A WORD, A WORLD
thumb
释义
- n.
- 拇指；（手套的）拇指部分
- v.
- 翘起拇指请求搭乘（过路汽车）；示意请求搭便车；用拇指摸；用拇指捋
- 网络
- 大拇指；大姆指；大母指
展开详细释义
n.
1.拇指
2.拇趾
3.指状突
4.电话中的电报噪声
5.键击噪声
6.【建筑】馒形饰
v.
1.翻阅,用拇指翻脏[翻坏](书页等);反复读
2.〔美口〕翘起拇指要求搭乘
3.用拇指弹
4.(用手指)翻动
5.笨手笨脚地做;拙劣地弹(钢琴等)
6.以母指击对方
词形变化
复数：thumbs 现在分词：thumbing 过去分词：thumbed
常用短语 8 组
- rule of thumb
- 经验法则
- thumbs down
- vt. 拇指向下；责备
- green thumb
- 有特殊园艺才能
- rules of thumb
- 经验法则；拇指规则
- tom thumb
- n. 大拇指汤姆（英民间故事中只有拇指大的主人公）
- under the thumb
- 被控制
- thumb drive
- 指状储存器；拇指驱动器
- thumb down
- [口]贬低；[口]拒绝
在例句中理解 33 句
Despite the pressure on salaries during the downturn, a good rule of thumb is to ask for a 10% higher salary, says Ms. de Lande Long.
德兰德隆表示，虽然经济低迷时期工资会受到一定的影响，要求对方在开出的价码上再加10%是绝对不会错的。
As there was no clear concept of continuous " " , resulting in one rule of thumb is to take employees first had to sign a contract.
由于没有明确的“连续”概念，导致众多企业效仿华为采取动员员工先辞职后重签合同的做法。
It is illegal for a husband to beat his wife with a stick larger in diameter than his thumb.
丈夫用直径大于其拇指的棍棒打太太是违法的。
Tom Thumb put out his head for a moment, and then popped it in again. Tom Thumb was a mouse.
汤姆大拇探一下头，又缩了回去。汤姆大拇是只老鼠。
As he spoke, a sluggish black beetle, about the half the size of his thumb, slid off the wall and came to rest on its back beside his feet.
他说话时，一只行动缓慢的黑甲虫从墙壁上落到了他脚边，这个有他拇指一半大的甲虫背部落地、无法动弹。
Different people respond differently, but it's a good rule of thumb not to take them for more than two days in a week.
但依照以往的经验来说一个星期最好不要超过两天。
The pair of sticks is maneuvered in one hand, between the thumb and fingers, and used to pick up pieces of food.
一双筷子用一只手操作，置于拇指和手指之间，用以夹起块片食物。
"I've never used these for food, " she said, kneading it between her index finger and thumb, a chef inspecting an unfamiliar piece of meat.
“我没用过这些食材，”她拿食指和拇指捏着，像位大厨检视不熟悉的肉片。
It is not rare to run into the image of a child with his thumb in his mouth against the blurred light of an ultrasound.
一个小孩的图像与他的拇指在他的嘴巴里反抗著对超音波模糊的光线并不是稀奇的。
Suddenly she had an imaginary thumb (a little stunted, she said, but it worked).
突然她有了个想象中的拇指（她说有点短小，但是能用）。
Granted, this is usually specific to the business domain, but this rule of thumb seems to hold up in most circumstances.
当然，上述讨论通常特定于商业领域，但这种经验之谈往往在很多情况下出现。
thumb and forefinger picked it up and brought it to the dealer's eyes and twirled it in the air.
拇指和食指把它捡了起来，拿到珍珠商的眼前，在空中滴溜溜地转动着。
As a rule of thumb, you can increase the size of the buffer pools as long as you get a corresponding increase of the bufferpool hit ratio.
首要原则是，只要能够获取一个对应的缓冲池命中率增加，就可以增加缓冲池的大小。
He pulled the door just as someone else pushed it in, injuring the tendons in his thumb.
他拉开门的时候正好某人在推门，导致了自己拇指的肌腱受伤。
As a rough rule of thumb, this makes Chinese labor at least double the cost of that in Indochina.
作为一个大体的经验，这使得中国劳工至少一倍，在印度支那的成本。
He took it up, rolled it quickly between thumb and forefinger, and then cast it contemptuously back into the tray.
他捡起珍珠，迅速地在拇指和食指之间转动着，然后轻蔑地把它扔回到托盘里。
Second part of the belly-press in the chin with the thumb hole, and then move up to the bottom of the ear.
第二部分腹部压在与拇指孔下巴，然后移动到耳的底部。
This creates our model with a thumb field (for a thumbnail picture), a caption, and a Boolean indicating if it is in our hypothetical set.
这会创建一个模型，其中包含一个thumb字段（用于缩略图）、一个caption和一个Boolean（表示照片是否在照片集中）。
So Tom unwound the thread from one of his needles, and each boy pricked the ball of his thumb and squeezed out a drop of blood.
于是汤姆拿出一根针，去掉了线。两个孩子各自往大拇指上戳了一下，然后挤出两滴血来。
Just press into it gently with your thumb. If it feels soft, it's ready to eat.
只要用你的大拇指轻轻地按一下外皮，如果是软的，就可以吃了。
Camel Hill looks to my eye like a fist, closed except for a thumb pointing to the sky, while Elephant Trunk Hill looks like a simple arch.
在我看来，骆驼山就像一只四指朝天的拳头，而象鼻山看起来像是一座简陋的拱桥。
Examine short information with thumb according to investigating the queer of 90 above, had not enough time, did not change.
根据调查90以上的同性恋者用大拇指查看短消息，来不及了，别换了。
There were two children down with the measles, his wife was ailing, and he had a whitlow on his thumb.
他有两个孩子正在出麻疹，他老婆也在害病，他自己大姆指上又长了个疔。
The number of options is reduced, and the available options and buttons are made larger so that it's easy to navigate with your thumb.
选项的数量减少，可用的选项和按钮越做越大，以便您能够轻松用姆指进行浏览。
As a rule of thumb, a country needs enough foreign exchange to cover three months' imports or to settle its short-term foreign debt.
一般来讲，国家需要足够外汇来满足3个月的进口货币需求，或是用于偿还短期外债。
Injection density is often used as a rule of thumb to estimate the difficulty of curing resonant combustion.
时常把喷射密度作为一个经验法则来估计解决共振燃烧问题时的困难。
A popular rule of thumb in the 1990s was that countries should be able to cover a year's worth of debt obligations.
20世纪90年代非常盛行的经验之谈是国家应有能力偿还一年期的债务。
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
既使没有任何其他的证据，光是大拇指就足够让我相信上帝的存在。
A good rule of thumb is to cut the size of your current backlog to contain no more requirements than could be completed in two releases.
一个感觉非常妙的方法是消减您当前积压的规模，使其仅仅包含在两次发布中就可以完成的需求。
I particularly like to hold the back of her neck and then gently stroke her cheek with my thumb. . . while looking into her eyes.
我特别喜欢握着她脖子的后面然后用大拇指抚摸她的脸颊，同时注视着她的眼睛。
I thumbed a lift into town.
我拦顺路车进了城。
a baby sucking its thumb
吮着大拇指的婴儿
She held the coin carefully between finger and thumb.
她小心翼翼地把那枚硬币捏在食指和拇指之间。