Pinching
[pɪntʃ]
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pinch
(a.) Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- A long shot, Watson; a very long shot, said he, pinching my arm. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He asks Lydgate all sorts of questions and then screws up his face while he hears the answers, as if they were pinching his toes. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I see men here going about in the streets who look ground down by some pinching sorrow or care--who are not only sufferers but haters. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- And soon afterwards, on the second boy's violently pinching one of the same lady's fingers, she fondly observed, How playful William is! 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I repeated, pinching her cheek. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I see something of that in Mr. Tyke at the Hospital: a good deal of his doctrine is a sort of pinching hard to make people uncomfortably aware of him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Fledgeby, watching him with a twitch in his mean face which did duty there for a smile, looked very like the tormentor who was pinching. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- What torments they are, yet we can't do without them, he said, pinching her cheeks good-humoredly. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It was not big nor red, like poor 'Petrea's', it was only rather flat, and all the pinching in the world could not give it an aristocratic point. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I dare say not, said-Dorothea, pinching her sister's chin. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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