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- a position of a person's body when standing or sitting姿势, 仪态, 体位：
he stood in a flamboyant posture with his hands on his hips
他双手叉腰以炫耀的姿态站在那里
mass noun good posture will protect your spine.良好姿态会有助于保护你的脊椎骨。
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- Zoology a particular pose adopted by a bird or other animal, interpreted as a signal of a specific pattern of behaviour【动】（鸟或其他动物的）体态。
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- figurative a particular way of dealing with or considering something; an approach or attitude〈喻〉（处理或考虑问题的）方式, 方法, 态度：
trade unions adopted a more militant posture in wage negotiations.
工会在工资谈判中采取了更激进的方式。
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- figurative a particular way of behaving that is intended to convey a false impression; a pose〈喻〉姿态：
despite pulling back its missiles, the government maintained a defiant posture for home consumption.
尽管撤回了导弹, 该政府在国内消费问题上仍旧保持大胆的姿态。
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- no obj. [often as noun posturing] behave in a way that is intended to impress or mislead others摆出姿态：
a masking of fear with macho posturing.
摆出男子汉姿态以掩饰恐惧感。
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- with obj. adopt (a certain attitude) so as to impress or mislead故作（姿态）：
the companies may posture regret, but they have a vested interest in increasing Third World sales.
这些公司可能会故作姿态, 表示遗憾, 但他们在增加第三世界销售这个问题上却是有利可图的。
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- with obj. and adverbial archaic place (someone) in a particular attitude or pose〈古〉使处于…态度（或姿态）：
and still these two were postured motionless.
这两个东西仍旧处于静止状态。
派生词
postural
adjectiveposturer
noun词源
late 16th cent. (denoting the relative position of one thing to another)： from French, from Italian postura, from Latin positura 'position', from posit- 'placed', from the verb ponere.