| 词汇 | posturing |
| 释义 | posturing noun[ U ] disapprovinguk /ˈpɒs.tʃər.ɪŋ/ us /ˈpɑːs.tʃɚ.ɪŋ/ behaviour or speech that is intended to attract attention and interest, or to make people believe something that is not true: 装模作样;装腔作势;虚伪表现（或言论） His writing has been dismissed as mere intellectual posturing.他的文章被斥为知识分子的装腔作势。 Attention-seeking, distracting and showing off check out chichi dressed exhibitionist exhibitionistic exhibitionistically flamboyance flamboyant flaunt gimmickry meretricious neg negging ostentation ostentatiously peacock peacocking showboating swanky zooty postureverb[ I ]ukus Examples of posturingposturing She rejects his posturing and quickly moves to the next day's nuptial arrangements. In the first instance, evidence reveals that 'ethical posturing' emits signals capable of acknowledging intrinsic motivation. In general, however, boundary dispute posturing had many facets whereby that process's village identity production mechanism was not always so evident. What enables this is an attitude of playfulness: more precisely, of playing at, of posturing: a ludic stance that creates ironic distance from the real. As a result of guaranteed stalemate, both sides freely played the political game of rhetoric, symbols, and public posturing. This has given a whole new dimension to sectarian posturing. No catatonic patient was able to give an account of the position in which he kept his limbs, thus remaining unaware of posturing. Posturing can occur in limbs ("classic posturing"), head ("psychic pillow"), and eyes ("staring"). For long periods there may be immobility with open staring eyes and catatonic posturing of the limbs. It is a useful literature review that is free of jargon and dogmatic intellectual posturing. Such defensive posturing indicated that the presentation of employment opportunities was not neutral but was framed to refute stereotypical cultural prejudice. The presence of these artifacts in the tombs was no mere posturing. Unfortunately, there are no data available whether post-acute patients recognize the posturing characterizing their acute state as their own. The same sign, that is, akinesia may be accompanied by different symptoms in both diseases, respectively, such as starting problems and posturing. We did not choose to do this because human social interactions do not begin with the same posturing that monkey social interactions do. 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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