Twitch
[twɪtʃ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition.
(verb.) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion; 'his face is twitching'.
(verb.) move or pull with a sudden motion.
錄入:西德尼--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes.
(n.) The act of twitching; a pull with a jerk; a short, sudden, quick pull; as, a twitch by the sleeve.
(n.) A short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a simple muscular contraction; as, convulsive twitches; a twitch in the side.
(n.) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation.
西莉亚手打
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Pull suddenly, snatch, jerk, yerk, pluck.
n. [1]. Jerk, quick pull.[2]. Spasm, twitching, sudden contraction (as of the muscles).
編輯:兰德尔
解釋/意思:
v.t. to pull with a sudden jerk: to pluck: to snatch.—v.i. to be suddenly jerked: to move spasmodically: to carp sneer.—n. a sudden quick pull: a spasmodic contraction of the muscles: a loop fixed to a stick for fixing on the upper lip of a refractory horse during shoeing &c.: the sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.—ns. Twitch′er; Twitch′ing.
伊丽莎白手打
例句/造句/用法:
- She was watching the fingers twitch across the eternal, mechanical, monotonous clock-face of time. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- His hand was still there as they saw the four horsemen ride out of the timber and he felt the muscles in Agustín's back twitch under his hand. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Did that nostril twitch? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Some agitated movement occasioned a twitch of the silken chain. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- 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.
- His lips were thin, and though, as it seemed, compressed by thought, there was a pleasant twitch at their corners now and then. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Lydgate did not speak, but tossed his head on one side, and twitched the corners of his mouth in despair. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It twitched her nostrils open in a remarkable manner, and contracted her lips and eyebrows. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- She looked all round the room in a glaring manner, and then said, leaning on me while her hand twitched my shoulder, Come, come, come! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- If the Major had twitched before, he started now, and slapped the bamboo on the ground with an emphasis which made Miss Clapp cry, Law, and laugh too. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- One leg was gone and the other was held by tendons and part of the trouser and the stump twitched and jerked as though it were not connected. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Not a muscle twitched, nor a tremor shook his giant frame as a soldier of the guard roughly stripped his gorgeous trappings from him. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I am tickled and twitched all over. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He pushed his face forward as he spoke and his lips and eyelids were continually twitching like a man with St. Vitus's dance. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Then he was quiet, biting his arm, the stump of his leg twitching. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The deceased, you know, says Mr. Snagsby, twitching his head and right eyebrow towards the staircase and tapping his acquaintance on the button. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- And Laurie poked the fire to hide a little twitching of the lips that he could not control. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Oh, obscenity them, Primitivo said with an absolute devoutness of blasphemy, tears in his eyes and his cheeks twitching. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- His eyes were shut with pain, the edges of the lips twitching. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- And then quite suddenly it settled down, hobbled among the grass, and sat considering, its nose twitching like a bit of fluff in the wind. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
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