twiddling
美 [?tw?d(?)l] 
英 ['tw?d(?)l]
- v.玩弄；捻弄；花式彈奏；〈英方〉忙于瑣事
- n.捻；波狀線
- 網絡倒板
詞形變化
第三人稱單數：twiddles 現在分詞：twiddling 過去式：twiddled 同義詞
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
He was sitting all over a small rocking chair, twiddling his thumbs and smiling, with his feet on the fender.
他整個身軀坐到搖椅上，邊捻弄著手指邊微笑，雙腳擱在爐圍上。
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.
她覺得當秘書很乏味――有時幾乎無事可做，因此只是坐在那里撫弄大拇指玩。
Various page elements like images may have to time out, as well, so you could be stuck twiddling your thumbs waiting for a site to resolve.
各種各樣的網頁元素，如圖片，可能一樣要等待超時，因此你可能需要在桌面敲著手指來等待網站的解析。
After twiddling your thumbs for too long, you're ready to kick some butt and jump back into the game called love.
雙雙你無所事事（空窗）很久啦，現在你開始為自己打氣，準備重返愛情游戲了。
You will see a dealer in barrel business sitting at his door twiddling his thumbs as he gossips with a neighbour.
你也可看到一個做酒桶生意的商人，兩只大拇指繞來繞去，坐在門口跟鄰居談天。
Travelling by plane usually conjures up images of a few too many hours spent twiddling thumbs in chairs with unsettling stains.
乘飛機旅行常常使人浮現出種種畫面：不斷擺弄拇指，在座位上左扭右扭打發漫長的時間。
he had plucked a blue floweret , and was twiddling it against the sky.
他折了一朵小藍花，將它對著天空轉來轉去。
Sitting at home twiddling my thumbs was the last thing I wanted to do.
坐在家里撫弄自己的手指是我最不想做的事情。
"You did ask to be informed when he arrived, " said John, twiddling with his corded belt.
“是你自己說當他來的時候要通知你的。”強尼玩弄著他的領帶說。
After backing down from that initiative, an adviser says, Mr Nazarbayev would have looked foolish just twiddling his thumbs.
在那次失利后，一位提議者說，如果納扎爾巴耶夫先生閑著旋弄手指的話會顯得很愚蠢。
THE financial crisis means that most lawyers and bankers specialising in mergers and acquisitions are twiddling their thumbs.
金融危機已經使大多數從事并購的律師和銀行家們變的無所事是。
Children and young men compete for space, maniacally twiddling brightly colored controls on machines that are leftovers from another era.
兒童和少年們正狂躁的旋轉著明亮的彩色控制桿，盡管這些機器在其他地方不過只是歷史的陳跡。
He could quite happily spend hours twiddling with the knobs on his radio.
他可以毫不厭倦地花上幾個鐘頭旋弄他收音機上的旋鈕。
She sat twiddling the ring on her finger.
她坐在那兒捻弄手指上的戒指。
Until I can get the thumbs up for my project, I'm just sitting around twiddling my thumbs.
在我的項目得到批準前我只能坐著無所事事。
Why should I be left alone holding the baby while all the boys are sitting around and twiddling their thumbs?
為什么這些苦差事使得我一個人干而男孩子們卻懶洋洋地坐在那兒，閑得沒事干？
Anyway, I was sitting there on the bench with my head down, twiddling the ring, when suddenly someone clapped me on the back.
話說回來，我低頭坐在長椅上正玩弄戒指，突然有人拍了拍我的背。
Otherwise you will get wasted resources, people twiddling their thumbs or maybe doing work without approval.
否則你就是在浪費資源，人們無所事事或者就是在沒有批準交付物的情況下工作。
"In India we are just twiddling our thumbs and waiting for the opportunities to emerge, " the executive says.
“在印度，我們閑極無聊，坐等機會浮現。”這位主管說道。
But they're the ones who are sitting at their desks, twiddling their thumbs and doing pro bono to keep busy, " the lawyer said. "
可現在他們閑得坐在辦公桌前玩手指，只有這些免費咨詢能讓他們有點事情做。
The cat is twiddling with its tail.
貓在玩弄自己的尾巴。
What did you do all this morning? I don't enjoy seeing you twiddling your thumbs.
你今天一早上都干嘛了！我不想看你閑得無聊。
This is good news for me as when my hands are not on to the keyboard, one is twiddling with my hair.
這對我來說是大好消息。我的兩只手如果不在鍵盤上，肯定會有一只在撥弄頭發。
She saw Manya twiddling a young green chestnut leaf under her nose.
她看到瑪尼婭在鼻子底下捻弄著一片新綠的栗樹葉子。
Example: They kept the manager busy and left me twiddling my thumbs.
他們讓經理忙得不可開交，而置我于無所事事之中。
And the transformation of thumb-twiddling into typing!
然后拇指擺弄的變化開始打字！
Sometimes, yeah, but you also sit around twiddling your thumbs a lot, too.
嗯…但是有時候，你也是無所事事啊。
In this way he could steer to various biomorph forms by twiddling the gene dial.
以這種方法他可以通過擺弄基因刻度盤引導出各種生物形態。
With the elimination of twiddling hempen threads by hand, Masidun is disappearing gradually because of aging and being destroyed.
但隨著手工績麻的淘汰，麻絲墩正在逐漸老化、損毀和消失。
She sat twiddling her long , dark hair.
她坐著無聊地捻弄著烏黑的
I'm sitting around twiddling my thumbs.
我坐在那閑得無聊。
She sat twiddling her long and dark hair.
她坐著無聊地捻弄著烏黑的長發。
Long have you sat around twiddling your thumbs awaiting your KNOWING to be put into action.
長久以來你們圍坐著，無聊的玩弄著手指，等待著你們的“理解”進入行動。
Let's abstract away all the bit-twiddling and make the test look like a test should look (see Listing 7).
讓我們進一步簡化并抽象該測試，使其更像是一個測試（參見清單7）。
"Well, really I couldn't say, " I answered. He began twiddling his white mustache;
于是，他拈著發白的小胡子，也不看我，說道：“我明白。”
These "old girls" network are twiddling their thumbs, sitting there either gossiping or forming into groups talking about
這些娘們兒都閑得無聊，不是坐在那里說長道短，就是三五成群的談論別人家的“丑聞”
in the end we are just bits twiddling in the jaws of the virtual machine;
到最后我們只不過是在虛擬機的隘口搖擺不定的比特；
