n.(名词)

1. 拇指；拇指部分；拇趾
2. 一拇指的宽度
3. 第一指
4. 【建】馒形饰
5. 键击噪声
6. 指状突
7. 笨手笨脚，笨拙
8. 手指不灵活
9. 翘拇指
10. 拇指向下
11. 动物肢体上类似人类拇指的部分

v.(动词)

1. 用拇指翻动，用拇指翻书，以拇指拨弄
2. 笨拙地摆弄，笨手笨脚地做
3. 靠搭便车旅行
4. 迅速翻阅（书页），翻动
5. 用拇指翻脏
6. 反复读
7. 拙劣地弹
8. （在路边）竖起拇指要求搭车，示意请求搭便车
9. 用拇指弹， 用拇指摸， 用拇指捋
10. 嗤之以鼻，蔑视
11. 笨拙处理，拙劣地处理
12. 弄坏，弄脏

n.(名词)

1. [C]拇指 the short thick finger at the side of your hand

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

Verb:

1. travel by getting free rides from motorists

2. look through a book or other written material;

   "He thumbed through the report"
   "She leafed through the volume"
   

3. feel or handle with the fingers;

   "finger the binding of the book"
   

1.(大)拇指
Yourthumb is the short thick part on the side of your hand next to your four fingers.

e.g. She bit the tip of her leftthumb, not looking at me.
她咬着左手的拇指尖，眼睛也不看我。

2.(手套的)拇指部分
Thethumb of a glove is the part which a person's thumb fits into.

3.(站在路边，伸出手，拇指向上)请求搭便车，拦车
If youthumb a lift orthumb a ride, you stand by the side of the road holding out your thumb until a driver stops and gives you a lift.

thumb

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

4. see also: well-thumbed

5.扎眼;碍眼
If you say that someone or somethingsticks out like a sore thumb orstands out like a sore thumb, you are emphasizing that they are very noticeable, usually because they are unusual or inappropriate.

e.g. Does the new housing stick out like a sorethumb 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？
e.g. In Japan a European stands out like a sorethumb.
欧洲人到了日本会极为惹眼。

6.无所事事;闲着无聊
If you say that someone istwiddling theirthumbs, you mean that they do not have anything to do and are waiting for something to happen.

thumb的翻译

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

7.在…控制下;深受…影响
If you areunder someone'sthumb, you are under their control, or very heavily influenced by them.

e.g. I cannot tell you what pain I feel when I see how much my mother is under my father'sthumb...
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。
e.g. She has Rachel firmly under herthumb.
她把雷切尔牢牢地抓在手心里。

8. greenthumb -> see green
tothumb your nose at someone -> see nose
rule ofthumb -> see rule

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1. This glove has a hole in the thumb.
   这只手套的大拇指处有个洞。
2. The baby sucked its thumb.
   那婴孩吮吸大拇指。
3. John always bites the thumbs at Jack's greedy action.
   约翰总是对杰克的贪婪行为嗤之以鼻。

be all (fingers and) thumbs

笨手笨脚be very clumsy

stick out like a sore thumb

显得别扭be very obvious or conspicuous and unpleasing

• The brasses that Louis Quinze might have thumbed.

  出自：H. James

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。

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。

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!

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.

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的uma；最初源自西日耳曼语的thumon-，意为拇指，手套上的拇指指套。