Thumbs

例句:

• He suggested it, by creasing his face with his two thumbs, from the corners of his mouth to his ears. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• There was nobody at all disposed to contest the point, as it happened; and so, on he went, with his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets, like a lamb. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I think I shall trade, also, said he, putting his thumbs in his waist-coat pockets, to the West Indies, for sugar, tobacco, and rum. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• They suffocated some in mud, and suspended others by the feet, or the head, or the thumbs, kindling fires below them. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Because man had ten fingers and thumbs, he learned to count in tens. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• No, no, I thank you, answered Smith, putting on a pair of his thickest beaver gloves as though to defend his thumbs. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He ran his finger along the scar; put his thumbs together over the kneecap and rocked the knee gently with his fingers. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The first man’s ten fingers and thumbs represented units; the second man represented tens, and the third hundreds. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

校对:齐利格