self-direction
自我导向,自我指导,自我引导,自我导向性
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Definitions
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- : the act or an instance of directing.
- : the line along which anything lies, faces, moves, etc., with reference to the point or region toward which it is directed: The storm moved in a northerly direction.
- : the point or region itself: The direction is north.
- : a position on a line extending from a specific point toward a point of the compass or toward the nadir or the zenith.
- : a line of thought or action or a tendency or inclination: the direction of contemporary thought.
- : Usually directions. instruction or guidance for making, using, etc.: directions for baking a cake.
- : order; command.
- : management; control; guidance; supervision: a company under good direction.
- : a directorate.
- : the name and address of the intended recipient as written on a letter, package, etc.
- : decisions in a stage or film production as to stage business, speaking of lines, lighting, and general presentation.
- : the technique, act, or business of making such decisions, managing and training a cast of actors, etc.
- : the technique, act, or business of directing an orchestra, concert, or other musical presentation or group.
- : Music. a symbol or phrase that indicates in a score the proper tempo, style of performance, mood, etc.
- : a purpose or orientation toward a goal that serves to guide or motivate; focus: He doesn't seem to have any direction in life.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.
Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.
For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.
I went into the audition as Fericito, the Venezuelan percussionist, and then I did a self-defense expert.
Pleasure shoots magically in every direction like an explosion of sparks.
Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.
A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.
But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?