身體擺出的樣子
這一支就是核心畫面最字面的層次：真實的身體，真實的位置。
way you hold your body · noun · C1
The way you hold your body when you sit or stand.
姿勢
核心畫面
One way to hold it: the shape your body is holding right now — how you are standing, and what that shape says to anyone watching. A position you have taken up, and can be seen taking up.
你此刻把身體擺成的那個樣子——背是直的還是駝的、下巴抬著還是低著、肩膀開著還是縮著。關鍵是這個畫面有兩層：一層是身體…更多收起
你此刻把身體擺成的那個樣子——背是直的還是駝的、下巴抬著還是低著、肩膀開著還是縮著。關鍵是這個畫面有兩層：一層是身體本身的位置，另一層是這個位置被別人看見之後傳達出來的訊息。人一站定，姿勢就已經在說話了。英文的 posture 一路延伸出去的意思，全都建立在這個「擺出一個姿態，而且是給人看的」上面。From the word’s history
From Latin 'positura' (position, arrangement), from 'ponere', to place — the word literally means 'the way something has been placed'. Posture is a doublet of 'positura' and a cousin of 'position': all of them are about a placement that has been chosen and taken up.
posture 經法語、義大利語，來自拉丁語 positūra（位置、擺放的方式），字根是 pōnere（放置）。也就是說，這個字的字面意思就是「被擺成的樣子」。它和 position 同源，也是 positura 的同源異形詞（doublet）。理解這一點就抓到重點了：posture 不是天生的形狀，而是「被擺出來的」——有人做了擺放的動作。從身體姿勢到政治姿態，這個「擺出來給人看」的意思一直沒有離開過。
Wiktionary, 'posture' (< Middle French posture < Italian postura < Latin positūra 'position'; doublet of positura)
Three branches
對外擺出的立場
從身體移到態度：一個人或一個組織「站在哪個位置」，同樣是擺出來的，同樣是給外界看的。
attitude, stance · noun · C1
How you behave or think in a situation, and the way you show that to other people.
姿態
擺樣子給人看：posturing
還是「擺出一個位置給人看」，但重點從「這是我的位置」滑向了「我只是擺給你看的」——真假之間的落差成了這一支的主角。
pretending an opinion (posturing) · noun · C1
The act of pretending to hold an opinion or attitude, especially so that other people will approve. This sense usually appears as the noun posturing.
作態
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
posturenoun/ˈpɒst͡ʃə/
- 1
The way a person holds and positions their body.
- As if that whatsoever god who leads him Were slily crept into his human powers, And gave him graceful posture.
- […] walking in a most dejected posture, without a band, unbraced, his arms a-cross his open breast, and his eyes bent to the floor;
- 2
A situation or condition.
- Even as I was reading these fables of my millions, there lay on the desk before me a statement of the exact posture of my affairs […]
- Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things.
- 3
One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan ...that is, their Forts, Garrisons, and Guns upon the Frontiers of their Kingdomes; and continuall Spyes upon their neighbours; which is a posture of War.
- 1912, G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men But it is not true, no sane person can call it true, that man as a whole in his general attitude towards the world, in his posture towards death or green fields, towards the weather or the baby, will be wise to cultivate dissatisfaction.
- 4
rareThe position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
- 1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World The Moon beheld in any posture, in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear.
- As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear. In this posture they travelled many hours, till they came into a wide and well-beaten road […]
postureverb/ˈpɒst͡ʃə/
- 1
To put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired.
- If you're finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now?
- 2
To pretend to have an opinion or a conviction.
- The politicians couldn't really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media.
- But these plays allow us to look beyond the posturing, punditry and angry speechifying, to really feel the painful, inescapable hardships of daily life as it is lived by increasing numbers of Americans.
- 3
To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
- to posture oneself; to posture a model
- As pointed Diamonds being set, Cast greater lustre out of Jet, Those peeces we esteem most rare, Which in night shadows postur'd are.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。