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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• There are those like me who is left twiddling our thumbs, helpless and feeling hopeless.
  很多人像我一样感到无助，因为我们能做的仅仅是捐款。
• 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。
• He just sat there, twiddling his fingers.
  他只是闲坐在那里，捏弄自己的手指头。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。