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thumb单词基本解析：

n.拇指; （手套的）拇指部份vi.翘起拇指请求搭乘（过路汽车），示意请求搭便车; 翻阅vt.翻阅; 作搭车手势; 用拇指翻脏[翻坏]（书页等）
n.拇指 v.翻阅, 示意要求搭车
n.拇指；（手套的）拇指部份；

thumb变化用词：

复数:thumbs;第三人称单数:thumbs;过去式:thumbed;过去分词:thumbed;现在分词:thumbing;
动词过去式: thumbed | 动词过去分词: thumbed | 动词现在分词: thumbing | 动词第三人称单数: thumbs |
复数：thumbs过去式：thumbed过去分词：thumbed现在分词：thumbing第三人称单数：thumbs

thumb英英释义：

Noun

1. the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb

2. the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb

3. a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse

名词 thumb:

the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb

同义词：pollex

the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb

a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse

同义词：ovolo, quarter round

动词 thumb:

travel by getting free rides from motorists

同义词：hitchhike, hitch

look through a book or other written material

同义词：flick, flip, riffle, leaf, riff

feel or handle with the fingers

同义词：finger

thumb[ θʌm ]n.the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb

同义词：pollex

the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumba convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse

同义词：ovoloquarter round

v.travel by getting free rides from motorists

同义词：hitchhikehitch

look through a book or other written material

"He thumbed through the report"

同义词：flickflipriffleleafriff

feel or handle with the fingers

同义词：finger

thumb中文词源：

thumb 拇指 来自古英语 thuma,拇指，来自 Proto-Germanic*thumon,拇指，来自 PIE*tum,鼓起，来自 PIE*teue, 鼓起，词源同 tumid,thigh.插入字母 b,比较 number,numerate.

thumb用法和例句：

She still sucks her thumb when she's worried.

她在忧虑时仍然会吸吮大拇指。

There's a hole in the thumb.

手套的拇指上有个窟窿。

Let's hold thumbs that you get the job.

我们期望你如愿得到这份工作啊。

Their proposals were given the thumbs down .

他们的建议遭到拒绝。

It looks like it's thumbs up for their latest album.

看样子他们的最新歌曲专辑成功了。

He had thumbed all across Europe.

他搭乘便车游遍了欧洲。

We managed to thumb a lift/ride with a truck driver.

我们设法使得过路的卡车司机允许我们搭便车。

She thumbed off the safety catch of her pistol.

她用拇指打开了手枪的保险栓。

The company just thumbs its nose at the legislation on pollution.

这家公司完全不把污染立法放在眼里。

She bit the tip of her left thumb, not looking at me.

她咬着左手的拇指尖，眼睛也不看我。

It may interest you to know that a boy answering Rory's description thumbed a ride to Howth...

你或许会对这个消息感兴趣，有个和罗里描述的一模一样的小男孩搭便车到了霍斯。

Thumbing a lift had once a carefree, easy-going image.

伸手搭便车曾经给人以轻松随意的形象。

Does the new housing stick out like a sore thumb or blend into its surroundings?...

这个新住宅区是显得有点扎眼，还是和环境融为一体？

In Japan a European stands out like a sore thumb.

欧洲人到了日本会极为惹眼。

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。

The Government cannot expect graduates to twiddle their thumbs on the dole.

政府不愿意看到毕业生领着救济金却什么也不干。

I cannot tell you what pain I feel when I see how much my mother is under my father's thumb...

看见我母亲完完全全受我父亲的控制，我心里别提有多难受。

She has Rachel firmly under her thumb.

她把雷切尔牢牢地抓在手心里。

The Jones family is under the thumb of the mother.

琼斯一家人都得听从母亲的.

John nipped his thumb in the door!

约翰的拇指被门夹住了!

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Hold up your right hand. Now, count down from ten, starting with your thumb.

现在, 请举起你的右手, 从你的大拇指开始从十倒数.

Move the thumb as the user drags the thumb within the scroll bar.

当用户在滚动条内拖动滑块时移动滑块.

Normally they are a cynical , cocksure breed who thumb their noses at trouble.

这是一个通常玩世不恭, 过度自信的种族.

I just do it by rule of thumb.

我凭经验做的.

英汉 - 翻译样例 - 口语

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There was this little kid who had a bad habit of sucking his thumb.

一个小家伙老喜欢吮自己的大拇指,这可是个坏习惯。

A warlock can't hurt you or control you if he is under your thumb.

一旦你拥有足够的技巧只凭一个术士不能威胁你的安全或者随心所欲的控制你。

A rule of thumb is to allow flexibility with length.

一条经验法则是允许灵活性和长度。

As a rule of thumb, a one-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax raises$1 billion. Oil producers in President-elect Bush's adopted state of Texas, however, would rather see a tax on imported crude oil.

一般情形是，每加仑加汽油一分钱的税可以征收10亿元。可是，在布什第二家乡德克萨斯州的产油商宁愿看见在进口原油上征税。

Eugenia caryophyllata Thumb.

丁香

HPCE Determination of Eugenol in Eugenia caryophyllata Thumb.

丁香中丁香酚的高效毛细管电泳测定

Exit the water thumb first rather than pinkie first.

不是小指，而是大拇哥先出水！

To compensate we use rules of thumb or rough guidelines.

为了做出补偿，我们只能凭借经验，或者比较粗略的指导原则。

Why do you have to stick out like a sore thumb?

为什么你一定要别出心裁?

Peristrophe japonica ( Thumb ) Brem.

九头狮子草

Do watch that the thumb is raised both before and after playing!

事实证明,拇指在弹奏中起着承前续后的桥梁作用!

He rubbed the bridge of his nose between thumb and forefinger.

于是，瑞克用拇指和食指捏了捏鼻梁[，没再多说]。

ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

亚:你是向我们咬你的大拇指吗?

The human thumb is opposable.

人类的拇指与其他四指对置。

The human thumb is apposable.

人类的拇指与其他四指并置。

What has four fingers and a thumb but no flesh and bone?

什么东西有五指却没有骨肉?

What has four fingers and a thumb but no flesh or bones?

什么东西有四个手指和一个拇指但是没有肉和骨头?

He accidentally hit his thumb with the hammer.

他不小心用铁锤敲着了拇指.

He can not afford the fare; He thumb his way all over europe.

他付不起车费，于是他搭便车走遍欧洲。

All of them turn down the thumb at the suggestion.

他们大家都反对这一建议。

He pressed down on the boards; press your thumb on this spot.

他压在木板上；在这一点上压你的拇指。

He will thumb a lift to work.

他在路边要求搭便车上班。

He pinched the leaf between his thumb and forefinger.

他将叶子捏在拇指和食指之间。

He tends to thumb down all my best ideas.

他总是要否定我所有最好的主意。

He have a painful cut on his thumb.

他拇指上的伤口疼。

He is a rule - of - thumb photographer.

他是一个靠经验摄影的摄影家。

He's quite untrained but he can build a greenhouse by a rule of thumb.

他没有受过什么训练，但能凭实际经验建造温室。

He carried it upstairs, his thumb hooked in the teapot handle.

他用大拇指勾住茶壶柄，把托盘端上楼去。

He held it between the tips of his thumb and forefinger.

他用大拇指和食指尖拿著它。

He ran his thumb along the edge of his knife.

他用大拇指试试刀刃。

He sprang it open with his thumb and offered it.

他用拇指把它按开，递了过去。

He tamped down the tobacco in his pipe with his thumb.

他用拇指把烟斗里的烟丝摁实。

His wife has him under her thumb.

他的妻子控制他。

He's nipped his thumb in the fastener.

他的姆指被扣件夹住了。

He's (He has) nipped his thumb in the fastener.

他的姆指被钩扣夹住了。

His foolishness sticks out like a sore thumb.

他的愚蠢特别显眼。

There is a hole in the thumb of his mitten.

他的手套的姆指上有个洞。

He had a painful cut on his thumb.

他的拇指上有个疼痛的伤口。

He caught his thumb in the door.

他的拇指让门夹了。

He can detect a typhoon by rule of thumb.

他能凭经验预测出台风

He is still under his mother's thumb,even though he is nearly 30.

他虽然快30岁了，但仍然受着母亲的管束。

He stood out like a sore thumb.

他表现得十分引人注目。

He often works by rule of thumb.

他通常凭经验办事。

Eva. Keep them straight and together. The thumb must be extended.

伊娃，手指伸直，靠在一起，大拇指伸直。

Straighten out your fingers and thumb.

伸直你的手指和拇指。

As a rule of thumb, 14 Kbps of bandwidth s per call is ideal.

作为一个经验法则,14Kbps的带宽每次通话是理想.

You ought to thumb through this art book sometime.

你什么时候应该浏览一下这本美术书。

Lois: You will stick out like a sore thumb.

你会招徕注目暴露目标的。

Your leave thumb suffer a comminute fracture.

你左手的拇指是粉碎性骨折。

Q. Do you stick out like a sore thumb in a crowd of people?

你是否在拥挤的人群里惹人注目呢?

Your thumb is the same length of your nose.

你的大拇指的长度正好是鼻子的长度。

Why is your thumb in bandage?

你的拇指为什么用绷带包住呢?

I can make my thumb and forefinger meet round your bicep.

你的胳膊还不如我的大拇指和食指合拢来的圈儿那么粗。

You Philadelphian';t thumb indepexistent abrocky it.

你确定不能把这件事告诉他。

As a rule of thumb, you should cook a chicken for 20 minutes for each pound that it weighs.

凭经验估计，每磅鸡肉应烹调20分钟。

Rule of thumb, Hassan, you can't kill the Messiah.

凯恩：基本原则，哈桑，你不可能杀死弥赛亚的。

Leave me alone! My right thumb hurts.

别动我，我右手大拇指很疼。

Don't suck your thumb; it's so dirty.

别舔手指头，太脏了。

Polygonum multifiorum Thumb.

制首乌

Jim is a bully. He keeps all the younger children under his thumb.

吉姆很霸道，所有年幼的孩子都得受他摆布。

What a shame that you suck your thumb.

吮拇指可够羞人的。

A tack with a smooth, rounded head that can be pressed into place with the thumb.

图钉一种可用拇指揿入某处的有光滑圆形头部的平头钉

He almost lost his thumb doing it last time," Glenday said.

在上次表演时，他的手指差点被蛇咬掉。”

Only two people at the meeting turn up the thumb for the idea.

在会上只有两人对那一主意表示赞成。

Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests snug as a gun.

在我手指和大拇指中间,一支粗壮的笔躺着,舒适自在像一支枪。

In this central position the thumb points forward.

处于这个中心位置时,拇指尖向前。

A bone in the wrist at the base of the thumb.

大多角骨腕部接近拇指根底部的骨头

The thumb is opposable to the forefinger.

大姆指可与食指相对。

Down and down fell Tom Thumb, till at last he struck the water.

大姆指汤姆落呀、落呀，直到最后溅落到水面。

The ball of the thumb,ie the part near the palm.

大拇指下面近掌心的球形部分。

The thumb is an opposable digit.

大拇指与食指处于相对位置

Tom Thumb, Sleeping Beauty, and Quasimodo were all talking one day.

大拇指汤姆，睡美人和卡西莫多（巴黎圣母院男主角)某日聊天。

The thumb can be opposed to any of the fingers.

大拇指能与任何一个手指相对。

Oliver wet his great thumb briefly.

奥立佛凝神舐了一舐大拇指。

They managed to thumb a lift to Paris.

她们设法搭便车到达巴黎。

She still sucks her thumb when she's worried.

她在忧虑时仍然会吸吮大拇指。

With a beautiful garden, she must have a green thumb.

她有这麽漂亮的花园，她一定是位种花的专家。

IS:v. She prodded me on the shoulder with her thumb.

她用大拇指在我肩上戳了一下。

Her thumb is painfully swollen.

她的大拇指肿痛难忍.

She had a painful cut on her thumb.

她的拇指上有个疼痛的伤口。

用作名词(n.)

Don't suck your thumb; it's so dirty.
别舔手指头，太脏了。

He caught his thumb in the door.
他的拇指让门夹了。

用作动词(v.)

He thumbed through the address book looking for the number.
他翻阅地址簿，寻找号码。

You ought to thumb through this art book sometime.
你什么时候应该浏览一下这本美术书。

They managed to thumb a lift to Paris.
她们设法搭便车到达巴黎。

If we miss the last train we can always thumb a lift home.
如果我们赶不上末班火车，我们总可搭便车回家。

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