thumbs的中文翻譯是什麼意思

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.

  她咬著左手的拇指尖，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(站在路邊，伸出手，拇指向上)請求搭便車，攔車

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...

  你或許會對這個訊息感興趣，有個和羅裡描述的一模一樣的小男孩搭便車到了霍斯。

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

  伸手搭便車曾經給人以輕鬆隨意的形象。

PHRASE扎眼;礙眼

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?...

  這個新住宅區是顯得有點扎眼，還是和環境融為一體？

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

  歐洲人到了日本會極為惹眼。

PHRASE無所事事;閒著無聊

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...

  想到將要無所事事，他就非常害怕。

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

  政府不願意看到畢業生領著救濟金卻什麼也不幹。

PHRASE在…控制下;深受…影響

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...

  看見我母親完完全全受我父親的控制，我心裡別提有多難受。

• She has Rachel firmly under her thumb.

  她把雷切爾牢牢地抓在手心裡。