gaze

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈɡæɪz/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
    — Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
  2. The object gazed on. archaic
    — Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell.
  3. In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
    — She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator.
  4. The framework in which a subject is presented, determined by the biases of the creator and/or audience. in-compounds,usually
    — hooks is right to argue that within this culture the ethnographic conceit of a neutral gaze will always be a white gaze, an unmarked white gaze, one which passes its own perspective off as the omniscient
动词 v.
  1. To stare intently or earnestly. intransitive
    — They gazed at the stars for hours.
  2. To stare at. poetic,transitive
    — Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie

词形变化

gazes present,singular,third-person gazing participle,present gazed participle,past gazed past gazes plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English gasen; akin to Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”).
词源 2
From Middle English gasen; akin to Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”).
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