poise
释义:
poise
poise,英语单词,主要用作名词、及物动词、不及物动词,作名词时译为“(Poise)人名;(法)普瓦斯”,作及物动词时译为“使平衡;保持”,作不及物动词时译为“平衡;准备好;悬着”。
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英语
词源
源自中古英语 poys、poyse,源自盎格鲁-诺曼语 pois、中古法语 pois (“重量”)和盎格鲁-诺曼语 poise、中古法语 poise (一种重量单位),源自拉丁语 pēnsāre (“衡量,斟酌,思考”)。
发音
名词
- 平衡,稳定
- Template:RQ:Bentley Confutation of Atheism
- plants and animals, which are all made up of and nourished by water, and perhaps never return to water again, do not keep things at a poise
- Template:RQ:Bentley Confutation of Atheism
- 泰然,镇定,沉稳
- 风采,风度,举止
- 悬浮,悬垂;悬挂
- (物理学) 泊(粘度单位)
- (弃用) 重量
- 1590,埃德蒙·斯宾塞, 仙后(The Faerie Qveene. […]), OCLC 960102938, book 1, canto 12:
- as an huge rockie clift, / Whose false foundation waues haue washt away, / With dreadfull poyse is from the mayneland rift, / […] So downe he fell […]
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- (称重时的)重量比照物
- 平衡物,造成平衡的物体
- Template:RQ:Dryden Innocence
衍生词汇
- anglepoise
- centipoise
- counterpoise
- decapoise
- equipoise
- overpoise
- poiseless
相关词汇
动词
poise(第三人称单数简单现在时 poises,现在分词 poising,一般过去时及过去分词 poised)
- (弃用) 平衡地悬挂着;悬而未决
- Template:RQ:Longfellow The Seaside and the Fireside
- The slender, graceful spars / Poise aloft in the air.
- Template:RQ:Longfellow The Seaside and the Fireside
- (弃用) 抗衡
- 约1603–1604年,威廉·莎士比亚,“The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice [奥赛罗]”,出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (第一对开本),伦敦: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount,出版年份1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:
- one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality
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- 1699, John Dryden, Epistle to John Dryden
- to poise with solid sense a sprightly wit
- (弃用) 重 (重量为...) [14-17世纪]
- (弃用) 给...加重负荷 [16-18世纪]
- 1603,Michel de Montaigne,章号2,出自John Florio译,, The Essayes […],book II,London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- Every man poiseth [译 poise] upon his fellowes sinne, and elevates his owne.
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- (现罕用) 使...平衡,握着...使其保持平衡 [自16世纪]
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Romeo
- (以平衡的姿态)握着,拿着,举着(不动);使...平衡,使...稳定 [自16世纪]
- I poised the crowbar in my hand, and waited.
- 我将撬棍握紧在手里,然后等着。
- to poise the scales of a balance
- (托着或压着)让天平刻度平衡
- Template:RQ:Dryden Metamorphoses
- 维持...的平衡,顶着...使其不动 [自17世纪]
- The rock was poised precariously on the edge of the cliff.
- 岩石悬停在山崖边摇摇欲坠。
- 查明,想清
- Template:RQ:South Twelve Sermons
衍生词汇
- counterpoise
- outpoise
- overpoise
- poiser
- unpoised
古法语
其他形式
- peise (盎格鲁-诺曼)
名词
poise f(间接格复数 poises,主格单数 poise,主格复数 poises)
- 重量
- 一种单位不详的度量单位,可能因当时的技术水平亦有各种变体。
派生语汇
- → 英语: poise
参考资料
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (poise)