twiddling

英 [ˈtwɪdlɪŋ]

美 [ˈtwɪdlɪŋ]

v.  (常因紧张或无聊)旋弄，摆弄，捻弄(物件)
twiddle的现在分词

复数：twiddlings　现在分词：twiddling　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 旋弄;捻弄;摆弄
  If youtwiddlesomething, you twist it or turn it quickly with your fingers.
  1. He twiddled a knob on the dashboard...
     他转动着仪表板上的一个旋钮。
  2. She had sat there twiddling nervously with the clasp of her handbag.
     她坐在那里紧张地摆弄着手提包的扣钩。
• totwiddleyourthumbs→ see:thumb

双语例句

• He had plucked a blue floweret, and was twiddling it against the sky.
  他折了一朵小蓝花，将它对着天空转来转去。
• He could quite happily spend hours twiddling with the knobs on his radio.
  他可以毫不厌倦地花上几个钟头旋弄他收音机上的旋钮。
• She had sat there twiddling nervously with the clasp of her handbag.
  她坐在那里紧张地摆弄着手提包的扣钩。
• The prospect of waiting around just twiddling his thumbs was appalling
  想到将要无所事事，他就非常害怕。
• She sat twiddling her handkerchief, saying not a word.
  她手里搓弄着手绢，一言不发。
• They kept the manager busy and left me twiddling my thumbs.
  他们让经理忙得不可开交，而置我于无所事事之中。thumbsdown大拇指朝下。
• Sometimes they had nothing to do in the office and just sat twiddling their thumbs.
  有时候办公室里无事可做，他们就坐着无聊地打发时间。
• They are either smoking, or they're twiddling on their BlackBerries, and we have an example: if you have a really stressful job, like president of the United States, you may feel the need to do both.
  他们要么吸烟，要么玩黑莓。举例来说：如果你的工作压力极大，比如担任美国总统，或许你会觉得这两个你都需要。
• After all, no amount of twiddling with Basel rules or pious statements about bonuses will ever scare a financier as much as the thought of jail.
  毕竟，再多的巴塞尔协议或虔诚的奖金声明，都不会比想到牢狱之灾更让金融家感到恐惧。
• I am sitting around twiddling my thumbs.
  我坐在那里闲得无聊。