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

• 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。
• Says Stewart, gesturing at her small piles of little white fluke fillets.
  斯图尔特说，指着自己那份精致的白色小鲽鱼鱼片。
• 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。
• 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。
• "Hey, you two!" she says, gesturing toward a young couple with arms draped around each other's waist.
  “嘿，你们两个！”她喊住了一对相互挽腰的年轻情侣。
• "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。
• Somebody called my name, and I saw a ghost getting in the classroom while gesturing at me! I got off the classroom as quickly as I could.
  有人喊我的名字。我看见一个鬼魂进入教室，还向我做手势！
• 'Without the highway, we wouldn't dare to develop this,'he says, gesturing toward his fields of corn, eggplant and chili peppers.
  他指着自己种着玉米、茄子和辣椒的地说，如果没有高速公路，我们肯定不敢这么干。
• 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。