composure
composure 英 [kəmˈpəʊʒə(r)] 美 [kəmˈpoʊʒə(r)]
n. 镇静；沉着
名词复数:composures
- When you stay calm under pressure, you keep your composure. Keeping your composure for a skinned knee? Easy. Keeping your composure during an avalanche? Not so easy.
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- n. 镇静；沉着
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1. He behaved with great composure.
他表现得非常镇静。
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2. His composure threw us off.
他的镇静使我们上了当。
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3. With her composure, she survived every atempt to discountenance her.
不管各种令她窘迫的企图，她都保持镇静，从困境中挺了过来。
- composure (n.) c. 1600, "composition, act of composing, constructing, arrangement" (also, in early use, with many senses now given to compound (n.2)), from compose + -ure. Sense of "tranquility, calmness, composed state of mind" is first recorded 1660s, from composed"calm" (c. 1600). For sense, compare colloquial fall apart "lose one's composure."
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