| 词汇 | poised |
| 释义 | poised adjective uk /pɔɪzd/ us /pɔɪzd/ poisedadjective (WAITING)[ after verb ] If an object or a part of your body is poised, it is completely still but ready to move at any moment: 平衡的；作好准备的，摆好姿势的 My pencil was poised over the page, ready to take down her words.我的铅笔对准了本子，随时准备记下她的话。 [ after verb ] ready to do a particular thing at any moment: 准备就绪的 [ + to infinitive ]The company is poised to launch its new advertising campaign.公司随时准备发起新的广告攻势。 The military forces are poised for attack.军队准备随时发起进攻。 She watched a little white bird, poised on a branch and fluttering its wings. He sat with his pencil poised, ready to take notes.他坐着，手里拿着铅笔准备记笔记。 Her finger was poised on the camera as she waited for them to take their positions. The two guards stood poised with their shields and swords raised. They stood their waiting, poised for action. Ready and willing agreeable amenable at someone's beck and callidiom at your commandidiom be chafing at the bitidiom beck command concert pitch disposed eager eagerly fain finger keen pleased prepared raring readily readiness ripe poisedadjective (CONTROLLED)approving showing very calm and controlled behaviour沉着的，泰然自若的 Calm and relaxed (as) cool as a cucumberidiom at (your) leisureidiom be at peace with the worldidiom biddable calmly easy come, easy goidiom easy-going equilibrium fluidly free-flowing non-hysterical peaceably peacefully peacefulness placable uninhibited unpressured unpressurized unruffled unshockable poised | American Dictionarypoised adjective us/pɔɪzd/ poisedadjective (READY)[ not gradable ] ready to move, or prepared and waiting for something to happen: The lion was poised to strike. poisedadjective (CONFIDENT)calm and confident: Angela is a polite, poised young woman. poised | Business Englishpoised adjective uk /pɔɪzd/us [ after verb ] ready to do a particular thing at any moment: poised to do sthThe public pension fund is poised to invest up to $1.5 billion over the next year. The City is poised for a major announcement on the airline's fare strategy. showing very calm and controlled behaviour: She remained poised throughout the difficult presentation. Examples of poisedpoised They are a privileged group, poised at the forefront of technological knowledge-based work. The waxwork blacksmith, for example, could be poised ready to strike with his hammer at the forge. Professional ethicists are poised to turn their attention to neuroscience. From here they are poised to reinfest the newly flushed leaves produced by the defoliated tree. He was poised to adopt these approaches without condition. Being poised and being able to carry them out are different matters. The central relationship of the poem is apparently unresolved, poised between anchored commitment and undone moorings. They were now poised for the final showdown. They are rather poised between alternatives in the knowledge of their outcome, a rhetoric that historical writing can hope to imitate only in part. We are poised on the edge of the precipice of either great discoveries or major disasters. To be visually conscious in general is to be poised to become aware of a present feature (that is, to become transitively conscious of it). In contrast, a player who is truly free and poised will be able to move or remain still with little change to the performance. Poised before his empty staves, what does the composer do if not improvise? Pressure to implement the latest technology the fastest is real, as the earliest innovators are poised to reap the (potentially) biggest gains65. History as a discipline is poised uncomfortably, but unavoidably, between the need to tell a story and the need to tell the truth, between rhetoric and science. See all examples of poised These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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