thumb

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  

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英汉双解

n.
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。
v.
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

n.
1.
拇指
2.
【建】馒形饰
v.
1.
翻阅,用拇指翻脏[翻坏](书页等);反复读
2.
笨手笨脚地做;拙劣地弹(钢琴等)
3.
〈美口〉翘起拇指要求搭乘

英英解释

n.

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.

热爱土地但是父亲过去总是告诉能够离开那里不再土地养育欢欣鼓舞

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.

如果可以拇指里面1、2英寸触碰到关节

I particularly like to hold the back of her neck and then gently stroke her cheek with my thumb. . . while looking into her eyes.

特别喜欢脖子后面然后大拇指抚摸脸颊同时注视眼睛

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. "

所有事情如此我们似乎依赖经验法则,“如果常常听到有可能。”

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.

一个感觉非常方法消减当前积压规模使仅仅包含发布就可以完成需求

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.

可是几天伐木再次他们森林这次汤姆没有石子他们回家

weighing more than 110 carats - roughly the size of a woman's thumb - has gone on display in London's Natural History Museum.

110克拉金黄色钻石——女子拇指一般——日前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.

汤姆愿意爸爸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? "

起来合理,”卡尔浸湿啤酒标签拇指。“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.

iPod苹果按键转盘所以非常容易使用操作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.

很多以后再次翻阅作品时候一种充斥满足幸福紧紧拥抱

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.

创建一个模型其中包含thumb字段用于缩略)、一个caption一个Boolean表示照片是否照片集中)。

Second part of the belly-press in the chin with the thumb hole, and then move up to the bottom of the ear.

第二部分腹部拇指下巴然后移动底部

Injection density is often used as a rule of thumb to estimate the difficulty of curing resonant combustion.

时常喷射密度作为一个经验法则估计解决共振燃烧问题困难

The index, middle, and ring finger are the most frequently involved digits, while the thumb is often spared entirely.

中指累及手指拇指完全受累

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,“我们希望依靠我们专利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.

体重盎司可以咖啡汤姆大英国吉娃娃可能最小成为世界第二贸易

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.

首要原则只要能够获取一个对应缓冲命中率增加可以增加缓冲大小

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.

于是汤姆去掉线孩子各自大拇指一下然后挤出

thumb and forefinger picked it up and brought it to the dealer's eyes and twirled it in the air.

拇指食指起来拿到珍珠眼前空中滴溜溜转动着

Maggie was curled into a little heap, with her thumb in her mouth and her rag-decorated hair all around her.

麦琪大拇指嘴巴披散破布条装饰起来头发

He walked to the window, snapping his thumb and middle finger and looking eagerly at the floor.

大拇指中指专心地板

He stood out like a sore thumb.

表现十分引人注目

The man swore when the hammer hit his thumb.

那个男人咒骂起来拇指锤子一下

The bank's bosses argue that the cost of coming under the thumb of the British government would have been higher still.

银行老板争辩说如果银行受到政府支配那么耗费可能

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商业领域这种经验之谈往往很多情况下出现

He took it up, rolled it quickly between thumb and forefinger, and then cast it contemptuously back into the tray.

珍珠迅速拇指食指之间转动然后轻蔑回到托盘

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.

手臂刚好合适尺寸可能试着移动它们甚至大拇指吮吸

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.

一个小孩图像拇指嘴巴反抗音波模糊光线并不是稀奇

He pulled the door just as someone else pushed it in, injuring the tendons in his thumb.

开门时候正好某人导致自己拇指肌腱受伤

As a rough rule of thumb, this makes Chinese labor at least double the cost of that in Indochina.

作为一个大体经验使得中国劳工至少印度支那成本

There were two children down with the measles, his wife was ailing, and he had a whitlow on his thumb.

孩子正在麻疹老婆害病自己大姆

If you liked this post, please give it a thumb up in StumbleUpon.

如果喜爱文章竖起大拇指

Gently squeeze the outer lip between the thumb and index finger, and slide up and down the entire length of each lip.

拇指食指之间温柔挤压外阴沿着一片长长

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.

能力从事写作只要指点四五必将有所成就

"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.

没用这些,”食指拇指检视熟悉肉片

On Daping mountain, the bamboo grows as thick as a man's thumb and is closely spaced like the bars of a cage.

坪山竹子有人拇指相互密密麻麻鸟笼条杠

The pair of sticks is maneuvered in one hand, between the thumb and fingers, and used to pick up pieces of food.

筷子操作置于拇指手指之间用以块片食物

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年代非常盛行经验之谈国家应有能力偿还年期债务

Maggie was curled into a little heap, with her thumb in her mouth and her rag-decorated hair all around her.

麦琪大拇指嘴巴披散破布条装饰起来头发

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.

那些胡萝卜它们上面泥土希望一些但是没有一点园艺才能

Different people respond differently, but it's a good rule of thumb not to take them for more than two days in a week.

依照以往经验来说一个星期最好不要超过

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

使没有任何其他证据光是大拇指足够相信上帝存在

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.

削减之一拇指基础达成骨头没有时间愈合生前