writhed

英 [raɪðd]

美 [raɪðd]

v.  (常指因剧痛不停地)扭动，翻滚
writhe的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB (通常指由于剧痛或不适而)扭动，翻滚
  If youwrithe, your body twists and turns violently backwards and forwards, usually because you are in great pain or discomfort.
  1. He was writhing in agony...
     他痛苦地翻滚着。
  2. The subject makes her writhe with embarrassment...
     这个话题让她难堪得坐立不安。
  3. The shark was writhing around wildly, trying to get free.
     鲨鱼拼命挣扎，试图逃脱。

双语例句

• While I was thus looking and wondering, in a calm moment, when the ship was still, Israel hands turned partly round, and, with a low moan, writhed himself back to the position in which I had seen him first.
  船这时又不动了，可正当我看着他们感到纳闷时，伊斯利尔汉兹稍稍朝这边侧了侧身，低低地呻吟一声，扭动身子恢复了我最先看到他的姿势。
• His body writhed, his face contorted, his eyes rolled wildly.
  子，脸部抽搐，眼珠拼命地翻来翻去。
• The dark cloud writhed and twisted, finally tugging free of the wall.
  黑烟翻腾着、扭动着，最后挣脱了石墙的束缚。
• Scarlett writhed at his words.
  思嘉听了他这番话痛苦极了。
• It now writhed in convulsions of pain, and was a forcible type, in its little frame, of the moral agony which Hester Prynne had borne throughout the day.
  此时，她正在痛苦的痉挛中扭动着，那小小的身躯成了海丝特白兰一天中所忍受的精神上的极度痛苦的有力的具体表现。
• It is said that he writhed under insults for a period of time.
  据说有一段时间他因受辱而极为痛苦。
• He writhed in agony on the ground.
  他育得在地上打滚。
• It writhed and twisted.
  蛇蠕动、扭曲着身体。
• His soul writhed with boredom, but for once he had had no impulse to shirk his evening at the centre.
  这一切真叫厌烦难忍，可只有这一次，他没有产生冲动，企图逃避活动中心的晚间活动。
• It curled up and writhed about painfully, then quickly sank to the bottom, dead as a doornail.
  虫子缩成一团，痛苦的挣扎两下后，就沉到杯底死了。