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

• Tired and slightly ill, esp from working hard The singer pointed to his throat, gesturing fatigue.
  疲惫的，衰弱的尤指因劳累歌唱家指着喉头，示意自己非常疲劳。
• "That's me from before," she says, gesturing to a photo in an aid organisation magazine.
  我以前是那个样子。她边说边用手指着救援组织杂志上的一张照片。
• 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。
• VC: ( Gesturing) You gotta ask that guy down there.
  卡特：（打手势）喏，去问那头的家伙吧。
• 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。
• 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。
• Gesturing tends to work itself out as you acquire experience and confidence.
  随着经验的积累和信心的增强，你会自然而然地学会打手势。
• When we arrived we were greeted by a local who could only mention he was from Nepal? After another hour and some hand gesturing we were eventually put onto a seaplane back to Male.
  当我们到达我们的是由当地的人只会提到他来自尼泊尔吗？一个小时后，我们终于被指手放到一个水上回男。
• Call out your dog's name and say 'come' in a happy voice, smiling and gesturing to your dog.
  叫你爱狗的名字，用较为甜美的声音对它喊过来！，并对爱狗微笑，打手势。
• She was gesturing so excitedly that I knew something was wrong.
  她如此激动地直打手势，我知道出问题了。