1A long, sturdy piece of timber or metal set upright in the ground and used as a support or marker.

沿着蓝色柱子前行，直到小径跟林间路会合为止。

1. 1.1 A goalpost.
   球门柱
   Robertson, at the near post, headed wide

   罗伯逊，朝附近的球门柱带球，大力顶球。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The ball bobbled viciously as it approached the near post, but Miller adroitly launched himself into its path.
   • He opened the scoring after nine minutes, squeezing the ball into the net by the near post.
   • Clydebank almost grabbed the lead in the 31st minute when their trialist wriggled free in the box, but he shot inches wide of the near post.
   • But poor tackling let Melrose back into the game with a try near the posts.
   • From the narrowest of angles he took aim at an empty net but saw his shot rebound from the near post.
   • Martin struck the rebound inches wide of the right post when a goal would have been the easier option.
   • James then raced onto a long ball over the top of the defence, chipped the goalkeeper but could only look on in frustration as the ball rebounded off the post.
   • So sure was the midfielder that he had scored, he wheeled away, arm aloft in triumph, but the ball hit a post and rebounded back.
   • On a good day the kick would have been easy, but the wind blew the ball on to the post to rebound out.
   • He went round two and under the posts for a try which Smith again improved.
   • He beat his marker and dribbled into the penalty area but his shot was high and wide of the near post.
   • When he gets the ball anywhere near the posts, he shoots.
   • His low cross was met by Martin at the near post, and he touched it over the crossbar.
   • However the goalkeeper's trailing arm got the slightest of touches to deflect the ball wide of the post.
   • His 55th-minute shot looked destined to nestle in the net - only to rebound back off the near post and to safety.
   • O'Donnell raced in under the posts for a converted try on 60 minutes.
   • The ball hit the right-hand post and rebounded into the net, far beyond Butler's despairing dive.
2. 1.2the post A starting post or winning post.
   起点柱；终点柱
   Example sentencesExamples

   • In the third race the ‘dead cert’ Rooster Booster got pipped at the post.
   • Lake Austin has never been worse than second in five trips to the post and is exiting a Churchill Downs allowance score.
   • Points are awarded to the first five horses past the post.
   • Does anybody else think the winning jockey's Cheltenham salute as they pass the post is getting beyond the bounds of sensibility and safety?
   • I think there were people who bet against him yesterday who were cheering him past the post.
   • Peter O'Sullevan commentated and I still remember that moment as Merryman passed the post.
   • By the time Rakti had reached the post yesterday he seemed to have calmed.
   • He got Ocean Silk flying towards the post but it was not enough to peg back the winner.
   • He admitted he was relieved to have passed the post first on what will be remembered as one of racing's greatest days.
   • He enjoyed plenty of success as a jockey but will always be remembered for getting pipped at the Grand National post twice in his riding career.
   • Ballingarry, third in the Irish Derby and St Leger, strode past the post to take 12 points in the World standings.

2A piece of writing, image, or other item of content published online, typically on a blog or social media website or application.

1Display (a notice) in a public place.

门上贴了一张简报。

1. 1.1 Put notices on or in.
   在…上张贴通知；在…里面张贴通知
   we have posted all the bars

   我们在所有酒吧里都张贴了通知。

2Announce or publish (something, especially a financial result)

该公司宣布亏损了460，000英镑。

1. 2.1with object and complement Publish the name of (a member of the armed forces) as missing or dead.
   宣布（军人）失踪（或死亡）
   a whole troop had been posted missing

   整个一支军队被宣布失踪。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • More fliers, bearing a photo of the deceased, are posted announcing the occasion.
   • If the expedition never returned from the desert, perhaps I would not even be posted dead, but only missing.
   • After the attack, the company had posted him missing, presumed dead.
   • He's posted as missing and as yet they have heard no word about him.
   • He is then posted as missing in action and she indulges a schoolgirl sense of romance by volunteering for a mission in France hoping to secure news of his fate.
   • Two other men were recovered drowned, and all five others were posted as missing in action.
2. 2.2 Publish (a piece of writing, image, or other item of content) online, typically on a blog or social media website or application.
   she posted a photo of herself with the singer on Twitter

   I'll post an article next week revealing the results of the poll

   the list was promptly posted all over the Internet

   the company posted the news on its blog yesterday

   Example sentencesExamples

   • In time, I may decide to send an e-mail their way or post a few messages on their discussion boards.
   • A detailed list of the missing maps has been posted on the library's website to help recover the lost materials.
   • They have posted messages on a private newsgroup making suggestions about the extent of the services she offers.
   • Fans have posted messages of sympathy on the site's bulleting board.
   • Hundreds of people called and sent faxes to the newspaper to express outrage or tell their own stories of police abuse, and tens of thousands posted messages on the Internet.
   • New information is posted on the Internet twice a month during the growing season and less frequently during winter.
   • To motivate himself he even took a picture every day and posted it on his web site.
   • Sometimes the netizens would post messages on the Internet, telling him which song they most wanted to hear.
   • He posted messages on Web sites and newsgroups in the hope that someone might be around to help him.
   • Smart pens have become the latest way to post messages to online diaries, or weblogs, while on the move.
   • The company also refuses to allow the union to post messages on a bulletin board.
   • An updated list of the questions and answers also will be posted online for all members to view.
   • The problem seems to be posting the results to a public website.
   • First they have their own food blogs to maintain, posting messages online about what they cooked, where they ate, and how they liked it.
   • A bug in recent weeks has meant that updates aren't being speedily posted to the site.
   • Sarah posted the pic to her Facebook page.
   • Naturally you can't work and have no choice but to spend the rest of your life posting messages on the Internet complaining about how everything has gone to hell.
   • The online announcements need to be posted where they'll be seen.
   • You can post messages to the site, but we won't allow anyone to post their email address, or mobile phone number, which people try and do a lot.
   • If you by chance post my message on your web site, please blank out my email.
   • The first part of this article was posted on Monday, April 15.
   • The primary evidence was posted on the Internet.
   • The virus is under analysis, more information will be posted later.
   • Video takes a lot longer to produce than photos, but I think I am going to try and start posting video clips on a more frequent basis.
   • If we remember to take a camera, maybe I'll post some pictures.
   • They then posted numerous messages to bulletin boards that exaggerated the value of the company.
   • As events unfolded, newsgroups and bulletin boards began posting messages of shock and sympathy - by evening, it was a torrent.
   • New articles are posted on the web site every day.
   • Many sites on the Internet also let you to post messages in forum and even facilitate to chat with friends while you play.
   • First, students have little intrinsic motivation to post messages in course newsgroups.
   • So if you, unlike me, know what is going on drop me an email or post a message in the forums and give me some pointers.
   • My friend was sacked as a result of the messages he posted on a newsgroup.
   • Our ambitious, resourceful nursing student should also consider posting messages with news groups devoted to the nursing profession.
   • If confidential information is posted, you need to minimize the damage and quickly resolve the issue.
   • We'll post a link to the PDF as soon as it is available.
   • I'll post a link to the full parliamentary report when I track it down.
   • People can post details of upcoming events using the on-line form, and subscribe to e-mail lists for updates.
   • A clip of his speech was posted to the website of KSN-TV.

3(of a player or team) achieve or record (a particular score or result)

史密斯和拉姆创造了世纪搭档的记录。

1British mass noun The official service or system that delivers letters and parcels.

我们会以邮寄方式通知获胜者。

票正在邮寄途中。

1. 1.1 Letters and parcels delivered.
   邮件
   she was opening her post

   她正在拆她的邮件。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Royal Mail managers were drafted to deliver post to thousands of other homes after the workers voted to continue their stoppage.
   • These days there's a fish farm, post is delivered by van, McCabe's is a seasonal guest house and the pub has gone.
   • Customers could set their watches by the times their post was delivered and the service they received was second to none.
   • A York resident today slammed the Royal Mail for delivering her post seven hours later than it used to.
   • This also had the consequence in many of the affected post offices of delaying post by an hour or more.
   • Royal Mail could have to make sure all post is delivered before noon and customers never wait more than five minutes in Post Office queues.
   • The Royal Mail has told him they would continue to deliver his post when they were able to do so.
   • Now she has had the front door replaced without a letterbox and her post is delivered to the Post Office in Bingley.
   • The people plan to stick a label across their letter boxes and decline post as part of their campaign of boycott.
   • Priority is being given to business mail with the aim of having all such post delivered by 10 am.
   • The system, which scanned post and official documents so they could be fired off to the relevant people, worked fantastically on one computer.
   • The post was largely not delivered, with an official total of 46 percent of workers on strike.

   Synonyms

   letters, cards, correspondence

   parcels, packages, packets

   mail, junk mail, direct mail
2. 1.2in singular A single collection or delivery of mail.
   一次收邮；一次投递
   entries must be received no later than first post on 14 June

   收到条目的日期最迟不得晚于6月14日星期五的第一班收邮。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • We will accept returns completed on a printed copy of the form if you post them by last post on Wednesday 30 January.
   • Even the poor postman was baffled when he came to collect the post only to discover that the postbox had apparently disappeared into thin air.
   • For inclusion on Saturday, letters should reach us by first post on Tuesday, and may be edited
3. 1.3 Used in names of newspapers.
   用于报纸名称邮报
   the Washington Post

   《华盛顿邮报》。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The New York Post, Wired, Money and TV Guide.
   • On the up were the Irish Times, the Sunday Business Post and Ireland on Sunday.
   • This autumn, we are publishing a book, Reporting Yorkshire: 250 Years of the Yorkshire Post.
   • Purdy of The Denver Post is the fifth winner of the Aldo Leopold Award for Distinguished Editorial Writing.
   • Consider the case of The Asian Wall Street Journal compared to South China Morning Post.
   • Only two turned up - from The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Post.
   • The correspondence was obtained by The Sunday Business Post under the Freedom of Information Act.
   • This led to coverage by National Public Radio, The Washington Post, and ABC News.
   • This was covered by The Sunday Business Post in last week's Money pages.
   • The group contains the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs, the Spectator, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Jerusalem Post.
   • His cartoons have also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and Saturday Review.
   • He won a Pulitzer Prize for a series he wrote for the Post on the West Point class of 1966.
   • No one at the Post, the Times, ABC, or NBC is doing the same for Fox's journalists.
   • Nice article in the Washington Post on white South Africans going to Soweto.
   • The Editor, Yorkshire Post, Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 1RF.
   • The winner will be announced in The Sunday Business Post on February 18.
   • Finally, some news just in about The Sunday Business Post's New Year's Political Quiz.
   • Competing with the Weekender for that honour is The Dominion Post, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.

2historical Each of a series of couriers who carried mail on horseback between fixed stages.

1. 2.1archaic A person or vehicle that carries mail.
   〈古〉邮差，邮车

1British with object Send (a letter or parcel) via the postal system.

我刚刚邮寄了一封信。

今天把你的订单邮寄出去。

2with object (in bookkeeping) enter (an item) in a ledger.

将交易记入第二栏。

1. 2.1 Complete (a ledger) by entering items.
   将…过账

3historical no object, with adverbial Travel with relays of horses.

我们乘坐一辆敞篷马车旅行。

1. 3.1archaic with adverbial of direction Travel with haste; hurry.
   〈古〉匆忙赶路；急行
   he comes posting up the street

   他从街上匆忙赶来。

With haste.

现在就来，赶快来。

1A position of paid employment; a job.

他辞去了外交部部长职位。

教师工作。

2A place where someone is on duty or where a particular activity is carried out.

在岗位上睡着了的倒班工人。

海关职位。

1. 2.1 A place where a soldier or police officer is stationed or which they patrol.
   哨位，巡逻地，指挥所
   he gave the men orders not to leave their posts

   他命令两位武装人员不准离开哨位。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Some trucks with equipment and a few dozen soldiers from several posts headed eastwards.
   • Some distance away, Renee could see a group of soldiers running to their posts.
   • In an unrelated matter, three of the five police constables who were transferred from the western division have not taken up duty at their assigned posts.
   • But another officer pleaded with him to stay at his post, carry on with his work, put his friend out of his mind.
   • Investigations continue to see whether other police officers deserted their posts during the height of that disaster.
   • Robert, my brother, used to tell me that a good soldier never leaves his post to fight a battle elsewhere.
   • Order will break down in many countries as soldiers and police abandon their posts in order to avoid exposure to the virus.
   • When the regime fell, soldiers simply left their posts and ran home, many with as much armament as they could carry.
   • Is that not an act of treason to go into a combat-heavy country and entice soldiers into leaving their posts?
   • Plus, all soldiers bound for posts in Germany process through there.
   • The other soldiers left their posts and huddled around the nuke.
   • It appears the security officers on duty left their post to investigate those first two explosions.
   • The lookout post at Newtownhamilton police station would also be closed.
   • It is not impossible to either fake travel permits or bribe the soldiers at control posts.
   • When no one answered the telephones in these deserted command posts there was understandable alarm.
   • High ranking police officers, in charge of police stations and posts and other policemen took part in the camp.
   • In the subsequent period, they began to be integrated with the observation and surveillance posts of other branches of service.
   • In the provinces, customs workers left their posts at the border with Paraguay.
   • There are up to 150 military posts with at least 25 soldiers stationed at each post.
   • Abandoning a post, drinking on duty and brawling in public are all serious offences in the Garda discipline code.
2. 2.2North American A force stationed at a permanent position or camp; a garrison.
   〈北美〉驻军；卫戍部队
   Example sentencesExamples

   • There is a requirement for a summer camp of six weeks between the junior and senior year of college conducted at a military post, camp, or station.
   • The military said soldiers fired at two armed men who were approaching an army post.
   • As secretary of war in the Taft administration, he visited the army posts of the Old West in the last years of their existence.
   • Usually in the forefront of expansion are the sites of military posts and encampments that protected advancing explorers or soldiers.
   • The story seemed to be all over the place, on cattle ranches and in mining camps, at military posts and isolated homesteads.
   • A final series of surrenders followed as hungry Lakota bands capitulated at military posts along the upper Missouri and Yellowstone.
   • Steagall had campaigned hard for an army post to be located in his Depression-ravaged home district.
   • They deliberately point pursuers toward nearby posts and garrisons of other federal troops.
   • The bill also would relax some environmental restrictions at military posts, allowing troops to train in areas previously off limits.
   • The QRF teams respond to potential threats and force protection situations local to their assigned posts.
   • In Oregon, the United States established military posts in 1864 at Camp Alvord and in 1867 at Fort Harney.
   • Nonetheless, a few Indiana regiments from posts in Tennessee and Kentucky did return home for the state election.
3. 2.3US A local group in an organization of military veterans.
   〈美〉退伍军人协会地方分会

3historical The status or rank of full-grade captain in the Royal Navy.

米勒船长1796年被任命为皇家海军大舰长。

1with object and adverbial Send (someone) to a place to take up an appointment.

他被派往华盛顿担任武官。

1. 1.1 Station (someone, especially a soldier or police officer) in a particular place.
   设置，安排
   a guard was posted at the entrance

   入口处布置了警卫。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Extra police officers are being posted at polling booths and on patrol duties, and France has tightened controls along its border with Spain.
   • Soldiers will be posted between the battalions, which implies some sort of merger between regiments.
   • He was posted to Malmesbury police station in 2002.
   • Soldiers were posted as guards all around the camp.
   • I was posted in the Middle East to join the 5th Indian Division at El Alamein.
   • In view of the explosive situation, a posse of policemen has been posted in the village.
   • Sentries were posted at each entrance and under orders to not permit any to pass.
   • My husband has been serving in the Forces for fifteen years, and he was posted here in Great Village last July.
   • Whilst posted ashore I have not been able to park my car in the car park during working hours, however was able to utilise this facility after hours and on weekends.
   • They include consistency wherever a member is posted and a single point of contact for standardised, simplified, quicker, service.
   • A single police constable posted at the multiplex watched helplessly as the mob struck.
   • Applicants must be Army members posted to a Victorian unit, or a unit in Wagga Wagga or Canberra.
   • Then we were posted straight to Germany and I was there a few months before I was demobbed in 1947.
   • In 1987 he was posted to the Metropolitan Police Fraud Squad.
   • New members will be posted as soon as they are named.
   • The sentries posted at the police stations have been asked to be more polite and friendly so that complainants do not hesitate from coming to the police stations.
   • He was posted directly to RAF Lyneham to join the Hercules fleet.
   • This will mean a reduction in allowances in the future, but the 23 members currently posted there will not be affected.
   • And when he was posted elsewhere and I didn't hear from him again, although it was not unexpected, it sealed my fate.
   • The base commander and all of the normal troopers that were posted at Ambine are dead too.

Subsequent to; after.

20世纪50年代以后的美国诗歌没有再产生同样的影响。