英语释义

1. the short thick digit of the human hand that is analogous in position to the big toe and differs from the other fingers in having only two phalanges, allowing greater freedom of movement, and being opposable to each of them also a corresponding digit in lower animals

2. the part of a glove or mitten that covers the thumb

3. a convex molding ovolo

4. extremely awkward or clumsy

5. under control in a state of subservience
her father did not have her that much under his thumb
— Hamilton Basso

6. to turn over pages
thumb through a book

7. to travel by thumbing rides hitchhike
thumbed across the country

8. to request or obtain (a ride) in a passing automobile by signaling with the thumb

9. to leaf through (pages) with the thumb turn

10. to soil or wear by or as if by repeated thumbing
a badly thumbed book

11. to express disdain or defiance
thumb their nose at opulence
— Sales Management

12. to place the thumb at one's nose and extend the fingers as a gesture of scorn or defiance

13. the short, thick finger on the side of your hand

14. the part of a glove or mitten that covers a thumb

15. to ask for or get a ride in a passing vehicle by sticking out your arm with your thumb up as you stand on the side of the road

16. the short thick finger next to the forefinger

17. the part of a glove covering the thumb

18. to turn the pages of quickly with the thumb

19. to seek or get (a ride) in a passing automobile by signaling with the thumb

20. the short and thick first or most preaxial digit of the human hand that differs from the other fingers in having only two phalanges, in having greater freedom of movement, and in being opposable to the other fingers

片语

under the thumb of sb受……的影响

keep under the thumb of受制于

under the thumb of受···的支配

under the Murdoch family thumb在默多克家族的控制之下

英汉例句

• i love it here, but dad always used to tell me how happy he was to have gotten away, out from under the thumb of his raising.

  我热爱这片土地，但是父亲过去总是告诉我能够离开那里，不再被这片土地养育着，让他欢欣鼓舞。

• that error was what had brought the humiliating dictation by imf officials operating under the thumb of the us treasury.

  正是这个错误，才使听命于美国财政部的国际货币基金组织官员到亚洲来指手划脚。

• bloom towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential mayor dick cavanaugh's family.

  布隆姆-唐是一名小镇的警察，他受根深蒂固、权势熏天的市长迪克-卡瓦纳家族直接管辖。

• chechnya itself has been relatively calm in recent years under the thumb of the local strongman ramzan kadyrov, installed by mr putin as chechen president in 2007.

  车臣本土，近年在本地铁腕人物拉姆赞?卡德罗夫的统治下，相对平静，此人于2007年被普京先生任命为车臣总统。

• watching vic sitting behind a desk, filling out reports, all alone under the thumb of the fbi, it seemed clear that he was paying for his crimes in a way that cut him deeper than prison ever could.

  看着维克在fbi的节制下，坐在桌子后填写报告，而这也许就是他为本身所犯的罪行所付出代价，这代价可能比坐牢来的更大。

• merrill’s write-offs forced bofa into taking a second tranche of capital from the troubled asset relief programme (tarp), putting it under the thumb of america’s pay tsar.

  美林的勾销账务迫使美国银行从不良资产救助计划中拿走了第二部分，使自己处在了美国「偿还沙皇」的控制下。

• the bank’s bosses argue that the cost of coming under the thumb of the british government would have been higher still.

  巴克莱的老板辩解说，受控于英国政府的代价可能会更大。

• one of the two bits of a future palestinian state, the gaza strip, is under the thumb of the islamists of hamas and locked out of the diplomacy.

  作为未来巴勒斯坦国两块领土之一，加沙地带被哈马斯所占据，并在外交上实行了「锁国」政策。

• like iranians before them, egyptians may neither forget, nor forgive, those who kept them under the thumb of an oppressive ruler.

  正如他们的先例，伊朗人一样，埃及人既不会忘记，也不会原谅那些曾经把他们踏在脚下的统治者。

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