2010年12月18日 星期六

confident speaking

poise1 [uncountable]1 a calm, confident way of behaving, combined with an ability to control your feelings or reactions in difficult situations: Louisa seems to have much more poise and confidence.
2 a graceful way of moving or standing, so that your body seems balanced and not awkward: the poise of a dancer
She's pretty, but lacks poise.

at‧tain [transitive] formal1 to succeed in achieving something after trying for a long time: More women are attaining positions of power.
2 to reach a particular level, age, size etc: Share prices attained a high of $3.27.
After a year she had attained her ideal weight.

strait‧jack‧et , straightjacket [countable]1DCCSC a special piece of clothing that prevents someone from moving their arms, used to control someone who is being violent or, in the past, someone who was mentally ill2 something such as a law or set of ideas that puts very strict or unfair limits on someone: the straitjacket of censorship

a‧grar‧i‧an [usually before noun]TA relating to farming or farmers: an agrarian economy (=based on farming)

pre‧dom‧i‧nant‧lymostly or mainly: The city's population is predominantly Irish.

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