词汇 | twiddle |
释义 | twiddle verb [ I or T ] uk/ˈtwɪd.əl/ us/ˈtwɪd.əl/ (尤指无聊地反复用手指)摆弄,捻弄,旋弄 to move something repeatedly between your fingers, especially without any purpose She was twiddling (with) a pencil/her hair. 她在摆弄铅笔/头发玩。 Twiddle a dial/knob on a radio in the city and you may hear voices speaking Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, or Russian. 在这座城市里,如果旋弄收音机的旋钮,你可能会收听到西班牙语、汉语、葡萄牙语或俄语。 Idiom twiddle your thumbsidiom (等待之际)闲着无聊 to do nothing for a period of time, usually while you are waiting for something to happen I arrived early for the meeting so I was twiddling my thumbs for half an hour. 我开会来早了,百无聊赖地等了半小时。 twiddle noun [ C ] mainly UK uk/ˈtwɪd.əl/ us/ˈtwɪd.əl/ 摆弄,捻弄;旋动,扭动 an act of turning something with the fingers At the twiddle of a knob the operators can focus on a tiny amount of airspace or scan the whole area. 只要旋动旋钮,操作者就可局部观察一小块领空,或者扫描整个区域。 |
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