thumbing

The popularity of sending SMS messages can be witnessed first-hand as you see mobile phone users thumbing away at their keypads.

只要您看见移动电话用户的拇指在电话键盘上按动，就能够亲身体会到SMS消息的流行。

And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch. Just then, the witch to satisfy an itch went flying on her broom stick, thumbing for a hitch.

突然门栓开始锁不紧，巫婆就从那时起，为了满足欲望，乘着扫帚飞起，伸出拇指搭便车。

In the beginning there were several Asian-American independent bookstores that refused to carry the book after thumbing through it.

有几家美国亚裔独立经营的书店在粗粗翻阅这本书后一开始不愿代销。

It just keep you out of trouble, or at least improve your chances of thumbing a lift in Sardinia.

它能让你避免一些麻烦，至少增加了你在撒丁岛搭车的机会。

CONSUMERS are beginning to warm to the idea of viewing their novels and news on plastic tablets, thumbing buttons instead of flipping pages.

消费者们开始热衷于在塑料便笺上阅读小说和新闻，是用拇指按住阅读键而不是翻阅纸张的阅读。

Thumbing through the pages of my fantasies. I'm above you, smiling as you, drown, drown, drown.

翻看我的幻想书页。我在你之上，和你一样微笑，倒下，倒下，倒下。

When therefore thumbing recommenced his labors, they heard the money moving, and a sound of klink, klink, klink.

所以，当大拇哥又开始干时，卫兵听到了钱被挪动的声音和金子“叮叮当当”的碰撞声。

In moments where our concentration is broken it can be tempting to reach up into a bookshelf and start thumbing through a book.

有时候，当我们的注意力被打断时，我们就会情不自禁地走向书架，拿起一本书开始浏览。

In Sardinia it is seen as particularly offensive and a hitch hiker thumbing a lift is more likely to be run down, than offered a ride.

在撒丁岛，竖起大拇指是很具有攻击性和挑衅意味的，一个远足旅行者举起大拇指表示叫人走开，而不是要求搭车。

As he was thumbing through it, he noticed a really neat adaptation on architectural possibilities using the LEGO Bricks as a medium.

由于他是通过它thumbing，他发现一个使用作为传播媒介，乐高积木建筑的可能性确实整洁适应。

Jeff Gordon, an attorney and small business owner at the time, just happened to be thumbing through the newspaper and saw the ad.

杰夫·戈登，当时是一个律师，有自己的小公司。他无意中翻报纸，然后看到了这个广告。

While thumbing through some of my resource files today, I ran across these ten business leadership principles.

今天我在翻阅资料档案时，偶然看到了这十条商业领导的法则。

Even just thumbing through my sewing and knitting books, or browsing Amazon for new releases, can be relaxing enough for me.

甚至只要翻阅下自己订过的书刊或浏览下卓越网新上市的书籍，足以让自己得到放松。

I think I found it long ago in a passage from the book, Genesis, which caught my eyes while I was thumbing through my Bible.

我想我很久以前在《起源》这本书的一段话中发现了答案，当我翻查圣经的时候注意到了它。

Thumbing through the pages of my fantasies, pushing all the mercy down, down, down.

翻看我的幻想书页，抛开所有怜悯。

It's like quickly thumbing through a magazine as opposed to staring at a table of contents.

就像是快速浏览一本杂志而非紧盯着目录。

But is watching a film any less valuable than thumbing through the pages of a book?

然而，观看电影是否真的不象一页一页翻书那样有价值？

Then, in April 1980, I was picked up by a man who never told me his name, but was the strangest I met thumbing rides.

接着，在1980年4月，载我的是一个不肯告诉我名字的男人，他是我搭车以来碰到的最奇怪的人。

The suspect was thumbing through the telephone directory when one policeman detained him.

这个嫌疑犯正在翻弄电话簿的时候，被警察拘捕了。

The new interface evolves mobile text entry beyond thumbing on numeric keypads or miniaturized keyboards.

新式界面使手机文字输入不再局限于手机数字键盘或者外接迷你键盘了。