| 词汇 | wriggled |
| 释义 | wriggled past simple and past participle ofwriggle 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 chatter choppily choppiness convulse convulsion 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 Examples of wriggledwriggled In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In the living state, they wriggled vigorously, making some forward (or backward) progression. It is those who have changed—wriggled and squirmed from positionto position with nothing more than political opportunism in mind—whom one cannot respect. 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 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 Perhaps while the regulatory structures were settling down in the early days some fish wriggled through the nets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He wriggled and did not seem to wish to give the cases at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After all, we only wriggled through the last war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He wriggled a great deal, but we eventually extracted one or two points. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He wriggled and dodged again when he was asked what amount of money the public expenditure cuts he was recommending would generate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He wriggled himself into a simulated posture of virtue, and said whatever they thought about the letter he knew nothing of the authorship. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, the seals after they were dead, wriggled for an unusual length of time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They wriggled on this question and refused to commit themselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was very nearly caught by it, but before he had finished his speech he had wriggled out of it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I listened with growing apprehension in case the good assurances became only reasonable assurances and then, perhaps, fair assurances, since he gradually wriggled out of his original fairly generous commitment. 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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