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
- 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。 - After all, no amount of twiddling with Basel rules or pious statements about bonuses will ever scare a financier as much as the thought of jail.
毕竟,再多的巴塞尔协议或虔诚的奖金声明,都不会比想到牢狱之灾更让金融家感到恐惧。 - He began twiddling with his pen.
他开始转弄起钢笔来。 - He just sat there, twiddling his fingers.
他只是闲坐在那里,捏弄自己的手指头。 - 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? - 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。 - 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。 - He was twiddling with his watch-chain while he was listening to me.
他边听我讲边弄着表链。 - There's no point in sitting here twiddling our thumbs.
我们在这儿瞎坐着是没有的。 - 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。