poise
poise 英 [pɔɪz] 美 [pɔɪz]
n. 平衡；姿势；镇静 vt. 使平衡；保持...姿势 vi. 平衡；准备好；悬着
进行时:poising 过去式:poised 过去分词:poised 第三人称单数:poises 名词复数:poises
- If you have poise, you are cool under stress. People with poise can handle pressure without showing it.
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- n. 平衡；姿势；镇静
- vt. 使平衡；保持...姿势
- vi. 平衡；准备好；悬着
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1. He became a bitter recluse, shutting himself away from his many friends and refusing every activity that might restore his poise and bring him back to his normal self.
那位父亲痛不欲生。 他成了一个痛苦的遁世者，拒绝亲朋好友，拒绝参与每一项也许会让他恢复平静、重返正常自我的活动。
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2. I love you more than you can ever know. And I am grateful every day for your patience, poise, grace, and humor as we prepare to start our new life together in the White House.
我深以你俩为荣，你们永远不会明白我有多爱你们，在我们准备一同在白宫开始新生活之际，我没有一天不为你们的忍耐、沉稳、明理和幽默而心存感激。
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3. And I am grateful every day for your patience, poise, grace,and humor as we prepare to start our new life together in the WhiteHouse.
在我们准备一同在白宫开始新生活之际，我没有一天不为你们的忍耐、沉稳、明理和幽默而心存感激。
- poise (n.) early 15c., "weight, quality of being heavy," later "significance, importance" (mid-15c.), from Old French pois "weight, balance, consideration" (12c., Modern French poids), from Medieval Latin pesum "weight," from Latin pensum "something weighted or weighed," (source of Provençal and Catalan pes, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian peso), noun use of neuter past participle of pendere "to hang, cause to hang; weigh" (from PIE root *(s)pen- "to draw, stretch, spin").
- poise (v.) late 14c., "to have a certain weight," from stressed form of Old French peser "to weigh, be heavy; weigh down, be a burden; worry, be a concern," from Vulgar Latin *pesare, from Latin pensare "to weigh carefully, weigh out, counter-balance," frequentative of pendere (past participle pensus) "to hang, cause to hang; weigh; pay" (from PIE root *(s)pen- "to draw, stretch, spin"). For form evolution from Latin to French, see OED. Meaning "to place in equilibrium" is from 1630s (compare equipoise). Passive sense of "to be ready" (to do something) is from 1932. Related: Poised; poising. In 15c. a poiser was an official who weighed goods.
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