| 词汇 | example_english_thumb |
| 释义 | Examples of thumbThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Follow with the eyes keeping the head still - three times with each hand and three times with the hands together, thumbs crossed. From this standpoint, the evolutionarily advantaged functions of divided attention, upright bipedal ambulation and opposable thumbs can be seen as vulnerable. I suspect this a book that will be heavily thumbed over on library shelves by people with a wide range of interests. Information retrieval by means of the computer's search engine takes much less time than thumbing through the pages of an alphabetic dictionary. Not to be capable or technically proficient, but to be a bit all thumbs. Feedback about accuracy was given each trial in the form of a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" picture. From an evolutionary standpoint, upright bipedal ambulation, opposable thumbs and divided attention each are high order. Gorillas are more than camels with opposable thumbs. Every proposal is subjected to a kind of "thumbs up or thumbs down" vote. Hands and feet were also characteristic with digitization of thumbs and proximal implantation ofsecond to fourth toes. She might have an inborn talent for the piano, or she might be all thumbs. The assignment of thumbs to the yes and no buttons was counterbalanced across participants. Facial characteristics, broad thumbs and distal phalanges, and partial duplication of the big toes are clearly visible. Finally, while publishing their desires for industrial peace and public welfare, they gouged prices and thumbed their noses at both proposed congressional and presidential strike settlement commissions. In addition, the participants were instructed to keep their index or middle finger on the response keys and use their thumbs to press the space bar for the next word. When the palms of both hands are confronted, flexion contracture of the interphalangeal joint is evident in both thumbs and in the third finger of the upper hand. My copy is already well thumbed. The curved lines on the middle eight systems represent finger pressure changes for each of the six front keys and the two thumbs. We cannot afford the luxury of sitting here just twiddling our thumbs. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English However, when those women and girls were asked what they wanted, the panel got the thumbs down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No real attempt is made to organise work for these scientists, and many of them are sitting there doing little more than twiddling their thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Obviously, many people have read that manifesto recently because it was well thumbed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The number of vacancies notified can be counted on the fingers of two hands—the fingers, forget the thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, the sorer of the two thumbs is the forecast trade performance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The dictionary owned by a dyslexic person is always, like mine, very well thumbed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No doubt he would then stay for seven years thumbing his nose at the landlord and jingling his £8,000 a year in his pocket. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will not sit and twiddle their thumbs waiting for the fish industry to recover. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If he thumbs his way through the 6,000 pages he will find page after page of anti-avoidance legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Officials should not, therefore, give a development the thumbs down in the face of a council's unanimous agreement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have not even had to put my thumbs to his temples. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Because he is zealous and energetic he does not sit twiddling his thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Also, is that not a waste of expensive surgeons' operating time when they are twiddling their thumbs? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said that was the way he got to work every morning, by thumbing lifts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said that we should give dogs the vote, because in some countries people simply had to put their thumbs on pieces of paper. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Recollect that if children do not learn by fourteen to use their fingers, their fingers become thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Was he to stand twiddling his thumbs doing nothing, when face to face with revolution? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What good is it to win an appeal if the education board just thumbs its nose? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unfortunately, so far it has had the thumbs down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In silent meditation, or in merely twiddling their thumbs in some office or another? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a universal thumbs down for it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One thumbs through the pile and as often as not one misses it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I asked a young man who had thumbed a lift in our village what he was doing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When people cannot be employed there, they sit in the hills twiddling their thumbs and get up to mischief. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They sit around twiddling their thumbs, producing for consultation measures that we have seen time and again before. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The best way of doing that is by ensuring that some people go across there, although they are against it and might twiddle their thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is twiddling his thumbs, waiting for the recession to come to an end and hoping that he can survive it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They had to have their thumbs marked with indelible ink, which people in this country would find less than pleasant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As he succinctly put it, the supermarkets have given it a serious thumbs down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 High buildings may be sore thumbs and ugly, but they can also be slender fingers and beautiful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I had a letter only today telling me about two old ladies thumbing a lift in order to keep a dental appointment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our friends could be counted on the thumbs of both hands. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are certainly doing much more than twiddling their thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suggest that her time would be spent more fruitfully thumbing nervously through local authority planning guidelines. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course there are cases within the 11 million group which stick out like sore thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Members of the party opposite are the last people to talk about others twiddling their thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A free-standing commission would involve short bursts of hectic activity and long periods of the twiddling of thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Given such an overwhelming thumbs down for social services' communication, my next question of how readily information was received became somewhat academic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The structural funds certainly get my thumbs down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The master walked over to a corner of the bridge, pulled out a massive tome and thumbed through it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The shocking thing about it is that generally the thumbs and fingers belong to young persons, usually women, who are cleaning these machines. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unless one knows the code intimately or is lucky in thumbing through the pages, one cannot find the section dealing with service areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nothing was done and, therefore, the company has, in effect, thumbed its nose at the directive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said that doctors were twiddling their thumbs while waiting for the necessary beds to be made available. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us give that 'thumbs up' to our deaf citizens in honouring their right to communicate in the way they themselves choose. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The experts are virtually unanimous in giving it the thumbs down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should not have a standstill in the sense that everyone is twiddling his thumbs for months and months. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My copy is so heavily thumbed and marked that it is almost in pieces. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the same time we are not going to sit back and twiddle our thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They said that it was a flop and gave it the thumbs down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he pull his thumbs out and get on with it? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If public consultation is to mean anything, the verdict can be seen only as an emphatic thumbs down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have given a decisive thumbs down to high rates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We had visions of somebody in a rather uncomfortable customs office somewhere thumbing through the books. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He can count them on the thumbs of two hands. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On the vast majority of occasions when parents have been given a say, they have given a clear thumbs down to the grant-maintained option. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are two rather surly looking men with hats on with their thumbs down and two smiling young ladies with their thumbs up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Farmers have not sat on their thumbs waiting for help. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was born with six fingers on my right hand and no joint on my two thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are all fingers and thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I thumbed through the pages of the document, and found that all that we are offered on compensation is a reiteration of the original clause 11. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was reminded recently by somebody who had been a farmer that he had been told by a veterinary surgeon that there was nothing like a pair of strong thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are beyond the price of the student and are thumbed through from year to year by generations of students numbering hundreds, yet the poor author has sold one copy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Two things stand out like sore thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have thumbed through the report. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nobody has invented anything better than that, apparently, and it still has to be pulled away with a piece of string when the pilot gives the "thumbs up" signal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will go on the dole, perhaps with some redundancy money, too, and twiddle their thumbs at home, when they could be providing services for needy people in the borough. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You can hardly expect him to sit at home twiddling his thumbs when he can be with his friends fighting for his cause in picketing power stations and the like. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The strong thumbs are rather like that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Once they get there, there is nothing for them to do except to sit around the room and stare into space, and they literally twiddle their thumbs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When no one comes to his counter or to his repair shop, he does not sit idly by and say that twiddling one's thumbs is very good for one's character. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They walk a mile at a time; they keep walking and keep thumbing, hoping of course that in the first 100 yards they will get a lift. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We got a clear thumbs down. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yes, it is well thumbed, and it shows that, in the experience of other countries, a powerful form of regulation can work in driving down a crime levels. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Thumbs are used to press the keys that are located towards the sides of the screen, either a single key or two keys simultaneously. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The long fingers have a powerful grip for climbing about among the branches, but it has no thumbs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. By making a chamber in the hands and blow air between your thumbs into the hands, you will get a sound. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They are called spikethumb because of the spike on their thumbs, which is called a prepollex. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Players will spend literally hours in the easier modes and this game is like exercise for his/her thumbs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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