defensive ；
[例句] 部队在全城采取了守势。 Troops took up a defensive position around the town.
[例句] 敌军被迫采取守势. The enemy troops are put on the defensive.
（情势） impetus，momentum，tendency ；
[例句] 但在其他商店纷纷关门倒闭之时，大型超市的强劲扩张势头却依旧不减。 But as other shops fold, the march of the superstores continues.
[例句] 无迹象显示裁员势头会减缓。 There were no signs of any let-up in job-shedding.
snobbish，snobbery，snobbishness，snobbism ；
[例句] 她很势利,不愿住在那个普通旅馆. She's much too snobbish to stay at that plain hotel.
[例句] 劳斯十分势利，喜欢攀龙附凤——这几乎是不可否认的事实。 That Rous was a snob and a social climber could scarcely be denied.
[牧] castrate，emasculate，gonadectomy，emasculation，gelding ；
[例句] 他们约在七年之前将这家畜去势. They had the animal neutered some seven years back.
[例句] 阉牛是去势的公牛. A bullock is a castrated bull.
snobbish attitude，snobbishness，（势利之人） snob ；
[例句] 战时的海军中很少有势利眼，阶级意识也不强。 There was very little snobbery or class-consciousness in the wartime navy.
[例句] 她母亲为人刻薄，势利眼，嗓门又大。 His mother was catty, status-conscious and loud.
[心理] set，[德] einstellung （原苏联定势心理学学派的基本概念） ；
[例句] 中国经济将持续发展已成定势. The sustained growth momentum of the Chinese economy is irreversible.
[例句] 心理定势在当今的健美操运动中有着十分重要的作用. The mental orientation plays a very important role in modern gymnastics.
the condition of an injury (or wound) ；
[例句] 我们担心稍微颠簸一下就可能会使她的伤势恶化。 We were worried that one tiny jolt could worsen her injuries.
[例句] 他们伤势严重。 They were badly injured.
geopotential，gravitational potential，gravity potential，gravitation potential ；
[例句] 于是, 重力中心站成为了有史以来最大的重力势阱发生器. As such, Station is the largest gravity well projector on record.
[例句] 战舰装备有十台重力势井投射器,用来阻止敌对舰只通过超空间逃离战场. The ship was equipped with ten gravity - well projectors to prevent enemy vessels from escaping to hyperspace.
ritzy，snobbish ；
[例句] 这种鄙吝势利的暴发户, 咱们不希罕和他们做亲家. ” Well , we've no need for relatives who are such stingy, snobbish parvenus as that. "
[例句] 势利的球形门柄正在大堂里做他的嗜好. Snobbish Knob is doing his hobby in the lobby.
to gesture，to gesticulate；
[例句] 他做手势要我安静. He signed to me to be quiet.
[例句] 警察做手势叫他们停住. The policeman signed ( for ) them to stop.
gesticulate，motion，pantomime ；
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