ponting

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. the act of posing until nearly frozen in all sorts of uncomfortable positions.
    — The whale incident had, of course, inspired numerous quips about Jonah ... This latest mishap revived all the former quizzing about the evil-eye propensities of my camera, and I was once again the butt for no end of twittering about the peril of "ponting" for Ponko... the more I protested... the more persistently these crimes were fastened on to me. But such railleries were always good-natured, and everyone in the Hut was subjected to them whenever the slightest occasion presented.

词形变化

pontings plural

词源

From the name of Herbert George Ponting, photographer on Scott's 1910-13 expedition.
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