单词 | stance |
释义 | stance /stans/, n. 1. the position or bearing of the body while standing: legs spread in a wide stance; the threatening stance of the bull. 2. a mental or emotional position adopted with respect to something: They assumed an increasingly hostile stance in their foreign policy. 3. Sports. the relative position of the feet, as in addressing a golf ball or in making a stroke. [1525-35; < OF estance (standing) position < VL *stantia, deriv. of L stant- (s. of stans), prp. of stare to STAND] |
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