| 词汇 | wriggle |
| 释义 | wriggle verb uk /ˈrɪɡ.əl/ us /ˈrɪɡ.əl/ [ I or T ] to twist your body, or move part of your body, with small, quick movements: 扭动;蠕动 A large worm wriggled in the freshly dug earth.一条大虫子在新翻过的地里蠕动。 Baby Martha was wriggling her toes in the sand.小婴儿玛莎在沙子中扭动着脚趾。 [ I+ adv/prep ] to move somewhere using short, quick twisting movements: 蜿蜒前行；扭动爬行 The tunnel was low and dark, but she managed to wriggle through to the other side.地道又低又暗，但她还是设法爬到了另一端。 After twisting and turning for a while, he managed to wriggle free.一阵扭动之后，他设法挣脱了出来。 Making short, sudden movements aquiver choppily choppiness convulse convulsion flick jar jerk jerkily jerkiness jerky quake quiver recoil shaky shook shudder squirm toss whip You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Moving on your hands and legs or on your stomach Bending, twisting and curving Idiomwriggle off the hook Phrasal verbwriggle out of something wriggle noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˈrɪɡ.əl/ us /ˈrɪɡ.əl/ an act of wriggling: 扭动；蠕动 With a wriggle, she managed to crawl through the gap.她身子一扭，设法爬过了缝隙。 Moving on your hands and legs or on your stomach clamber claw claw your way (somewhere)idiom crawl crawly four grovel on all foursidiom pull scramble shimmy slither slithery You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Bending, twisting and curving Idiomget a wriggle on wriggle | American Dictionarywriggle verb[ I/T ] us/ˈrɪɡ·əl/ to make small quick movements with the body, turning from side to side: [ I ]Somehow he twisted himself about and wriggled free of Farkas’s grip and danced away. Examples of wrigglewriggle He wriggles, twists and turns at every opportunity to defend the somersault that he has made since 1977. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is just wriggling out of it by substituting another statement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He spent a substantial amount of time wriggling around on this issue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I thought that he wriggled a good deal during the course of his remarks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has been unable to deny it, despite his wriggling and writhing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no possibility of wriggling round that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I see one or two of them wriggling, so they clearly do remember it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You may cut off its head, and the rest of the body still wriggles about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think that any wriggling can get them out of that obligation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is simply interested in wriggling through the series of political crises with which he finds himself faced from time to time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are wriggling and wriggling and wriggling because, in reality, they are cutting and cutting and cutting, but cannot admit it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has so far wriggled out of the expression "a big shake-out". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They wriggled like anything, changed direction suddenly, hurried backwards and forwards and concealed their retreat with a cloud of ink. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If he cannot say that, we shall assume that he is wriggling again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I want him to reply without any shilly-shallying or wriggling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of wriggle 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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