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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• It's biblical out there, he says, gesturing towards the Afghan mountains.
  那儿是圣地，他表示，手指阿富汗山脉。
• As you walked into church, you would notice some impressively robed people singing, speaking and gesturing at the far end, either in view of the congregation or else in a partially enclosed space from which they periodically emerged.
  走进教堂，就能看到一些身着长袍的人，非常显眼，在教堂的另一头唱歌、说话、打手势；时而在教堂会众的眼皮底下，时而在一个被围住了一块的地方汇聚。
• 'Some people like that and others don't. But there are some people for whom it's completely incompatible,' Mr. Putin said, gesturing toward his wife.
  普京说，有些人喜欢这样，有些人不喜欢。但对有些人来说则是完全不能相容的。他朝自己的太太示意了一下。
• 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。
• 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。