Posture

(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.

录入:弗农

• I then put myself in the most supplicating posture, and spoke in the humblest accent, but received no answer. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Fagin made no answer, but bending over the sleeper again, hauled him into a sitting posture. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The man had moved into a sitting posture. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He had been placed in a sleeping posture, head on the right fore-arm. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I didn't get 'em by posture-making, but by being banged about. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• 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·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• One will escape from so much, that is the chief thing, escape so much hideous boring repetition of vulgar actions, vulgar phrases, vulgar postures. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Antony gave way to much mournful posturing, varied by love scenes, during this last stage of his little drama. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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