thumbing
英 [ˈθʌmɪŋ]
美 [ˈθʌmɪŋ]
v. 翘起拇指请求搭乘(过路汽车); 示意请求搭便车; 用拇指摸; 用拇指捋
thumb的现在分词
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (大)拇指
Yourthumbis the short thick part on the side of your hand next to your four fingers.- She bit the tip of her left thumb, not looking at me.
她咬着左手的拇指尖,眼睛也不看我。
- She bit the tip of her left thumb, not looking at me.
- (手套的)拇指部分
Thethumbof a glove is the part which a person's thumb fits into. - VERB (站在路边,伸出手,拇指向上)请求搭便车,拦车
If youthumba lift orthumba ride, you stand by the side of the road holding out your thumb until a driver stops and gives you a lift.- It may interest you to know that a boy answering Rory's description thumbed a ride to Howth...
你或许会对这个消息感兴趣,有个和罗里描述的一模一样的小男孩搭便车到了霍斯。 - Thumbing a lift had once a carefree, easy-going image.
伸手搭便车曾经给人以轻松随意的形象。
- It may interest you to know that a boy answering Rory's description thumbed a ride to Howth...
- See also:well-thumbed
- PHRASE 扎眼;碍眼
If you say that someone or somethingsticks out like a sore thumborstands out like a sore thumb, you are emphasizing that they are very noticeable, usually because they are unusual or inappropriate.- Does the new housing stick out like a sore thumb or blend into its surroundings?...
这个新住宅区是显得有点扎眼,还是和环境融为一体? - In Japan a European stands out like a sore thumb.
欧洲人到了日本会极为惹眼。
- Does the new housing stick out like a sore thumb or blend into its surroundings?...
- PHRASE 无所事事;闲着无聊
If you say that someone istwiddlingtheirthumbs, you mean that they do not have anything to do and are waiting for something to happen.- 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。 - The Government cannot expect graduates to twiddle their thumbs on the dole.
政府不愿意看到毕业生领着救济金却什么也不干。
- The prospect of waiting around just twiddling his thumbs was appalling...
- PHRASE 在…控制下;深受…影响
If you areundersomeone'sthumb, you are under their control, or very heavily influenced by them.- I cannot tell you what pain I feel when I see how much my mother is under my father's thumb...
看见我母亲完完全全受我父亲的控制,我心里别提有多难受。 - She has Rachel firmly under her thumb.
她把雷切尔牢牢地抓在手心里。
- I cannot tell you what pain I feel when I see how much my mother is under my father's thumb...
- green thumb→ see:green
双语例句
- She was thumbing the dictionary.
她在翻字典。 - This new breed of bourgeois often develops an identity crisis thumbing their nose to Sanlitun and the "foreigners" who fill the bars, clubs and restaurants.
这帮新兴资产阶级们自命不凡,对三里屯的那些酒吧、夜店和餐厅嗤之以鼻,在他们眼里,去那些地方消费的‘‘同胞’’们俗不可耐。 - Navigating through content-rich pages," thumbing "from one Web site to another and back again will cease to be such a tedious exercise.
浏览网页上的丰富内容,在不同网站之间自由切换不用费吹灰之力。 - I think I found it long ago in a passage from the book, Genesis, which caught my eyes while I was thumbing through my Bible.
我想我很久以前在《起源》这本书的一段话中发现了答案,当我翻查圣经的时候注意到了它。 - Get out those old picture albums and start thumbing through them.
找出老照片并且开始翻阅。 - It is a thumbing of the nose at hegemony.
而是对霸权的蔑视。 - I was thumbing through an old magazine when a secretary came in to say that Mr Smith was ready to see me.
我正在翻阅一本旧杂志,一位秘书进来说史密斯先生等着见我。 - A man in the corner of the room was thumbing out a tune on an old piano.
在房间的角落,一个男人正在旧钢琴上用力地弹奏曲子。 - He had the drawer open and was thumbing through the files.
他打开抽屉,翻看着档案。 - His heart was thumbing as he approached the door.
当他快靠近门口的时候,心怦怦地跳得厉害。