thumb
美 [θ?m]
英 [θ?m] 
- n.拇指;(手套的)拇指部分
- v.翹起拇指請(qǐng)求搭乘(過(guò)路汽車);示意請(qǐng)求搭便車;用拇指摸;用拇指捋
- 網(wǎng)絡(luò)大拇指;大姆指;大母指
詞形變化
復(fù)數(shù):thumbs 現(xiàn)在分詞:thumbing 過(guò)去式:thumbed 反義詞
同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | 拇指the short thick finger at the side of the hand, slightly apart from the other four |
| She still sucks her thumb when she's worried. 她在憂慮時(shí)仍然會(huì)吸吮大拇指。 |
2. | (手套的)拇指部分the part of a glove that covers the thumb |
| There's a hole in the thumb. 手套的拇指上有個(gè)窟窿。 |
1. | [i][t] 翹起拇指請(qǐng)求搭乘(過(guò)路汽車);示意請(qǐng)求搭便車to make a signal with your thumb to passing drivers to ask them to stop and take you somewhere |
| He had thumbed all across Europe. 他搭乘便車游遍了歐洲。 |
| We managed to thumb a lift with a lorry driver. 我們豎起拇指招呼過(guò)路的卡車司機(jī)讓我們搭上便車。 |
| We managed to thumb a ride with a truck driver. 我們豎起拇指招呼過(guò)路的卡車司機(jī)讓我們搭上便車。 |
2. | [t] ~ sth (+ adv./prep.) 用拇指摸;用拇指捋to touch or move sth with your thumb |
| She thumbed off the safety catch of her pistol. 她用拇指打開了手槍的保險(xiǎn)栓。 |
習(xí)慣用語(yǔ)
be all (fingers and) thumbs
笨手笨腳;笨拙;手指不靈活to be awkward with your hands so that you drop things or are unable to do sth
hold thumbs
希望(計(jì)劃)成功;期望如愿以償to hope that your plans will be successful or that sth will take place in the way that you want it to
| Let's hold thumbs that you get the job. 我們期望你如愿得到這份工作啊。 |
thumbs up/down
翹拇指(表示接受或成功);拇指向下(表示拒絕或不成功)used to show that sth has been accepted/rejected or that it is/is not a success
| Their proposals were given the thumbs down . 他們的建議遭到拒絕。 |
| It looks like it's thumbs up for their latest album. 看樣子他們的最新歌曲專輯成功了。 |
under sbs thumb
完全受人支配;受制于人completely controlled by sb
thumb your nose at sb/sth
嗤之以鼻;蔑視to make a rude sign with your thumb on your nose; to show that you have no respect for sb/sth
| The company just thumbs its nose at the legislation on pollution. 這家公司完全不把污染立法放在眼里。 |
英漢解釋
n. | |
v. | 1. 翻閱,用拇指翻臟[翻壞](書頁(yè)等);反復(fù)讀 |
英英解釋
例句
i love it here, but dad always used to tell me how happy he was to have gotten away, out from under the thumb of his raising.
我熱愛這片土地,但是父親過(guò)去總是告訴我能夠離開那里,不再被這片土地養(yǎng)育著,讓他歡欣鼓舞。
If it were possible to press your thumb forward an inch or two, deep into your body, you would be touching one of your SI joints.
如果可以,試著拇指用點(diǎn)力往里面按1、2英寸,你就能觸碰到你的骶髂關(guān)節(jié)了。
I particularly like to hold the back of her neck and then gently stroke her cheek with my thumb. . . while looking into her eyes.
我特別喜歡握著她脖子的后面然后用大拇指撫摸她的臉頰,同時(shí)注視著她的眼睛。
All other things being the same, we seem to use a rule of thumb "if it sounds familiar, it is more likely to be true. "
所有事情都是如此,我們似乎依賴某種經(jīng)驗(yàn)法則,“如果常常聽到,那它更有可能是真的?!?/jz>
A good rule of thumb is to cut the size of your current backlog to contain no more requirements than could be completed in two releases.
一個(gè)感覺(jué)非常妙的方法是消減您當(dāng)前積壓的規(guī)模,使其僅僅包含在兩次發(fā)布中就可以完成的需求。
But a few days later, the woodcutter took them to the forest again-and this time, Tom Thumb had no pebbles to help them find the way back.
可是,過(guò)了幾天,伐木人再次把他們帶進(jìn)了森林。這次小湯姆沒(méi)有小石子,他們找不到回家的路。
weighing more than 110 carats - roughly the size of a woman's thumb - has gone on display in London's Natural History Museum.
一顆重達(dá)110克拉的金黃色大鉆石——與女子拇指一般大——日前在倫敦自然歷史博物館展出。
Tom is unwilling to be under his father's thumb, so he decided to leave his home.
湯姆不愿意受他爸爸的控制,所以決定離家出走。
"Sounds reasonable, " Cal said. The sopped beer label curled around his thumb. "You want to see a movie? "
“聽起來(lái)挺合理的,”卡爾說(shuō)。浸濕的啤酒標(biāo)簽卷在他的拇指上?!?c>你想看部電影么?”
With the Apple Click Wheel, iPod is very easy to use; you don't have to take your thumb away from the wheel when you operate it.
配有iPod蘋果觸控式按鍵轉(zhuǎn)盤,所以非常容易使用。在操作時(shí),你的拇指甚至不用離開這個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)盤。
Many years later, if he could thumb through these works, he would be tightly embraced by a happy and content feeling.
很多年以后,當(dāng)他再次翻閱這批作品的時(shí)候,一種充斥著滿足感的幸福之情會(huì)緊緊擁抱著他。
This creates our model with a thumb field (for a thumbnail picture), a caption, and a Boolean indicating if it is in our hypothetical set.
這會(huì)創(chuàng)建一個(gè)模型,其中包含一個(gè)thumb字段(用于縮略圖)、一個(gè)caption和一個(gè)Boolean(表示照片是否在照片集中)。
Second part of the belly-press in the chin with the thumb hole, and then move up to the bottom of the ear.
第二部分腹部壓在與拇指孔下巴,然后移動(dòng)到耳的底部。
Injection density is often used as a rule of thumb to estimate the difficulty of curing resonant combustion.
時(shí)常把噴射密度作為一個(gè)經(jīng)驗(yàn)法則來(lái)估計(jì)解決共振燃燒問(wèn)題時(shí)的困難。
The index, middle, and ring finger are the most frequently involved digits, while the thumb is often spared entirely.
示指、中指和環(huán)指是最常累及的手指,而拇指常完全不受累。
In other words, "we don't want the company that we have under our patent thumb to be able to turn the tables" .
換句話說(shuō),“我們不希望依靠我們專利的這些公司能夠扭轉(zhuǎn)劣勢(shì)”。
HE weighs just a few ounces. You can put him in a coffee cup. Tom Thumb is a Chihuahua in Britain. He may be the smallest dog in the world.
他體重僅幾盎司你可以把他放在咖啡杯湯姆大拇是在英國(guó)的吉娃娃…他可能是最小的狗在成為世界第二大貿(mào)易國(guó)。
As a rule of thumb, you can increase the size of the buffer pools as long as you get a corresponding increase of the bufferpool hit ratio.
首要原則是,只要能夠獲取一個(gè)對(duì)應(yīng)的緩沖池命中率增加,就可以增加緩沖池的大小。
So Tom unwound the thread from one of his needles, and each boy pricked the ball of his thumb and squeezed out a drop of blood.
于是湯姆拿出一根針,去掉了線。兩個(gè)孩子各自往大拇指上戳了一下,然后擠出兩滴血來(lái)。
thumb and forefinger picked it up and brought it to the dealer's eyes and twirled it in the air.
拇指和食指把它撿了起來(lái),拿到珍珠商的眼前,在空中滴溜溜地轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)著。
Maggie was curled into a little heap, with her thumb in her mouth and her rag-decorated hair all around her.
麥琪彎得象只小蝦,大拇指含在嘴巴里,滿頭披散著她那用破布條裝飾起來(lái)的頭發(fā)。
He walked to the window, snapping his thumb and middle finger and looking eagerly at the floor.
他走到窗前,彈著大拇指和中指,專心看著地板。
He stood out like a sore thumb.
他表現(xiàn)得十分引人注目。
The man swore when the hammer hit his thumb.
那個(gè)男人咒罵起來(lái),他的拇指讓錘子砸了一下。
The bank's bosses argue that the cost of coming under the thumb of the British government would have been higher still.
銀行的老板爭(zhēng)辯說(shuō)如果巴克萊銀行受到政府的支配,那么其耗費(fèi)可能更高。
Granted, this is usually specific to the business domain, but this rule of thumb seems to hold up in most circumstances.
當(dāng)然,上述討論通常特定于商業(yè)領(lǐng)域,但這種經(jīng)驗(yàn)之談往往在很多情況下出現(xiàn)。
He took it up, rolled it quickly between thumb and forefinger, and then cast it contemptuously back into the tray.
他撿起珍珠,迅速地在拇指和食指之間轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)著,然后輕蔑地把它扔回到托盤里。
Her arms are just about the right length and she may be trying to move them even getting so far as to get her thumb into her mouth to suck.
她的手臂剛好長(zhǎng)到合適的尺寸,她可能正試著移動(dòng)它們呢,甚至會(huì)把大拇指放到嘴里去吮吸。
It is not rare to run into the image of a child with his thumb in his mouth against the blurred light of an ultrasound.
一個(gè)小孩的圖像與他的拇指在他的嘴巴里反抗著對(duì)超音波模糊的光線并不是稀奇的。
He pulled the door just as someone else pushed it in, injuring the tendons in his thumb.
他拉開門的時(shí)候正好某人在推門,導(dǎo)致了自己拇指的肌腱受傷。
As a rough rule of thumb, this makes Chinese labor at least double the cost of that in Indochina.
作為一個(gè)大體的經(jīng)驗(yàn),這使得中國(guó)勞工至少一倍,在印度支那的成本。
There were two children down with the measles, his wife was ailing, and he had a whitlow on his thumb.
他有兩個(gè)孩子正在出麻疹,他老婆也在害病,他自己大姆指上又長(zhǎng)了個(gè)疔。
If you liked this post, please give it a thumb up in StumbleUpon.
如果你喜愛這篇文章,豎起大拇指。
Gently squeeze the outer lip between the thumb and index finger, and slide up and down the entire length of each lip.
在拇指和食指之間,溫柔的擠壓外陰唇,沿著每一片唇的長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)唇瓣滑上滑下。
You're going to be able to write. If I could just keep you under my thumb for four or five weeks I think I could make something out of you.
你是有能力從事寫作的。我想只要經(jīng)我指點(diǎn)四五周,你必將有所成就。
"I've never used these for food, " she said, kneading it between her index finger and thumb, a chef inspecting an unfamiliar piece of meat.
“我沒(méi)用過(guò)這些食材,”她拿食指和拇指捏著,像位大廚檢視不熟悉的肉片。
On Daping mountain, the bamboo grows as thick as a man's thumb and is closely spaced like the bars of a cage.
大坪山的竹子有人的拇指粗,相互間密密麻麻,像鳥籠的條杠。
The pair of sticks is maneuvered in one hand, between the thumb and fingers, and used to pick up pieces of food.
一雙筷子用一只手操作,置于拇指和手指之間,用以夾起塊片食物。
A popular rule of thumb in the 1990s was that countries should be able to cover a year's worth of debt obligations.
20世紀(jì)90年代非常盛行的經(jīng)驗(yàn)之談是國(guó)家應(yīng)有能力償還一年期的債務(wù)。
Maggie was curled into a little heap, with her thumb in her mouth and her rag-decorated hair all around her.
麥琪彎得象只小蝦,大拇指含在嘴巴里,滿頭披散著她那用破布條裝飾起來(lái)的頭發(fā)。
Amanda: Look at those carrots. They still have mud caked all over them. I wish I could grow stuff, but I've never had much of a green thumb.
看那些胡蘿卜。它們上面還有泥土。我希望我也能種一些,但是我沒(méi)有一點(diǎn)園藝的才能。
Different people respond differently, but it's a good rule of thumb not to take them for more than two days in a week.
但依照以往的經(jīng)驗(yàn)來(lái)說(shuō)一個(gè)星期最好不要超過(guò)兩天。
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
既使沒(méi)有任何其他的證據(jù),光是大拇指就足夠讓我相信上帝的存在。
One of the cuts was to the base of his thumb that reached down to the bone but had no time to heal before his death.
在削減之一是他的拇指基礎(chǔ),達(dá)成到骨頭,但沒(méi)有時(shí)間來(lái)愈合生前。