【standing音标】 英[ˈstændɪŋ] 美[ˈstændɪŋ]
【单词释义】 standing是什么意思：
n.起立，站立；身份，地位，声望adj.永久的，长期的；站着进行的，站立的；常设的v.站立，起立；忍受；竖放(stand 的现在分词)
[单词分级] 专四/雅思/SAT词汇
[单词复数] standings
【关联词/派生词】
stand n.台，看台；立场 v.站立，起立；忍受；竖放
standard n.标准，规格 adj.标准的，合格的；
standpoint n.立场，观点
standardize vt.使标准化；使符合标准（或规格）
【单词例句】
◇ Snow-white awoke, and saw the seven Little Men with their big beards standing near her bed. She was afraid.
白雪公主醒了，发现七个留着大胡子的小矮人正站在她床旁，她很害怕。
---- Snow White
◇ Now the poor girl was alone in the wild woods. Looking around, she saw an old women standing next to her.
荒凉的森林里现在只剩下了公主一个人。她朝四周看了看，见身边站着一位老太婆。
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ She had no sooner touched the spindle when the magic curse was fulfilled, and she pricked herself in the finger. The instant that she felt the prick she fell onto a bed that was standing there, and she lay there in a deep sleep.
但她刚一碰到它，咒语就应验了，她刺中了自己的手指，她一感觉到刺痛，就跌倒在一张站在那里的床上，躺在那里沉睡过去。
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ It was a Princess who was standing outside the door. What with the rain and the wind, she was in a sad condition; the water trickled down from her hair,and her clothes clung to her body. She said she was a real Princess.
站在城外的是一位公主。可是，天哪！经过了风吹雨打之后，她的样子是多么难看啊！水沿着她的头发和衣服向下面流，流进鞋尖，又从脚跟流出来。 她说她是一个真正的公主。
---- The Real Princess
◇ and when she danced towards the open church door, she saw an angel standing there. He wore long, white garments; he had wings which reached from his shoulders to the earth; his countenance was severe and grave; and in his hand he held a sword, broad and glittering.
当她跳到教堂敞着的大门口的时候，她看到一位穿白长袍的安琪儿。她的翅膀从肩上一直拖到脚下，她的面孔是庄严而沉着，手中拿着一把明晃晃的剑。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ So now the Emperor walked under his high canopy in the midst of the procession, through the streets of his capital; and all the people standing by, and those at the windows, cried out, "Oh! How beautiful are our Emperor's new clothes! What a magnificent train there is to the mantle; and how gracefully the scarf hangs!" in short, no one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit for his office. Certainly, none of the Emperor's various suits, had ever made so great an impression, as these invisible ones.
这么着，皇帝就在那个富丽的华盖下游行起来了。站在街上和窗子里的人都说：“乖乖，皇上的新装真是漂亮！他上衣下面的后裾是多么美丽！衣服多么合身！”谁也不愿意让人知道自己看不见什么东西，因为这样就会暴露自己不称职，或是太愚蠢。皇帝所有的衣服从来没有得到这样普遍的称赞。
◇ The shift reverses a long-standing prohibition against tourists and private interests at the orbiting research lab, and reflects a broader push to expand commercial activities at the ISS and in space more generally.
长期以来，轨道研究实验室都禁止游客和私人机构到访，而这一转变推翻了这一禁令，同时也表明美国国家航空航天局将在国际空间站和太空中更广泛地扩大商业活动。
---- NASA to open space station to private citizens
◇ In fact, the aversion touched many cultures, from the long-standing taboo in Islamic countries against eating and drinking with one's left hand, to the expectation in ancient Japan that any wife who didn't favor her right could be legally divorced on the spot, no questions asked.
事实上，古人对左手的厌恶跨越多国文化，从伊斯兰国家长久以来对于用左手吃喝的禁忌，到日本古代不爱用右手的妻子可能会当场被休，合理合法，连质询都不需要。
---- Why are wedding rings worn on the left hand?
◇ One day he had gone into the forest to gather wood, where he was approached by an old man, whom he had never seen before, and who said, "Why do you torment yourself with chopping wood? I will make you rich if you will promise me that which is standing behind your mill."
有一天，他到森林里去砍柴，一个他从没见过的老头走近前来对他说：“你何苦这么辛苦地砍柴呀？只要你答应把你磨房后的东西给我，我就让你过富人的日子。”