Writhe
[raɪð]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); 'The prisoner writhed in discomfort'; 'The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace'.
哈洛錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.
(v. t.) To wrest; to distort; to pervert.
(v. t.) To extort; to wring; to wrest.
(v. i.) To twist or contort the body; to be distorted; as, to writhe with agony. Also used figuratively.
凯思琳校對
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Twist, distort, contort, make awry.
v. n. Wriggle, squirm, be distorted.
埃斯特拉編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to turn to and fro: to twist violently: to wrest: (obs.) to extort.—v.i. to twist.—n. (rare) a contortion.—adv. Wrī′thingly.
胡安娜校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Let him writhe, in impotent malice, as we pen the words, _We will be there_. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He knew us directly; and said, as he came out--with the old writhe,-- 'How do you do, Mr. Copperfield? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He must writhe on the edge of the chasm, suspended in chains of invisible physical life. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- They writhed her regal face to a demoniac mask. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- And Hermione came near, and her bosom writhed, and Ursula was for a moment blank with panic. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- There was the huge famished brute, its black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and screamed upon the ground. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- He writhed, fumed, shifted his seat, and the beating of his heart was almost audible. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- But Hermione writhed in her soul, knowing what she could not know. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- A screaming, gibbering maniac writhed in my grasp. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The wounded man writhed and shrieked upon the ground. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- She writhes and twists about like a snake. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She writhes under her life. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Leitner hated Loerke with an injured, writhing, impotent hatred, and Loerke treated Leitner with a fine-quivering contempt and sarcasm. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He was suspended on the edge of a void, writhing. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And then--' 'There's a bicycle coming,' he said, writhing under her loud denunciation. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- If this bursting heart, this writhing lip speak not, leave me to the fate I deserve, and which I shall meet undismayed. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I lowered my lamp, and saw a negro half clad, writhing under the agony of disease, while he held me with a convulsive grasp. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It was writhing with inward merriment. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- For a moment Gilchrist, with upraised hand, tried to control his writhing features. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
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