poised
/pɔɪzd/ 形容词 C1中文： 泰然自若的、做好准备的、保持平衡的
- Possessing poise, having self-confidence.
- Ready, prepared. · He stood there, poised to act, and then suddenly he drew his gun in a smooth arc.
- Balanced, in position, in equilibrium.
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The child she had learned to love had vanished somehow and here was this tall, serious-eyed girl of fifteen, with the thoughtful brows and the proudly poised little head, in her place.
On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.
As I approached the hut, walking as warily as Stapleton would do when with poised net he drew near the settled butterfly, I satisfied myself that the place had indeed been used as a habitation.
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