gesturing

英 [ˈdʒestʃərɪŋ]

美 [ˈdʒestʃərɪŋ]

v.  做手势; 用手势表示; 用动作示意
gesture的现在分词

COCA.42140

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 手势；姿势；示意动作
  Agestureis a movement that you make with a part of your body, especially your hands, to express emotion or information.
  1. Sarah made a menacing gesture with her fist...
     萨拉用拳头做了一个威胁性的动作。
  2. He throws his hands open in a gesture which clearly indicates his relief.
     他摊开双手，明确表示他已如释重负。
• N-COUNT （表明态度或意图的）姿态，表示
  Agestureis something that you say or do in order to express your attitude or intentions, often something that you know will not have much effect.
  1. He questioned the government's commitment to peace and called on it to make a gesture of good will...
     他对政府致力和平的承诺提出质疑，并呼吁政府做出友好的表示。
  2. There's not greater gesture of love than having someone's name tattooed on your body...
     没有比将某人姓名文到身上更绝妙的示爱方式了。
  3. As a gesture to security, cars were fitted with special locks.
     出于安全上的考虑，这些汽车装上了专用锁。
• VERB 打手势；用手势表示；用动作示意
  If yougesture, you use movements of your hands or head in order to tell someone something or draw their attention to something.
  1. I gestured towards the boathouse, and he looked inside...
     我朝船库方向示意，他便往里面瞧了瞧。
  2. He gestures, gesticulates, and moves with the grace of a dancer.
     他举手投足之间流露出舞者的优雅。

双语例句

• No quick, small figure, no gesturing hands. I had sensed her in the air, and into the air she had evaporated.
  我已经在空气中感觉到她的存在，而她却像人间蒸发一样，消失得无影无踪。
• Its not just the individual gestures that can cause miscommunication, but the rate of gesturing.
  不仅是这些单个的手势可以造成错误传达，还有手势的使用程度。
• In parts of East Asia, gesturing is considered boorish behaviour, and would be rude in a professional setting.
  在有些东亚地区，使用手势被认为是粗鲁的行为，而且在职业场合中会很无礼。
• They would think I was crazy, he says, gesturing with his bony hands.
  他们可能觉得我疯了，他一边说一边用他那瘦骨嶙峋的双手比划着。
• We assume that our way of talking and gesturing is "natural" and that those who do things differently are somehow playing with nature.
  我们总以为，我们谈话和打手势的方式是“自然的”，而觉得那些行为方式与我们不同的人是有点态度草率。
• The self-promoters those who spoke quickly and at length and used such ingratiation tactics as smiling, gesturing and complimenting others received far more positive evaluations than equally qualified applicants who used tactical modesty, the researchers reported.
  研究人员报告说，那些自我推销者语速快、谈话内容详细，运用微笑、打手势和赞美他人等逢迎战术，他们比那些资质相当、采用谦虚战略的求职者得到的正面评价要多得多。
• "That would be us, 1-2-3," one girl answers, gesturing at the third girl who is still attending the front desk.
  “我们就是：1-2-3，”和我们站在一起的一个小妹说，说3的时候指向一个还在前台的女孩。
• Over the years, more nonsense has been written about gesturing than about any other aspect of speech delivery.
  多年以来，人们写的关于打手势的废话，比演讲的任何其它方面的都要多。
• That must have been what Kyle was gesturing about, John thought to himself.
  这一定就是刚才凯尔那个手势的意思，约翰心想。
• As you walked into church, you would notice some impressively robed people singing, speaking and gesturing at the far end, either in view of the congregation or else in a partially enclosed space from which they periodically emerged.
  走进教堂，就能看到一些身着长袍的人，非常显眼，在教堂的另一头唱歌、说话、打手势；时而在教堂会众的眼皮底下，时而在一个被围住了一块的地方汇聚。