英语释义

1. to twist in a violent manner
features contorted with fury

2. to twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression
His face contorted in a grimace of pain.

3. to twist into an unusual appearance or shape

4. to give an unusual appearance or unnatural shape to by twisting
His face contorted with anger.

片语

curve成曲形

the contortions of an acrobat卖艺人所做的软功

give给；产生；让步；举办；授予

make contortions of the face扭歪面孔

Syntactic contortions句法歪曲

James Chance & ContortionsJames Chance is an American saxophonist.

winding蜿蜒曲折的

James Chance & The ContortionsJames Chance is an American saxophonist.

英汉例句

• Considering the verbal contortions the prime minister generally employs to fend off criticism, that seems unlikely.

  但想想首相应对批评时往往用语言扭曲事实，他这么做的可能性就微乎其微了。

• He tried to guess how the strata behaved at the time the contortions formed.

  他试图推断地层在扭曲形成时是如何变化的。

• GERMANY has a complicated relationship with military force, for reasons that are more than understandable. But what is one to make of its contortions over the intervention in Libya?

  德国和军事有着错综复杂的关系，其原因让人迷惑不已。但是究竟是什么使他在入侵利比亚问题上立场与北约不一致呢？

• The contortions are more theatrical the closer they live to north Africa.

  而且越是对北非依赖的国家就越做作的厉害。

• They are obliged to resort to the most ingenious contortions and combinations.

  他们却不能不采取最巧妙的曲解和胡说。

• His contortions and pratfalls seem to spring from some primal impulse or underlying pathology.

  他抽筋和跌倒出糗似来自某种原始的沖动与潜在的病变。

• Ease of mounting: Many times impressive contortions are required to stow a good parachute in a good harness with acceptable results.

  易于安装：(大家)常常会看到为了把一个备份伞装到吊带里面令人印象深刻的费劲。

• The @arg_sayer() example goes through a lot of contortions to obtain a rather limited result, but it is worthwhile for the several things it illustrates

  @arg_sayer() 绕了很多弯路，但只获得非常有限的结果，不过对于它所阐明的几方面来说，这是值得的

• But the contortions have begun to make sure that a default rating would not cause chaos.

  但是为了保证违约评级不至于引起混乱，只得开始用些「变通」的方法了。

• After viewing the first 100 shots on the monitor she asked me if she could do a couple of the contortions again because she believed she could make them better.

  在她看过第一次拍摄的100多张照片之后，她问我她是否能再做一组动作，因为她坚信，她能做的比第一次更好。

• Well--watching the contortions of the damned issupposed to be a favourite sport of the angels; but Ibelieve even they don't think people happier in hell.

  对——观察受罚者的痛苦扭动应该是天使们热衷的游戏。但我想，即使是他们也不会认为人在地狱里会更快活。

• These practices of intimacy focus attention on the human contortions of cultural landscapes.

  这些私密的行为，使观者把注意力投放在人类对文化风景的扭曲的现象上。

• They were also strapped into a giant centrifuge, where they had to read signals and answer questions despite dizziness, muscle contortions and involuntary spurts of tears.

  他们还要被固定在巨型离心机里，经历头昏眼花、肌肉扭曲和无意识的流眼泪的同时，接收信号并回答问题。

• But what is one to make of its contortions over the intervention in Libya?

  但是究竟是什么使他在入侵利比亚问题上立场与北约不一致呢？

• Brazilian law forbids giving public money to other governments, so legal contortions are inevitable.

  巴西法律明文禁止将公款提供他国政府，因此鉆法律漏洞无可避免。

相似词

deform使变形；使成畸形

distort扭曲；变形

misshape外形残缺的廉价巧克力（或其他食品）；奇怪形状

screw螺旋；螺丝钉；吝啬鬼

squinch[建] 内角拱；[建] 突角拱；对角斜拱

torture折磨；拷问；歪曲

warp弯曲，歪曲；偏见；乖戾