]
美 [ˈpɑːstʃərɪŋ]
n. 做作的举止; 忸怩作态; 虚伪表现
v. 故作姿态; 装样子
posture的现在分词
复数:posturings 现在分词:posturing
BNC.21892 / COCA.19999
牛津词典
noun
- 做作的举止;忸怩作态;虚伪表现
behaviour that is not natural or sincere but is intended to attract attention or to have a particular effect
柯林斯词典
- N-VAR (坐、立的)姿势,姿态
Yourpostureis the position in which you stand or sit.- You can make your stomach look flatter instantly by improving your posture...
通过采取更好的坐姿,你的腹部马上就会看起来平坦一些。 - Exercise, fresh air, and good posture are all helpful...
锻炼、新鲜空气和好的坐立姿势都很有益。 - Sit in a relaxed upright posture.
保持放松、直立的坐姿。
- You can make your stomach look flatter instantly by improving your posture...
- N-COUNT 态度;立场
Apostureis an attitude that you have towards something.- The military machine is ready to change its defensive posture to one prepared for action...
军方随时准备由防御立场转向备战立场。 - None of the banks changed their posture on the deal as a result of the inquiry.
没有一家银行因为这次调查而对该交易改变立场。
- The military machine is ready to change its defensive posture to one prepared for action...
- VERB 故作姿态;装腔作势;装模作样
You can say that someoneis posturingwhen you disapprove of their behaviour because you think they are trying to give a particular impression in order to deceive people.- She says the President may just be posturing.
她说总统也许只是在做样子而已。
- She says the President may just be posturing.
英英释义
noun
- adopting a vain conceited posture
双语例句
- The posturing over the Deloitte-Longtop affair may make a resolution more difficult.
在德勤-东南融通的事件中故作姿态可能使问题的解决更困难。 - I remind myself that the war in Iraq started with bellicose posturing and photographs.
我提醒自己,伊拉克战争始于好斗的姿态和照片。 - Courtship and reproduction in seahorses is elaborate, involving changing colour and much posturing.
海马中的繁殖和求偶是精心准备的,包括改变颜色和摆出相当多的姿势。 - Judging by the political posturing and partisan rhetoric being thrown around Capitol Hill currently, however, we expect this round of piling debt upon debt to be anything but commonplace – especially with characters like Boehner and Reid leading the charge.
但从目前国会山反映出来的政治姿态和党派之争来看,我们预计这一次可能需要费些周折&特别是在博纳、瑞德等人物的领导下。 - If one party sweeps the polls this November, gridlock might end: today's rhetorical posturing might turn into a consensus for action.
如果今年11月某个党派在选举中大获全胜,这种僵局可能就会打破:今天的口头上摆姿态,届时可能就会变为行动的共识。 - With the stakes so high we simply cannot afford the same old gridlock and partisan posturing in Washington.
因为风险很高,所以我们根本不能承受华盛顿特区过去的那些僵局和党派之争。 - Just a bit of pie-in-the-sky posturing of the sort that often occurs in high-altitude Davos?
这不过是略微展现了一下“高屋建瓴”的达沃斯论坛时常会做出的空中画饼姿态? - Some sceptics dismiss the various proposals as political posturing.
一些怀疑论者认为,这些各式各样的提案只不过是政治姿态。 - Military planning drove decisions; bluster and posturing drove diplomacy.
决定受军事策划的驱使;外交受恐吓和故作姿态的驱使。 - There is an element of politics to some of this public posturing.
中国官员的这些公开表态中,有些存在着政治方面的考虑。