self-possession

英 [ˌself pəˈzeʃn]

美 [ˌself pəˈzeʃn]

n.  沉着;镇静;泰然自若

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 沉着;镇静;泰然自若
  Self-possessionis the quality of being self-possessed.
  1. She found her customary self-possession had deserted her.
     她发现自己不像平时那样处事不惊了。

英英释义

noun

• the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior
  Synonym:self-controlpossessionwillpowerwill powerself-commandself-will

双语例句

• Because of his small size and fair good looks ( and maybe also because of that very quality of self-possession I had admired), the sisters were after Andy from the day he walked in.
  由于安迪长得比较矮小，生就一张俊脸，或许也因为他那特有的泰然自若的神态，他一进来就被那批姊妹看上了。
• "What seems to be the matter?" inquired Lincoln, with all the calmness and self-possession he could muster.
  这是怎么一回事？林肯询问道，他竭力保持沉着和镇静。
• He looked surprised but soon recovered his self-possession.
  他看上去有点惊异，但很快恢复了镇静。
• Public Practice and Man's Self-improvement and the Significant Structure of Self-possession& Individual Activities and the Ideality of Marxist Community
  公共性实践的逻辑与人类自我造就和自为拥有的意义结构&现实个人的自主活动与马克思社群共同体的理想
• Its principle clinical symptom is progressive loss of memory ability and cognitive impairment, personality change and cortex abruption, loss of self-possession and perceptivity, and in advanced stage, memory, linguistic and behavior capacities of patient will completely lossed.
  其主要临床症状表现为进行性学习记忆减退，认知障碍，个性改变及皮层分离症，自制力和理解力丧失，晚期则为记忆力完全丧失，语言及行为能力丧失。
• Or chanting when under duress, Im not a loser. Yet when she isnt mooning or abasing herself to win the attention of a handsome fellow intern, she shows off a preternatural self-possession, the girl with all the answers.
  或者在受欺负时念咒我不是个失败者然而当她毫不费力的赢得了英俊的实习生的注意时，她又展现出了异常的沉着，这个女孩有着所有的答案。
• Feeling that Nekhludoff wanted to lead her out into another world, she resisted him, foreseeing that she would have to lose her place in life, with the self-possession and self-respect it gave her.
  她发觉聂赫留朵夫要把她拉到另一个世界里去，就加以抵制，因为预见到在那个世界里她将丧失这样的生活地位，从而也就丧失自信心和自尊心。
• She most likely has experience in law enforcement or the military, though she may simply be a self-defense advocate or a dedicated hobbyist with uncommon self-possession.
  她八成有著执法或者军队的经验，虽然她也可能只是自我防卫的拥护者或是一个有著不凡私有物的狂热者。
• "In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things"( William Butler Yeats).
  “在生活中礼貌和镇定，在艺术风格上是自由思想的明智反映，因为二者均出于对所有事物的有意的塑造”（威廉·巴特勒·叶芝）。
• Attached? Sustain patience, serenity, and your self-possession.
  有伴的需保持耐心，沉着冷静。