thumb
美 [θʌm]
英 [θʌm] 
- n.拇指;(手套的)拇指部分
- v.翘起拇指请求搭乘(过路汽车);示意请求搭便车;用拇指摸;用拇指捋
- 网络大拇指;大姆指;大母指
词形变化
复数:thumbs 现在分词:thumbing 过去式:thumbed 反义词
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英汉双解
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. 她在忧虑时仍然会吸吮大拇指。 |
2. | (手套的)拇指部分the part of a glove that covers the thumb |
| There's a hole in the thumb. 手套的拇指上有个窟窿。 |
1. | [i][t] 翘起拇指请求搭乘(过路汽车);示意请求搭便车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. 他搭乘便车游遍了欧洲。 |
| We managed to thumb a lift with a lorry driver. 我们竖起拇指招呼过路的卡车司机让我们搭上便车。 |
| We managed to thumb a ride with a truck driver. 我们竖起拇指招呼过路的卡车司机让我们搭上便车。 |
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. 她用拇指打开了手枪的保险栓。 |
习惯用语
be all (fingers and) thumbs
笨手笨脚;笨拙;手指不灵活to be awkward with your hands so that you drop things or are unable to do sth
hold thumbs
希望(计划)成功;期望如愿以偿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. 我们期望你如愿得到这份工作啊。 |
thumbs up/down
翘拇指(表示接受或成功);拇指向下(表示拒绝或不成功)used to show that sth has been accepted/rejected or that it is/is not a success
| Their proposals were given the thumbs down . 他们的建议遭到拒绝。 |
| It looks like it's thumbs up for their latest album. 看样子他们的最新歌曲专辑成功了。 |
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;蔑视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. 这家公司完全不把污染立法放在眼里。 |
英汉解释
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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.
我热爱这片土地,但是父亲过去总是告诉我能够离开那里,不再被这片土地养育着,让他欢欣鼓舞。
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,试着拇指用点力往里面按1、2英寸,你就能触碰到你的骶髂关节了。
I particularly like to hold the back of her neck and then gently stroke her cheek with my thumb. . . while looking into her eyes.
我特别喜欢握着她脖子的后面然后用大拇指抚摸她的脸颊,同时注视着她的眼睛。
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,我们似乎依赖某种经验法则,“如果常常听到,那它更有可能是真的。”
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.
一个感觉非常妙的方法是消减您当前积压的规模,使其仅仅包含在两次发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,过了几天,伐木人再次把他们带进了森林。这次小汤姆没有小石子,他们找不到回家的路。
weighing more than 110 carats - roughly the size of a woman's thumb - has gone on display in London's Natural History Museum.
一颗重达110克拉的金黄色大钻石——与女子拇指一般大——日前在伦敦自然历史博物馆展出。
Tom is unwilling to be under his father's thumb, so he decided to leave his home.
汤姆不愿意受他爸爸的控制,所以决定离家出走。
"Sounds reasonable, " Cal said. The sopped beer label curled around his thumb. "You want to see a movie? "
“听起来挺合理的,”卡尔说。浸湿的啤酒标签卷在他的拇指上。“你想看部电影么?”
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苹果触控式按键转盘,所以非常容易使用。在操作时,你的拇指甚至不用离开这个转盘。
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,当他再次翻阅这批作品的时候,一种充斥着满足感的幸福之情会紧紧拥抱着他。
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.
这会创建一个模型,其中包含一个thumb字段(用于缩略图)、一个caption和一个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.
第二部分腹部压在与拇指孔下巴,然后移动到耳的底部。
Injection density is often used as a rule of thumb to estimate the difficulty of curing resonant combustion.
时常把喷射密度作为一个经验法则来估计解决共振燃烧问题时的困难。
The index, middle, and ring finger are the most frequently involved digits, while the thumb is often spared entirely.
示指、中指和环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" .
换句话说,“我们不希望依靠我们专利的这些公司能够扭转劣势”。
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.
他体重仅几盎司你可以把他放在咖啡杯汤姆大拇是在英国的吉娃娃…他可能是最小的狗在成为世界第二大贸易国。
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.
首要原则是,只要能够获取一个对应的缓冲池命中率增加,就可以增加缓冲池的大小。
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.
于是汤姆拿出一根针,去掉了线。两个孩子各自往大拇指上戳了一下,然后挤出两滴血来。
thumb and forefinger picked it up and brought it to the dealer's eyes and twirled it in the air.
拇指和食指把它捡了起来,拿到珍珠商的眼前,在空中滴溜溜地转动着。
Maggie was curled into a little heap, with her thumb in her mouth and her rag-decorated hair all around her.
麦琪弯得象只小虾,大拇指含在嘴巴里,满头披散着她那用破布条装饰起来的头发。
He walked to the window, snapping his thumb and middle finger and looking eagerly at the floor.
他走到窗前,弹着大拇指和中指,专心看着地板。
He stood out like a sore thumb.
他表现得十分引人注目。
The man swore when the hammer hit his thumb.
那个男人咒骂起来,他的拇指让锤子砸了一下。
The bank's bosses argue that the cost of coming under the thumb of the British government would have been higher still.
银行的老板争辩说如果巴克莱银行受到政府的支配,那么其耗费可能更高。
Granted, this is usually specific to the business domain, but this rule of thumb seems to hold up in most circumstances.
当然,上述讨论通常特定于商业领域,但这种经验之谈往往在很多情况下出现。
He took it up, rolled it quickly between thumb and forefinger, and then cast it contemptuously back into the tray.
他捡起珍珠,迅速地在拇指和食指之间转动着,然后轻蔑地把它扔回到托盘里。
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.
她的手臂刚好长到合适的尺寸,她可能正试着移动它们呢,甚至会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.
一个小孩的图像与他的拇指在他的嘴巴里反抗著对超音波模糊的光线并不是稀奇的。
He pulled the door just as someone else pushed it in, injuring the tendons in his thumb.
他拉开门的时候正好某人在推门,导致了自己拇指的肌腱受伤。
As a rough rule of thumb, this makes Chinese labor at least double the cost of that in Indochina.
作为一个大体的经验,这使得中国劳工至少一倍,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.
他有两个孩子正在出麻疹,他老婆也在害病,他自己大姆指上又长了个疔。
If you liked this post, please give it a thumb up in StumbleUpon.
如果你喜爱这篇文章,竖起大拇指。
Gently squeeze the outer lip between the thumb and index finger, and slide up and down the entire length of each lip.
在拇指和食指之间,温柔的挤压外阴唇,沿着每一片唇的长长唇瓣滑上滑下。
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.
你是有能力从事写作的。我想只要经我指点四五周,你必将有所成就。
"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.
“我没用过这些食材,”她拿食指和拇指捏着,像位大厨检视不熟悉的肉片。
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,相互间密密麻麻,像鸟笼的条杠。
The pair of sticks is maneuvered in one hand, between the thumb and fingers, and used to pick up pieces of food.
一双筷子用一只手操作,置于拇指和手指之间,用以夹起块片食物。
A popular rule of thumb in the 1990s was that countries should be able to cover a year's worth of debt obligations.
20世纪90年代非常盛行的经验之谈是国家应有能力偿还一年期的债务。
Maggie was curled into a little heap, with her thumb in her mouth and her rag-decorated hair all around her.
麦琪弯得象只小虾,大拇指含在嘴巴里,满头披散着她那用破布条装饰起来的头发。
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.
看那些胡萝卜。它们上面还有泥土。我希望我也能种一些,但是我没有一点园艺的才能。
Different people respond differently, but it's a good rule of thumb not to take them for more than two days in a week.
但依照以往的经验来说一个星期最好不要超过两天。
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
既使没有任何其他的证据,光是大拇指就足够让我相信上帝的存在。
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.
在削减之一是他的拇指基础,达成到骨头,但没有时间来愈合生前。