thumbs

TheRe was a simple, special elegance in the way she stood with heR thumbs in the pockets of a tailored plum-velvet coat.

她站在那儿，大拇指插在定制的紫黑色绒上衣的口袋里，有一股单纯、特别的帅劲儿。

Today John continues to turn thumbs down on drugs of any kind.

今天，约翰一如既往地讨厌任何形式的吸毒。

He was sitting all over a small rocking chair, twiddling his thumbs and smiling, with his feet on the fender.

他整个身躯坐到摇椅上，边捻弄著手指边微笑，双脚搁在炉围上。

I've seen other peoples' thumbs fly over the tiny keys, but I have large hands, and I never got the hang of it.

我看到其他人的拇指在小小的按键跳动，但我手很大，而且我从没得到过它的窍门。

Last week I walked in one, and a few people came up to me and gave me a thumbs up or patted me on the shoulder.

上礼拜我就走进那么一个，有些人围过来，对我竖大拇哥或者拍拍我的肩膀。

We say that we are "all thumbs" , meaning that our fingers seem to be too clumsy for the work.

我们常说自己“笨手笨脚”，意思是说我们的手指太笨拙，干不了某件工作。

And they were all communicating, and giving me the thumbs-up and saying you know we are going to get through this, we are going to recover.

他们都是交流，给我竖起大拇指，说你知道我们要去度过这，我们将恢复。

She finds a secretary's job very boring-some days there's almost no work for her at all, and she just sits there twiddling her thumbs.

她觉得当秘书很乏味――有时几乎无事可做，因此只是坐在那里抚弄大拇指玩。

She put her thumbs into her ears, wagged her fingers, crossed her eyes and made a loud farting sound with her tongue.

她将两个拇指塞入耳朵，煽着手指，斗起双眼，用舌头打出一个响屁样的声音。

She was holding a teaspoon in her two hands, pressing her thumbs against it as if measuring her strength against the base metal.

她双手拿着一个茶匙，用拇指使劲按着它，好象同这块普通金属较量力气似的。

On the day of the execution, he sat down on the electric chair, gave a thumbs-up and said: "I'm ready. "

行刑那天，他坐在电椅上，竖起大拇指，说道：“我准备好了。”

The main "thumbs down" for me was that there was no tour assistance located within the motel.

主要的“大拇指朝下”对我来说是不存在旅游服务汽车旅馆内的位置。

An ambulance driver outside Ajdabiya made the point with his hands: "Sarkozy, " he said while flashing a thumbs-up.

一名在阿吉达比耶外的救护车司机用他的手势说明这点：萨科奇，“他说话时竖起大拇指。”

" told to stand there, give the 'thumbs up', smile, stand behind all of the naked Iraqis in the pyramid take a picture, " she said.

英格兰说：“我被要求站在那儿，竖起手指，微笑着站在摆成金字塔形的裸体犯人后面。”

Time, the only thing between them and opposable thumbs.

时间，是它们拥有对生拇指唯一的障碍。

And if you don't like it, you can just give it a thumbs-down and see what's next.

假如你还不喜欢，你就给予拒绝，看看接下来是什么。

Tesla's powerful thumbs found soft and vulnerable places as he continued to squeeze the life from his would-be foe.

泰斯拉继续将生命力从他的假想敌体内挤走，有力的拇指捏到了柔软脆弱的要害之处。

So, it pays to research the customs of any country you might be visiting before you use the "thumbs up" or any other type of hand signal.

因此，在你去一个国家之前，先调查一下它“竖起大拇指”的传统用法以及其它的一些手势是值得的。

I can't tie up the ribbon round the parcel, You know my fingers are all thumbs.

你知道我笨手笨脚的，怎么也不能把绸带绑在包裹上。

Various page elements like images may have to time out, as well, so you could be stuck twiddling your thumbs waiting for a site to resolve.

各种各样的网页元素，如图片，可能一样要等待超时，因此你可能需要在桌面敲着手指来等待网站的解析。