writhe

英 [raɪð]

美 [raɪð]

v.  (常指因剧痛不停地)扭动，翻滚

过去式：writhed　第三人称单数：writhes　复数：writhes　过去分词：writhed　现在分词：writhing　

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Collins.1 / BNC.22822 / COCA.13177

牛津词典

verb

• （常指因剧痛不停地）扭动，翻滚
  to twist or move your body without stopping, often because you are in great pain
  1. She was writhing around on the floor in agony.
     她痛得在地板上直打滚。
  2. The snake writhed and hissed.
     那蛇蠕动着，发出嘶嘶的声音。
  3. He was writhing (= suffering a lot) with embarrassment.
     他难堪得无地自容。

柯林斯词典

• VERB (通常指由于剧痛或不适而)扭动，翻滚
  If youwrithe, your body twists and turns violently backwards and forwards, usually because you are in great pain or discomfort.
  1. He was writhing in agony...
     他痛苦地翻滚着。
  2. The subject makes her writhe with embarrassment...
     这个话题让她难堪得坐立不安。
  3. The shark was writhing around wildly, trying to get free.
     鲨鱼拼命挣扎，试图逃脱。

英英释义

verb

• to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
  1. The prisoner writhed in discomfort
  2. The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace
  Synonym:wrestlewrigglewormsquirmtwist

双语例句

• Of course students will writhe under such unjust treatment.
  当然学生会对这样不公正的对待感到不快。
• I generally avoid caffeine after lunchtime but sometimes I wonder if I ought to avoid talking to people in the afternoons, too, for the things they say linger in the mind where they writhe and ferment until night.
  我午后一般不喝含咖啡因的饮料，但有时我怀疑下午是否也应该避免跟人交谈，因为别人说的话会盘踞在我的脑海里，到夜里仍翻腾不休。
• He was writhing in agony
  他痛苦地翻滚着。
• The subject makes her writhe with embarrassment
  这个话题让她难堪得坐立不安。
• Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell? '
  当你得到安息的时候，我却要在地狱的折磨里受煎熬，这还不够使你那狠毒的自私心得到满足吗？
• The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!
  虫子越受苦，我就越想碾碎它们。
• Students writhe under such great pressure.
  学生们因压力过大而苦恼。
• RESULTS: Mouse's wet excrement numbers, writhe numbers and restrain rates of rabbit's small intestine in the bornyl acetate group were obviously less than that in the negative group, however, empty rates of mouse's stomach had no obvious different with the negative group.
  结果：乙酸龙脑酯组小鼠湿粪数、扭体次数明显少于空白对照组，家兔离体小肠运动抑制率明显低于空白对照组，小鼠胃排空率与空白对照组相比无显著性差异。
• Ashkelon will see it and be afraid; gaza also, and it will writhe much in anguish; and ekron, for her expectation will have been confounded.
  亚实基伦看见必惧怕；迦萨看见必甚痛苦；以革伦因失了盼望蒙羞。
• Equity markets are thus likely to remain jittery for some time, as debt-laden countries and companies continue to writhe in pain.
  因此股市的恐慌可能还会持续一段时间，负债累累的国家和企业将继续在痛苦中挣扎。