twiddling
英 [ˈtwɪdlɪŋ]
美 [ˈtwɪdlɪŋ]
v. (常因紧张或无聊)旋弄,摆弄,捻弄(物件)
twiddle的现在分词
复数:twiddlings 现在分词:twiddling
柯林斯词典
- VERB 旋弄;捻弄;摆弄
If youtwiddlesomething, you twist it or turn it quickly with your fingers.- He twiddled a knob on the dashboard...
他转动着仪表板上的一个旋钮。 - She had sat there twiddling nervously with the clasp of her handbag.
她坐在那里紧张地摆弄着手提包的扣钩。
- He twiddled a knob on the dashboard...
- totwiddleyourthumbs→ see:thumb
双语例句
- He could quite happily spend hours twiddling with the knobs on his radio.
他可以毫不厌倦地花上几个钟头旋弄他收音机上的旋钮。 - He was twiddling with his watch-chain while he was listening to me.
他边听我讲边弄着表链。 - With the elimination of twiddling hempen threads by hand, Masidun is disappearing gradually because of aging and being destroyed.
但随着手工绩麻的淘汰,麻丝墩正在逐渐老化、损毁和消失。 - He just sat there, twiddling his fingers.
他只是闲坐在那里,捏弄自己的手指头。 - Sometimes they had nothing to do in the office and just sat twiddling their thumbs.
有时候办公室里无事可做,他们就坐着无聊地打发时间。 - There's no point in sitting here twiddling our thumbs.
我们在这儿瞎坐着是没有的。 - Otherwise you will get wasted resources, people twiddling their thumbs or maybe doing work without approval.
否则你就是在浪费资源,人们无所事事或者就是在没有批准交付物的情况下工作。 - She finds a secretary's job very boring-some days there's almost no work for her at all, and she just sits there twiddling her thumbs.
她觉得当秘书很乏味&有时几乎无事可做,因此只是坐在那里抚弄大拇指玩。 - Grandet sat twiddling his thumbs, lost in calculation the results of which were to astonish Saumur one day.
葛朗台坐在一边把大拇指绕动了四小时,想着明天会教索漠全城吃惊的计算,出神了。 - She sat twiddling her handkerchief, saying not a word.
她手里搓弄着手绢,一言不发。