Gesture的意思|Gesture的解释-里氏词典

gesture ['dʒɛstʃɚ]

n. 手势, 姿态

vi. 作手势, 作姿态

[医] 手势, 手语

She gestured her disappointment by laying her hand on her forehead.
她把手放在额头上，以表示失望。
A speaker often makes gestures with his hands or arms to stress something he is saying.
演讲者常用手或手臂做手势来强调他所说的某些要点。
The doctor gestured me to take off my coat.
医生做手势要我脱去外套。

gesture

[ noun ]

motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling

<noun.act>

the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals

<noun.communication>

something done as an indication of intention

<noun.act>

a political gesture

a gesture of defiance

[ verb ]

show, express or direct through movement

<verb.communication>

gesticulate

motion

He gestured his desire to leave

Gesture \Ges"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gestured}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Gesturing}.]
To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action; to
gesticulate.

It is not orderly read, nor gestured as beseemeth.
--Hooker.

Gesture \Ges"ture\, v. i.
To make gestures; to gesticulate.

The players . . . gestured not undecently withal.
--Holland.

Gesture \Ges"ture\, n. [LL. gestura mode of action, fr. L.
gerere, gestum, to bear, behave, perform, act. See {Gest} a
deed.]
1. Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or
limbs; posture. [Obs.]

Accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture
used by many nations. --Sir T.
Browne.

2. A motion of the body or limbs expressive of sentiment or
passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea
or a passion, or to enforce or emphasize an argument,
assertion, or opinion.

Humble and reverent gestures. --Hooker.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love. --Milton.

Schmidt was released in September in what his captors said was a goodwill gesture, but Cordes remains a hostage.
What was intended to be a simple gesture of international friendship has turned into a source of embarrassment for Missouri highway and economic development officials.
In speaking of the Queen as a foreigner, Mr Keating clearly intended to make a small gesture towards Australian nationalism.
Schmidt was released by his captors in September in what they said was a "goodwill gesture," but Cordes is still being held.
Mr. Reagan undoubtedly meant his gesture with the pile of papers to be critical, but he did not say what could have been said.
The prisoner release is seen as a gesture by Tehran to end more than a decade of acrimony with Cairo.
In an unusual gesture, the Cuban government has allowed a human rights activist and former political prisoner to make a monthlong visit to the United States.
Vice President Dan Quayle spoke by telephone with Endara's vice presidents, Billy Ford and Ricardo Arias Calderon, and administration officials also said privately he might visit Panama next month in a gesture that would dramatize administration support.
The visit "and the publicity surrounding it are interpreted as a political gesture of a nature to bring about unwelcome elements in the electoral campaign and stir new passions," the government statement said.
The only sign of the historic occasion was the pilot's announcement that all drinks would be free, the traditional airline gesture to mark a special occasion, usually an unexplained delay.
Those people said Mr. DeNunzio was allowed to stay on for a time as chairman as a face-saving gesture.
What greeted the pro-consumer gesture was the best attended congressional hearing the commissioner ever faced.
No gesture, no prop was exaggerated or wasted.
I would understand, wouldn't I, that a little gesture to the ticket attendant would secure me a seat.
In his inaugural address, President Bush appealed to Iran for help in freeing the hostages and promised a reciprocal gesture of good will if Iran was receptive to the idea.
A gesture of good will to high school seniors backfired when Charlotte-Douglas International Airport officials tried to reroute planes so noise wouldn't interfere with outdoor graduation ceremonies.
"The gesture of Mrs. Kappler, who wants to exalt the figure of her Nazi criminal husband, is a challenge to the human conscience and the Italian people," Ms. Iotti's message said.
The gesture coincides with Washington's decision, due by next week, on renewal of China's Most Favoured Nation trading status.
But reform-minded Contra elements were divided over the meaning of Mr. Calero's gesture.
Lebanon and Syria are pressing for the release of two German aid workers, the last western hostages held in Lebanon, as a goodwill gesture by their pro-Iranian captors.
In 1986, they made the single largest philanthropic gesture in the country, giving $33 million to New York Hospital.
Mr. Leuschel for his part notes that the Free Democrats, partners in government with Mr. Kohl, had pushed for what could be interpreted as an Erhard-style gesture: making Eastern Germany a lower-tax zone.
'If the French manage to send a plane with food and medicine here, it will save the lives of many people.' But jubilation was mixed with apprehension about the coming days, and fears that this gesture would not end the bloodshed, or the fighting.
In one small but particularly unpopular gesture, he eliminated the Secretary's Day perk of sending each secretary in the tobacco unit a dozen roses.
He said the family plans to use its total payments of $120,000 for such a gesture, possibly to an endowed professorship at Loma Linda University in California, where his parents worked for years and where all four of the children went to school.
THE FARMER'S gesture as he drew his hand up to his nose left little to the imagination.
But the Fed move was a small gesture, traders said.
In filling the vacancies, Mr Perez increased the number of serving military officers in his 26-member cabinet to two. This was seen as a gesture to the armed forces, where discontent is still high.
In a gesture of good will Wednesday, the Albanian Embassy in Athens told the mayor of the northern Greek town of Ioannina that the remains of Greek soldiers killed in the 1940 Greek-Italian war would be returned.
"We hope this goodwill gesture will awaken the conscience of Western nations to support the causes of the oppressed, especially the people of Palestine, who are subjected to daily killings and destruction," it said.

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