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 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。
• 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。
• With the elimination of twiddling hempen threads by hand, Masidun is disappearing gradually because of aging and being destroyed.
  但随着手工绩麻的淘汰，麻丝墩正在逐渐老化、损毁和消失。
• 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。
• Over time, this script has saved me dozens of hours that I would have spent manually twiddling with an FTP GUI, or constantly changing directories via an annoying command-line FTP program.
  随着时间的推移，这个脚本已经为我节省了数十个小时，我不再需要手工使用FTPGUI，也不需要通过一个恼人的FTP命令行程序频繁的变换目录。
• Nor do banks want to be seen to be the first to make lay-offs, which amounts to a public confession that its bankers are twiddling their thumbs.
  也没有一家银行想第一个裁员，因为这意味着公开承认其员工无所事事。
• There's no point in sitting here twiddling our thumbs.
  我们在这儿瞎坐着是没有的。
• He was twiddling with his watch-chain while he was listening to me.
  他边听我讲边弄着表链。
• She finds a secretary's job very boring-some days there's almost no work for her at all, and she just sits there twiddling her thumbs.
  她觉得当秘书很乏味&有时几乎无事可做，因此只是坐在那里抚弄大拇指玩。
• Otherwise you will get wasted resources, people twiddling their thumbs or maybe doing work without approval.
  否则你就是在浪费资源，人们无所事事或者就是在没有批准交付物的情况下工作。