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

  1. N-COUNT 手势；姿势；示意动作
    A gesture is 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。
  2. N-COUNT （表明态度或意图的）姿态，表示
    A gesture is 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。
  3. VERB 打手势；用手势表示；用动作示意
    If you gesture, 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。
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双语例句

  1. The editor grimaced, gesturing in negation
    编辑一脸苦相，做了个拒绝的手势。
  2. 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。
  3. In parts of East Asia, gesturing is considered boorish behaviour, and would be rude in a professional setting.
    在有些东亚地区，使用手势被认为是粗鲁的行为，而且在职业场合中会很无礼。
  4. 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。
  5. Call out your dog's name and say 'come' in a happy voice, smiling and gesturing to your dog.
    叫你爱狗的名字，用较为甜美的声音对它喊过来！，并对爱狗微笑，打手势。
  6. And they do, a little, though not always because of their classes: The only way a 17-year-old Italian boy can talk to a 16-year-old Swedish girl is by smiling, gesturing and trying out his English.
    他们确实稍有进步，但并不一定是因为上课才获得提高：17岁的意大利男孩要想跟16岁的瑞典姑娘交流，只能通过微笑、打手势，还有从口中努力蹦出英语。
  7. '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。
  8. The self-promoters those who spoke quickly and at length and used such ingratiation tactics as smiling, gesturing and complimenting others received far more positive evaluations than equally qualified applicants who used tactical modesty, the researchers reported.
    研究人员报告说，那些自我推销者语速快、谈话内容详细，运用微笑、打手势和赞美他人等逢迎战术，他们比那些资质相当、采用谦虚战略的求职者得到的正面评价要多得多。
  9. Tired and slightly ill, esp from working hard The singer pointed to his throat, gesturing fatigue.
    疲惫的，衰弱的尤指因劳累歌唱家指着喉头，示意自己非常疲劳。
  10. 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。
  11. 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。
  12. When we arrived we were greeted by a local who could only mention he was from Nepal? After another hour and some hand gesturing we were eventually put onto a seaplane back to Male.
    当我们到达我们的是由当地的人只会提到他来自尼泊尔吗？一个小时后，我们终于被指手放到一个水上回男。
  13. VC: ( Gesturing) You gotta ask that guy down there.
    卡特：（打手势）喏，去问那头的家伙吧。
  14. "That's me from before," she says, gesturing to a photo in an aid organisation magazine.
    我以前是那个样子。她边说边用手指着救援组织杂志上的一张照片。
  15. 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。
  16. They would think I was crazy, he says, gesturing with his bony hands.
    他们可能觉得我疯了，他一边说一边用他那瘦骨嶙峋的双手比划着。
  17. 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！
  18. "That would be us, 1-2-3," one girl answers, gesturing at the third girl who is still attending the front desk.
    “我们就是：1-2-3，”和我们站在一起的一个小妹说，说3的时候指向一个还在前台的女孩。
  19. 'Without the highway, we wouldn't dare to develop this,'he says, gesturing toward his fields of corn, eggplant and chili peppers.
    他指着自己种着玉米、茄子和辣椒的地说，如果没有高速公路，我们肯定不敢这么干。
  20. 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。
  21. He was gesturing that he needed help.
    他示意自己需要帮助。
  22. 'asked Montana Slim, gesturing to him, the buddy of the men, in this lion's den.
    向他示意问道，人们的好友（佛陀），在这狮子的巢穴。
  23. 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。
  24. She smiled, amused and faintly dismissive, gesturing to the robe on his arm.
    她绕有兴趣地笑笑，略为高傲地指指他手臂上的睡袍。
  25. The singer pointed to his throat, gesturing fatigue.
    歌唱家指着喉头，示意自己非常疲劳。
  26. That must have been what Kyle was gesturing about, John thought to himself.
    这一定就是刚才凯尔那个手势的意思，约翰心想。
  27. "Hey, you two!" she says, gesturing toward a young couple with arms draped around each other's waist.
    “嘿，你们两个！”她喊住了一对相互挽腰的年轻情侣。
  28. We assume that our way of talking and gesturing is "natural" and that those who do things differently are somehow playing with nature.
    我们总以为，我们谈话和打手势的方式是“自然的”，而觉得那些行为方式与我们不同的人是有点态度草率。
  29. 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。
  30. Gesturing to the chair to her left you may sit down.
    指著她左侧的椅子你可以坐下。
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