| 正面 | 2989.gesture 英 ['dʒestʃə]美 ['dʒɛstʃɚ]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1、gest- "behave, act" + -ure.2、字面含义：action, behavior. => posture, manner of carrying the body, action undertaken in good will to express feeling.n. 姿态；手势vi. 作手势；用动作示意vt. 用动作表示 例句： 1. Their handshake appeared to be a gesture of reconciliation.他们的握手似乎是和解的表示。 gesture 手势来自词根ger, gest, 含有，带来，词源同exaggerate, gesture. 指指姿势，手势。 gesturegesture: [15] Originally, a person’s gesture was their ‘bearing’, the way they ‘carried’ themselves: ‘He was a knight of yours full true, and comely of gesture’, Sir Cleges 1410. But by the 16th century it was well on its way via ‘bodily movement’ to ‘bodily movement conveying a particular message’. The word came from medieval Latin gestūra, a derivative of Latin gerere ‘carry, conduct oneself, act’. A parallel derivative was gestus ‘action’ (ultimate source of English jest and jester), whose diminutive gesticulus produced English gesticulate [17].=> gestation, gesticulate, jest, jestergesture (n.)early 15c., "manner of carrying the body," from Medieval Latin gestura "bearing, behavior, mode of action," from Latin gestus "gesture, carriage, posture" (see gest). Restricted sense of "a movement of the body or a part of it, intended to express a thought or feeling," is from 1550s; figurative sense of "action undertaken in good will to express feeling" is from 1916.gesture (v.)1540s, from gesture (n.). Related: Gestured; gesturing." |