self-possession

Definitions

Common Collocations

• 1.remarkable self-possession非凡的沉着
• 2.maintain self-possession保持自制力
• 3.air of self-possession泰然自若的气度
• 4.lose one's self-possession失去镇定

Example Sentences

• 1.

  Her self-possession in the face of criticism earned her the respect of her colleagues.

• 2.

  He admired her self-possession during the crisis, never once losing her composure.

• 3.

  Years of experience had given the surgeon an air of complete self-possession in the operating room.