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
- Why should I be left alone holding the baby while all the boys are sitting around and twiddling their thumbs?
为什么这些苦差事都得我一个人干而男孩子们却懒洋洋地坐在那儿,闲得没事干? - I am sitting around twiddling my thumbs.
我坐在那里闲得无聊。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He had plucked a blue floweret, and was twiddling it against the sky.
他折了一朵小蓝花,将它对着天空转来转去。 - 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。 - They kept the manager busy and left me twiddling my thumbs.
他们让经理忙得不可开交,而置我于无所事事之中。thumbsdown大拇指朝下。 - He began twiddling with his pen.
他开始转弄起钢笔来。