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词汇 pinch
释义 pinch
verb
uk /pɪntʃ/ us /pɪntʃ/

pinchverb (PRESS)


[ I or T ]
to press something, especially someone's skin, strongly between two hard things such as a finger and a thumb, usually causing pain: 捏,拧,掐,夹
Ouch! Stop pinching (me)!哎哟,别掐我!
These shoes are too tight, they pinch (my feet).这双鞋太紧了,夹我的脚。
 pinch yourselfinformal
You say that you have to pinch yourself if you cannot really believe something that has happened because it is so good or so strange: 拧自己一下(表示某事太好或太奇怪,简直令人难以置信)
I can't believe that he's back from Canada and he's mine - I keep having to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming.我不敢相信他从加拿大回来了,而且他属于我——我不停地拧自己以确信我不是在做梦。
The sunsets are so beautiful you have to pinch yourself to prove you're not dreaming.
She was still pinching herself after having been told she'd won the award.
The dancers are still pinching themselves that they are going to perform for the king.
He had to pinch himself to be sure he was really sitting in the same room as his hero.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Squeezing and grinding
compression
compressive
concertina
constrict
constriction
gnash your teethidiom
mash
mill
nip
noncompressible
pound
presser
pulp
pulverization
snap
squash
squish
tamp
unground
unmilled

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Not believing

pinchverb (STEAL)


[ T ]informal
to steal something: 偷窃,偷盗
Right, who's pinched my chair?好嘛,谁把我的椅子偷走了?
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to take something from someone
takeHe offered her the microphone but she wouldn't take it.
take hold ofGet ready to take hold of the baton as the next runner approaches.
snatchHe snatched the letter out of my hands before I could read it.
stealThe car was stolen from right outside our house.
pinchA thief pinched his wallet and phone.
seizeFederal agents seized two computers.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stealing
abscond
abscond with someone/something
aggravated burglary
anti-burglar
anti-burglary
eavesdrop
hot-wire
housebreaking
jemmy
jimmy
job
plunder
poach
poaching
porch piracy
purloin
rustle
rustling
snaffle
snitch

Idiom


pinch pennies
pinch
noun
uk /pɪntʃ/ us /pɪntʃ/

pinchnoun (AMOUNT)


[ C ]
a small amount of something, such as a powder, especially the amount that a person can hold between their first finger and thumb: (一)撮;少量
While the tomatoes are cooking add a pinch of salt/sugar/dried thyme.烧西红柿时加一小撮盐/糖/干百里香。
figurativeOpinion polls on subjects like this should be taken with a pinch of scepticism.对这种话题的民意测验应持半信半疑的态度。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Words meaning small pieces and amounts
by a noseidiom
clipping
crumb
dab of something
dash
dollop
grain
ort
paring
peewee
potsherd
ray
skinny
spark
thimbleful
tidbit
tiddler
titbit
tittle
trace

pinchnoun (PRESS)


[ Cusually singular ]
the act of pinching something or someone: 捏,拧,掐,夹
She gave Emma a painful pinch on the arm.她在埃玛的胳膊上狠狠地掐了一下。
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Squeezing and grinding
compression
compressive
concertina
constrict
constriction
gnash your teethidiom
mash
mill
nip
noncompressible
pound
presser
pulp
pulverization
snap
squash
squish
tamp
unground
unmilled

Idiom


at a pinch

pinch | American Dictionary


pinch
verb[ I/T ]
us/pɪntʃ/

pinchverb[I/T] (PRESS)


to tightly press something, esp. someone’s skin, between your finger and thumb or between two surfaces:
[ T ]He pinched his nose together and breathed through his mouth.
[ T ]I had to pinch myself so I’d know I wasn’t dreaming.

Idiom


in a pinch
pinch
noun
us/pɪntʃ/

pinchnoun (AMOUNT)


[ C ]
a small amount of something, esp. the amount that you can hold between your finger and thumb:
a pinch of nutmeg/pepper

Examples of pinch


pinch
In this flow regime an initially circular blob of fluid will deform without reaching equilibrium, eventually breaking by pinching off along the y -axis.
Likewise, pinched rings were highly localized in most crosssections.
The proposed feedback control law is a linear combination of simple control signals each achieving a specified subtask of the dexterous object pinching motion.
Like any other power-driven machine, to date, there have been many reports of minor cuts, bumps, pinches, and shocks to people working with robots.
Z pinches have long been interesting to plasma physicists because of the simplicity of their geometry.
Taking into account the absence of counteracting pressure in the corona plasma, it is possible to expect it pinching onto the cold core plasma.
Finally, the zipper data show that even good pinches show significant variations with axial distance.
One neuron responded selectively to the anticipation and delivery of noxious mechanical stimulation (pinching, pinpricks), as well as to observation of the experimenter receiving pinpricks.
Therefore, the article suggests 'people should treat them with pinches of salt instead of lapping them up with relish'.
Figure 4 shows that an increase in gas density of a hundred-fold can assist the capillary pinching only slightly.
483 parallel, sometimes cross-bedded sandstone, with thin, laterally pinching out red mudstone is also observed.
The plasma is pinched to the minimum radius for the second time.
When the plasma is pinched to the minimum radius for the first time, the kinetic pressure balances the magnetic pressure.
We define the first pinching time as the time when the plasma is pinched to the minimum radius for the first time.
According to the theoretical simulation, we propose that the plasma should be pinched three times before the laser is produced.
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