stroking
按撫法
If you stroke someone or something, you move your hand slowly and gently over them.
Carla, curled up on the sofa, was smoking a cigarette and stroking her cat...
卡拉正蜷縮在沙發上,一邊吸著煙,一邊輕撫著她的貓咪。
She walked forward and embraced him and stroked his tousled white hair.
她走上前擁抱他並輕撫他凌亂的白髮。
If someone has a stroke, a blood vessel in their brain bursts or becomes blocked, which may kill them or make them unable to move one side of their body.
He had a minor stroke in 1987, which left him partly paralysed.
他 1987 年曾患輕度中風,之後就半身不遂了。
The strokes of a pen or brush are the movements or marks that you make with it when you are writing or painting.
Fill in gaps by using short, upward strokes of the pencil.
用鉛筆向上短短地勾畫幾道來填充空白。
When you are swimming or rowing, your strokes are the repeated movements that you make with your arms or the oars.
I turned and swam a few strokes further out to sea...
我轉身向海裡又遊了幾下。
The boatmen accompany the stroke of their oars with the sound of their voices.
船伕們一邊划槳一邊喊號子。
A swimming stroke is a particular style or method of swimming.
She spent hours practising the breast stroke.
她花了數小時練習蛙泳。
The strokes of a clock are the sounds that indicate each hour.
On the stroke of 12, fireworks suddenly exploded into the night.
12 點的鐘聲剛敲響,焰火便在夜空中綻放。
In sports such as tennis, baseball, cricket, and golf, a stroke is the action of hitting the ball.
Compton was sending the ball here, there, and everywhere with each stroke.
康普頓一會將球打到這裡,一會打到那裡,每一拍的落點都不同。
A stroke of luck or good fortune is something lucky that happens.
It didn't rain, which turned out to be a stroke of luck.
天沒下雨,結果成了件幸事。
A stroke of genius or inspiration is a very good idea that someone suddenly has.
At the time, his appointment seemed a stroke of genius.
當時,對他的任命猶如神來之筆。
If something happens at a stroke or in one stroke, it happens suddenly and completely because of one single action.
The disease wiped out 40 million rabbits at a stroke...
該疾病一下子就使 4,000 萬隻兔子喪命。
How can Britain reduce its prison population in one stroke?
英國如何能一下子減少其監獄服刑人數?
If someone does not do a stroke of work, they are very lazy and do no work at all.
I never did a stroke of work at college.
我在上大學時懶得要命。
1. a light touch with the hands
He thought for a moment, stroking his well-defined jaw.
他摸著自己輪廓分明的下巴想了一會兒。
Carla, curled up on the sofa, was smoking a cigarette and stroking her cat.
卡拉正蜷縮在沙發上,一邊吸著煙,一邊輕撫著她的貓咪。
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.
誰都不能撫摸一隻老虎就使它馴服得像一隻小貓.
He was still fairly calm, except that he kept stroking his chin.
他依然很鎮靜, 不過時時用手摸著下巴.
She kept stroking Jui - chueh's plump ripe hands.
過後她便埋下頭只顧摩撫 瑞珏 的一雙豐滿的手.