squirming

英 [ˈskwɜːmɪŋ]

美 [ˈskwɜːrmɪŋ]

v.  (因紧张、不舒服等)动来动去，来回扭动，坐卧不宁; 十分尴尬; 羞愧难当; 无地自容
squirm的现在分词

现在分词：squirming　

BNC.38443 / COCA.33261

柯林斯词典

• VERB (通常指因紧张不安或不适而)扭动，动来动去
  If yousquirm, you move your body from side to side, usually because you are nervous or uncomfortable.
  1. He had squirmed and wriggled and screeched when his father had washed his face...
     父亲给他洗脸时，他扭来扭去，尖声喊叫。
  2. He gave a feeble shrug and tried to squirm free...
     他无力地耸耸肩，扭动身体想要挣脱。
  3. He squirmed out of the straps of his backpack.
     他扭动身体，挣开背包的肩带。
• VERB 窘迫不安;难为情
  If yousquirm, you are very embarrassed or ashamed.
  1. Mentioning religion is a sure way to make him squirm.
     一提宗教就肯定会让他感到窘迫不安。
  2. ...the type of awful occasion that makes politicians squirm with embarrassment.
     使政客尴尬不安的那种糟糕场合

双语例句

• They were looking down into a lowered place, where something white was lying, squirming a little, in a box lined with black cloth.
  他们在往低处看，在一个围着黑布的箱子里，好像有什么白色的东西躺在里面，微微地蠕动，在很短的时间内。
• A few minutes later, dinner still squirming on the platter is served.
  几分钟后，菜就上桌了还在盘中动弹。
• "Northern Qi Shu" recorded in a high-Huan and squirming on the historical facts of the princess to marry, but did not record high-Cham and small son squirming things married Princess Margaret.
  《北齐书》中记载了高欢与蠕蠕公主结婚的史实，但未记载儿子高湛与小蠕蠕公主结亲之事。
• There's one phrase that's especially good: 'the soundless outcry.' Those words truly capture summer's bursting, squirming vitality.
  一结尤其好；‘无声的呐喊’五个字真把夏天蠢动怒发的生机全传达出来了。
• The guest will be squirming but must try to look engaged and casual.
  客人将会感到局促不安，但必须做到看上去全心投入、自然放松。
• The children got bored and started squirming in their chairs.
  孩子们感到厌烦了，开始在椅子上扭动起来。
• Shape memory alloy robot of electric discharge machining curved hole is developed using bionics and shape memory alloy function material. The squirming principle of actuating device and the guide mechanism of bend guide of the SMA robot are discussed.
  用仿生技术和形状记忆合金功能材料，研制出曲线孔电火花加工形状记忆合金机器人，并对该机器人驱动部分的蠕动原理及弯曲导向部分的导向机理进行了论述。
• In the corner of the room, a man sat in a pool of shadow, with a whore squirming on his lap.
  在房间角落，有个男人抱着膝上的妓女隐蔽在阴影里。
• Every child squirming through the crowd became her brother Tyrion, jeering at her as he had jeered when Joffrey died.
  每个在人群中钻来钻去的小孩都成了她弟弟提利昂，就像乔佛里死时一样嘲讽地看着她。
• Accidents like these have humanised kong, as his infatuation for the squirming blonde was meant to do.
  这些意外让金刚更拟人化，就像他对尖叫的金发美女的迷恋也是。