| 词汇 | wiggle-room |
| 释义 | wiggle room noun[ U ] uk /ˈwɪɡ.əl ˌruːm/ us /ˈwɪɡ.əl ˌruːm/(mainly UK alsowriggle room) informal the freedom or opportunity to do something, or to change your mind and do something differently if that is what is needed: 回旋余地 We need to leave ourselves some wiggle room when we're negotiating the deal.我们谈判业务的时候需要给自己留一些回旋余地。 Freedom to act (as) free as a birdidiom agency at willidiom autonomist autonomous free hand free pass free reinidiom free spirit free-form no holds barredidiom non-autonomous non-didactic non-directed non-restricted the world is someone's oysteridiom voluntarily walk walk freeidiom wriggle room wiggle room | Business Englishwiggle room noun[ U ] informalukus the degree to which it is possible to change details like prices, times, etc. in an agreement, decision, etc.: How much wiggle room do we have on cost? enough/little/some wiggle roomPrice rises and increasing mortgage rates have left people with little wiggle room in their budgets. Examples of wiggle roomwiggle room We have little wiggleroom, so the calculation must be quite precise. As it happens, legal requirements for guilt tend to have little wiggleroom; every condition in the logical chain must be met. However, the effort is significantly hampered by the wiggleroom provided by the theory. When authors try to construct convincing arguments for or against any particular theoretical position, they are often impeded by the abstractness of the program, which allows too much wiggleroom. There is plenty of wiggleroom there; we know that the commission already wants additional regulations to protect the integrity of the ballot. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For children's sizes, additional wiggleroom is added to allow for growth. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There is some wiggleroom because collections such as books may be counted as a single list item. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. And while seemingly specific, such statements are often open-ended or give the reader the maximum amount of wiggleroom in a reading. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When tied down in ropes or straitjackets, he gained wiggleroom by enlarging his shoulders and chest, moving his arms slightly away from his body, and then dislocating his shoulders. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He offers red meat to the extremists while at the same giving himself the wiggleroom to deny he said anything controversial in the first place. 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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