twiddle

英 [ˈtwɪdl]

美 [ˈtwɪdl]

v.  (常因紧张或无聊)旋弄，摆弄，捻弄(物件)
n.  拧; 转动; (图案等的)修饰性曲线，螺旋形线条; (乐曲的)装饰音

现在分词：twiddling　过去式：twiddled　复数：twiddles　第三人称单数：twiddles　过去分词：twiddled　

BNC.21174 / COCA.27648

习惯用语

v.

twiddle your thumbs
• 抱手旋弄大拇指
  to move your thumbs around each other with your fingers joined together
• （等待之际）无所事事
  to do nothing while you are waiting for sth to happen

牛津词典

verb

• （常因紧张或无聊）旋弄，摆弄，捻弄（物件）
  to twist or turn sth with your fingers often because you are nervous or bored
  1. He twiddled with the radio knob until he found the right programme.
     他转动了一会收音机旋钮才找到了合意的节目。
  2. She was twiddling the ring on her finger.
     她摆弄着手指上的戒指。

noun

• 拧；转动
  a twist or turn
  1. a twiddle of the knob
     转动一下旋钮
• （图案等的）修饰性曲线，螺旋形线条；（乐曲的）装饰音
  a decorative twist in a pattern, piece of music, etc.
  1. twiddles on the clarinet
     单簧管的装饰音

柯林斯词典

• VERB 旋弄;捻弄;摆弄
  If youtwiddlesomething, you twist it or turn it quickly with your fingers.
  1. He twiddled a knob on the dashboard...
     他转动着仪表板上的一个旋钮。
  2. She had sat there twiddling nervously with the clasp of her handbag.
     她坐在那里紧张地摆弄着手提包的扣钩。
• totwiddleyourthumbs→ see:thumb

英英释义

noun

• a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns

verb

• manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner
  1. He twiddled his thumbs while waiting for the interview
  Synonym:fiddle with
• turn in a twisting or spinning motion
  1. The leaves swirled in the autumn wind
  Synonym:twirlswirlwhirl

双语例句

• These ladies have nothing to do But sit there and twiddle their thumbs to while away their time But there seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about her, to pass away the time.
  她们都闲的无聊，只好坐在那里谈论别人的私事以消磨时光但是，看来并没有这种迹象，于是，她只好环视周围的一切来消磨时光。
• Sometime I get caught up in the middle of updating one page when I want to move onto the next and twiddle with that and come back to my update later.
  有时当我想继续浏览下一页然后再回来更新时，却被困在上一页的更新中。
• The Butterfly-Operation units in the conventional FFT are composed of imaginary multipliers and adders. The speed of FFT is constrainted by the complexity of multipliers. Moreover the twiddle factors take up many resources.
  传统FFT算法中蝶形运算单元是通过复数乘法器和加法器实现的，由于乘法逻辑的复杂性，制约了FFT的计算速度，同时旋转因子的存储也占用较多资源。
• In this paper, a new algorithm solution for quadratic programming twiddle iteration algorithm was established.
  文章提出求二次规划的最优解的一种算法&旋转迭代算法。
• An Application of Twiddle Iteration Algorithm of Simplex Method in Quadratic programming
  单纯形法的旋转迭代算法在二次规划中的应用
• In this paper some fundamental methods of fast Fourier transform ( FFT) are mentioned with a highly composite twiddle factor FFT: algorithm discussed in particular.
  本文概述了快速Fourier变换（FFT）的基本方法，着重讨论了高合成数FFT旋转因子算法。
• This method is called "minimum ratio twiddle iteration algorithm"; using this method, we can avoid cycling of simples method and get the shadow price easily.
  此方法我们称为最小比值旋转迭代法，应用此方法还可以避免单纯形法中的循环问题，同时也容易求出影子价格。
• Why bother trying to compete for world firsts if the leading guild has to twiddle their thumbs waiting for the next stage to be open, watching everyone and his mother catch up.
  世界第一的公会，为什么要自寻烦恼，停下来玩弄着大拇指等待进入所谓的“下一阶段”，看着其他人慢吞吞地走上来？
• The data and twiddle factor address generation hardware is shown to have higher speed than previous methods.
  该算法易于用硬件实现，其操作数访问地址的产生速度快于已有的算法。
• Twiddle factor merged frequency-decimal FFT algorithm& a new explanation for RCFA
  旋转因子合并的频率抽取FFT算法&RCFA的新解释