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

• 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 sat twiddling her handkerchief, saying not a word.
  她手里搓弄着手绢，一言不发。
• He began twiddling with his pen.
  他开始转弄起钢笔来。
• There's no point in sitting here twiddling our thumbs.
  我们在这儿瞎坐着是没有的。
• He was twiddling with his watch-chain while he was listening to me.
  他边听我讲边弄着表链。
• I am sitting around twiddling my thumbs.
  我坐在那里闲得无聊。
• 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。
• They are either smoking, or they're twiddling on their BlackBerries, and we have an example: if you have a really stressful job, like president of the United States, you may feel the need to do both.
  他们要么吸烟，要么玩黑莓。举例来说：如果你的工作压力极大，比如担任美国总统，或许你会觉得这两个你都需要。
• 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。
• The prospect of waiting around just twiddling his thumbs was appalling
  想到将要无所事事，他就非常害怕。