twiddling

英 [ˈtwɪdlɪŋ]

美 [ˈtwɪdlɪŋ]

v.  (常因紧张或无聊)旋弄，摆弄，捻弄(物件)
twiddle的现在分词

复数：twiddlings　现在分词：twiddling　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 旋弄;捻弄;摆弄
  If youtwiddlesomething, you twist it or turn it quickly with your fingers.
  1. He twiddled a knob on the dashboard...
     他转动着仪表板上的一个旋钮。
  2. She had sat there twiddling nervously with the clasp of her handbag.
     她坐在那里紧张地摆弄着手提包的扣钩。
• totwiddleyourthumbs→ see:thumb

双语例句

• Sometimes they had nothing to do in the office and just sat twiddling their thumbs.
  有时候办公室里无事可做，他们就坐着无聊地打发时间。
• 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。
• He began twiddling with his pen.
  他开始转弄起钢笔来。
• Grandet sat twiddling his thumbs, lost in calculation the results of which were to astonish Saumur one day.
  葛朗台坐在一边把大拇指绕动了四小时，想着明天会教索漠全城吃惊的计算，出神了。
• I'm just going to be hanging around twiddling my thumbs
  我只会闲呆着，什么事也不做。
• 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。thumbsdown大拇指朝下。
• She sat twiddling her handkerchief, saying not a word.
  她手里搓弄着手绢，一言不发。
• 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。
• 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。
• There are those like me who is left twiddling our thumbs, helpless and feeling hopeless.
  很多人像我一样感到无助，因为我们能做的仅仅是捐款。