| 词汇 | example_english_twiddle |
| 释义 | Examples of twiddleThese 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. 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 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 Today one stands still and twiddles the hoop round oneself. 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 There is an immense problem facing this country, and it cannot be dealt with by twiddling and footling around with the subsidy or by legislation of this kind. 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 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 He was also fond of drawing hands with interlocked fingers, which looked as though the characters were twiddling their thumbs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. French spindles are twiddled between the fingers of one hand instead. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Then we twiddle and, more often than not, all we get is twaddle or, to be more precise, nothing. 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 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 When they twiddle the dial they will have to listen to these stations because they will not receive anything else. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They would take the action that was in their best national interest and twiddle with the rules later. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we give it a great big twiddle, we can turn the results on their head. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I take the point that if at all possible one ought not to twiddle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One can twiddle round with the facts as much as one likes, but ultimately one comes face to face with that simple fact. 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 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 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 If we twiddle it a bit one way, we get a slightly different result and if we twiddle it the other way the result is different again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The first was his tie-twiddle to demonstrate embarrassment. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. We cannot afford the luxury of sitting here just twiddling our thumbs. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 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 I know a man who has given up smoking, and he always has coins in his pocket which he twiddles; and it helps him. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the war people were ready to crouch over their sets, twiddling the controls to capture and hold the signal. 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 Unless it meddles in local authority matters, it will be twiddling its proverbial 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 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 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 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 should not be left twiddling their thumbs, or hanging about the cattle markets un-productively, or mending fences that do not need mending at all. 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 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 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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