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
- 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。 - 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。 - Over time, this script has saved me dozens of hours that I would have spent manually twiddling with an FTP GUI, or constantly changing directories via an annoying command-line FTP program.
随着时间的推移,这个脚本已经为我节省了数十个小时,我不再需要手工使用FTPGUI,也不需要通过一个恼人的FTP命令行程序频繁的变换目录。 - He just sat there, twiddling his fingers.
他只是闲坐在那里,捏弄自己的手指头。 - There are those like me who is left twiddling our thumbs, helpless and feeling hopeless.
很多人像我一样感到无助,因为我们能做的仅仅是捐款。 - 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。 - Nor do banks want to be seen to be the first to make lay-offs, which amounts to a public confession that its bankers are twiddling their thumbs.
也没有一家银行想第一个裁员,因为这意味着公开承认其员工无所事事。 - The prospect of waiting around just twiddling his thumbs was appalling
想到将要无所事事,他就非常害怕。 - 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。 - They are either smoking, or they're twiddling on their BlackBerries, and we have an example: if you have a really stressful job, like president of the United States, you may feel the need to do both.
他们要么吸烟,要么玩黑莓。举例来说:如果你的工作压力极大,比如担任美国总统,或许你会觉得这两个你都需要。