thumbing的中文翻译是什么意思

N-COUNT(大)拇指

Your thumb is the short thick part on the side of your hand next to your four fingers.

• She bit the tip of her left thumb, not looking at me.

  她咬着左手的拇指尖，眼睛也不看我。

N-COUNT(手套的)拇指部分

The thumb of a glove is the part which a person's thumb fits into.

VERB(站在路边，伸出手，拇指向上)请求搭便车，拦车

If you thumb a lift or thumb a ride, you stand by the side of the road holding out your thumb until a driver stops and gives you a lift.

• It may interest you to know that a boy answering Rory's description thumbed a ride to Howth...

  你或许会对这个消息感兴趣，有个和罗里描述的一模一样的小男孩搭便车到了霍斯。

• Thumbing a lift had once a carefree, easy-going image.

  伸手搭便车曾经给人以轻松随意的形象。

PHRASE扎眼;碍眼

If you say that someone or something sticks out like a sore thumb or stands out like a sore thumb, you are emphasizing that they are very noticeable, usually because they are unusual or inappropriate.

• Does the new housing stick out like a sore thumb or blend into its surroundings?...

  这个新住宅区是显得有点扎眼，还是和环境融为一体？

• In Japan a European stands out like a sore thumb.

  欧洲人到了日本会极为惹眼。

PHRASE无所事事;闲着无聊

If you say that someone is twiddling their thumbs, you mean that they do not have anything to do and are waiting for something to happen.

• 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。

• The Government cannot expect graduates to twiddle their thumbs on the dole.

  政府不愿意看到毕业生领着救济金却什么也不干。

PHRASE在…控制下;深受…影响

If you are under someone's thumb, you are under their control, or very heavily influenced by them.

• I cannot tell you what pain I feel when I see how much my mother is under my father's thumb...

  看见我母亲完完全全受我父亲的控制，我心里别提有多难受。

• She has Rachel firmly under her thumb.

  她把雷切尔牢牢地抓在手心里。