twiddle

英 [ˈtwɪdl]

美 [ˈtwɪdl]

v.  (常因紧张或无聊)旋弄，摆弄，捻弄(物件)
n.  拧; 转动; (图案等的)修饰性曲线，螺旋形线条; (乐曲的)装饰音

现在分词：twiddling　过去式：twiddled　复数：twiddles　第三人称单数：twiddles　过去分词：twiddled　

BNC.21174 / COCA.27648

习惯用语

v.

twiddle your thumbs
• 抱手旋弄大拇指
  to move your thumbs around each other with your fingers joined together
• （等待之际）无所事事
  to do nothing while you are waiting for sth to happen

牛津词典

verb

• （常因紧张或无聊）旋弄，摆弄，捻弄（物件）
  to twist or turn sth with your fingers often because you are nervous or bored
  1. He twiddled with the radio knob until he found the right programme.
     他转动了一会收音机旋钮才找到了合意的节目。
  2. She was twiddling the ring on her finger.
     她摆弄着手指上的戒指。

noun

• 拧；转动
  a twist or turn
  1. a twiddle of the knob
     转动一下旋钮
• （图案等的）修饰性曲线，螺旋形线条；（乐曲的）装饰音
  a decorative twist in a pattern, piece of music, etc.
  1. twiddles on the clarinet
     单簧管的装饰音

柯林斯词典

• VERB 旋弄;捻弄;摆弄
  If youtwiddlesomething, you twist it or turn it quickly with your fingers.
  1. He twiddled a knob on the dashboard...
     他转动着仪表板上的一个旋钮。
  2. She had sat there twiddling nervously with the clasp of her handbag.
     她坐在那里紧张地摆弄着手提包的扣钩。
• totwiddleyourthumbs→ see:thumb

英英释义

noun

• a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns

verb

• manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner
  1. He twiddled his thumbs while waiting for the interview
  Synonym:fiddle with
• turn in a twisting or spinning motion
  1. The leaves swirled in the autumn wind
  Synonym:twirlswirlwhirl

双语例句

• Sometime I get caught up in the middle of updating one page when I want to move onto the next and twiddle with that and come back to my update later.
  有时当我想继续浏览下一页然后再回来更新时，却被困在上一页的更新中。
• I sit twiddle my thumb wait for him to finish using the phone.
  我坐著无聊地旋弄拇指，等候他用完电话。
• Butterfly design, address, independent dual-port memory design, the design of the complex multiplier and twiddle factor MATLAB software generation. Fourth, on the basis of the outline design, image generation module detailed design.
  详细介绍了蝶形器的设计、地址产生、独立双端口存储器设计、复数乘法器的设计和旋转因子的MATLAB软件生成。第四，在概要设计的基础上，对图像生成模块进行了详细的设计。
• Twiddle the dial of a short-wave radio and you never know what you will get.
  调弄短波收音机的信号，你永远不知道自己会收到什么电台。
• He twiddle with the control of the radio until he find the station.
  他旋弄了一阵收音机的旋钮才找到了那个电台。
• These ladies have nothing to do But sit there and twiddle their thumbs to while away their time But there seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about her, to pass away the time.
  她们都闲的无聊，只好坐在那里谈论别人的私事以消磨时光但是，看来并没有这种迹象，于是，她只好环视周围的一切来消磨时光。
• Fast speed frequency analysis of shock and vibration signal is realized by application of FFT recursion algorithm based on split-radix and twiddle vector.
  系统中分裂基、旋转矢量FFT的递归算法的应用实现了对冲击振动信号的快速频谱分析。
• In this paper some fundamental methods of fast Fourier transform ( FFT) are mentioned with a highly composite twiddle factor FFT: algorithm discussed in particular.
  本文概述了快速Fourier变换（FFT）的基本方法，着重讨论了高合成数FFT旋转因子算法。
• An Application of Twiddle Iteration Algorithm of Simplex Method in Quadratic programming
  单纯形法的旋转迭代算法在二次规划中的应用
• Twiddle factor FFT algorithm
  旋转因子快速傅里叶变换算法