twiddling
美 [ˈtwɪd(ə)l] 
英 ['twɪd(ə)l]
- v.玩弄；捻弄；花式弹奏；〈英方〉忙于琐事
- n.捻；波状线
- 网络倒板
词形变化
第三人称单数：twiddles 现在分词：twiddling 过去式：twiddled 同义词
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
He was sitting all over a small rocking chair, twiddling his thumbs and smiling, with his feet on the fender.
他整个身躯坐到摇椅上，边捻弄著手指边微笑，双脚搁在炉围上。
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.
她觉得当秘书很乏味――有时几乎无事可做，因此只是坐在那里抚弄大拇指玩。
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.
各种各样的网页元素，如图片，可能一样要等待超时，因此你可能需要在桌面敲着手指来等待网站的解析。
After twiddling your thumbs for too long, you're ready to kick some butt and jump back into the game called love.
双双你无所事事（空窗）很久啦，现在你开始为自己打气，准备重返爱情游戏了。
You will see a dealer in barrel business sitting at his door twiddling his thumbs as he gossips with a neighbour.
你也可看到一个做酒桶生意的商人，两只大拇指绕来绕去，坐在门口跟邻居谈天。
Travelling by plane usually conjures up images of a few too many hours spent twiddling thumbs in chairs with unsettling stains.
乘飞机旅行常常使人浮现出种种画面：不断摆弄拇指，在座位上左扭右扭打发漫长的时间。
he had plucked a blue floweret , and was twiddling it against the sky.
他折了一朵小蓝花，将它对着天空转来转去。
Sitting at home twiddling my thumbs was the last thing I wanted to do.
坐在家里抚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.
“是你自己说当他来的时候要通知你的。”强尼玩弄着他的领带说。
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，一位提议者说，如果纳扎尔巴耶夫先生闲着旋弄手指的话会显得很愚蠢。
THE financial crisis means that most lawyers and bankers specialising in mergers and acquisitions are twiddling their thumbs.
金融危机已经使大多数从事并购的律师和银行家们变的无所事是。
Children and young men compete for space, maniacally twiddling brightly colored controls on machines that are leftovers from another era.
儿童和少年们正狂躁的旋转着明亮的彩色控制杆，尽管这些机器在其他地方不过只是历史的陈迹。
He could quite happily spend hours twiddling with the knobs on his radio.
他可以毫不厌倦地花上几个钟头旋弄他收音机上的旋钮。
She sat twiddling the ring on her finger.
她坐在那儿捻弄手指上的戒指。
Until I can get the thumbs up for my project, I'm just sitting around twiddling my thumbs.
在我的项目得到批准前我只能坐着无所事事。
Why should I be left alone holding the baby while all the boys are sitting around and twiddling their thumbs?
为什么这些苦差事使得我一个人干而男孩子们却懒洋洋地坐在那儿，闲得没事干？
Anyway, I was sitting there on the bench with my head down, twiddling the ring, when suddenly someone clapped me on the back.
话说回来，我低头坐在长椅上正玩弄戒指，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.
否则你就是在浪费资源，人们无所事事或者就是在没有批准交付物的情况下工作。
"In India we are just twiddling our thumbs and waiting for the opportunities to emerge, " the executive says.
“在印度，我们闲极无聊，坐等机会浮现。”这位主管说道。
But they're the ones who are sitting at their desks, twiddling their thumbs and doing pro bono to keep busy, " the lawyer said. "
可现在他们闲得坐在办公桌前玩手指，只有这些免费咨询能让他们有点事情做。
The cat is twiddling with its tail.
猫在玩弄自己的尾巴。
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！我不想看你闲得无聊。
This is good news for me as when my hands are not on to the keyboard, one is twiddling with my hair.
这对我来说是大好消息。我的两只手如果不在键盘上，肯定会有一只在拨弄头发。
She saw Manya twiddling a young green chestnut leaf under her nose.
她看到玛尼娅在鼻子底下捻弄着一片新绿的栗树叶子。
Example: They kept the manager busy and left me twiddling my thumbs.
他们让经理忙得不可开交，而置我于无所事事之中。
And the transformation of thumb-twiddling into typing!
然后拇指摆弄的变化开始打字！
Sometimes, yeah, but you also sit around twiddling your thumbs a lot, too.
嗯…但是有时候，你也是无所事事啊。
In this way he could steer to various biomorph forms by twiddling the gene dial.
以这种方法他可以通过摆弄基因刻度盘引导出各种生物形态。
With the elimination of twiddling hempen threads by hand, Masidun is disappearing gradually because of aging and being destroyed.
但随着手工绩麻的淘汰，麻丝墩正在逐渐老化、损毁和消失。
She sat twiddling her long , dark hair.
她坐着无聊地捻弄着乌黑的
I'm sitting around twiddling my thumbs.
我坐在那闲得无聊。
She sat twiddling her long and dark hair.
她坐着无聊地捻弄着乌黑的长发。
Long have you sat around twiddling your thumbs awaiting your KNOWING to be put into action.
长久以来你们围坐着，无聊的玩弄着手指，等待着你们的“理解”进入行动。
Let's abstract away all the bit-twiddling and make the test look like a test should look (see Listing 7).
让我们进一步简化并抽象该测试，使其更像是一个测试（参见清单7）。
"Well, really I couldn't say, " I answered. He began twiddling his white mustache;
于是，他拈着发白的小胡子，也不看我，说道：“我明白。”
These "old girls" network are twiddling their thumbs, sitting there either gossiping or forming into groups talking about
这些娘们儿都闲得无聊，不是坐在那里说长道短，就是三五成群的谈论别人家的“丑闻”
in the end we are just bits twiddling in the jaws of the virtual machine;
到最后我们只不过是在虚拟机的隘口摇摆不定的比特；
