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

• 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。
• He began twiddling with his pen.
  他开始转弄起钢笔来。
• He was twiddling with his watch-chain while he was listening to me.
  他边听我讲边弄着表链。
• Over time, this script has saved me dozens of hours that I would have spent manually twiddling with an FTP GUI, or constantly changing directories via an annoying command-line FTP program.
  随着时间的推移，这个脚本已经为我节省了数十个小时，我不再需要手工使用FTPGUI，也不需要通过一个恼人的FTP命令行程序频繁的变换目录。
• 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。
• She sat twiddling her handkerchief, saying not a word.
  她手里搓弄着手绢，一言不发。
• 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 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。
• After all, no amount of twiddling with Basel rules or pious statements about bonuses will ever scare a financier as much as the thought of jail.
  毕竟，再多的巴塞尔协议或虔诚的奖金声明，都不会比想到牢狱之灾更让金融家感到恐惧。
• I'm just going to be hanging around twiddling my thumbs
  我只会闲呆着，什么事也不做。