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fidgeting

/fij-it/US // ˈfɪdʒ ɪt //UK // (ˈfɪdʒɪt) //

烦躁不安,躁动不安,躁动,坐立不安

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to move about restlessly, nervously, or impatiently.
    • : to play with something in a restless or nervous way; fiddle: The boy kept fidgeting with the toy instead of paying attention.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cause to fidget; make uneasy: He was fidgeted by a hunch that the girl was going to cause trouble.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Often fidg·ets. the condition or an instance of being nervously restless, uneasy, or impatient.
    • : Also fidg·et·er. a person who fidgets.

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Examples

  • The formal study will involve a computerized fidget ball and carefully coded video observation of the participants.

  • He slouched in his chair, clutching a crumpled charcoal blazer in his arms, and kept fidgeting.

  • The video, which played on Peruvian television, shows a very nervous Van der Sloot chain smoking and fidgeting in his chair.

  • We know that thin people spend more of their days standing, walking, and even “fidgeting” than do overweight individuals.

  • He said he didn't want his family fidgeting him, and the surgeon said he would be all right in a few days.

  • To see a hostess fidgeting, constantly going in and out, argues ill for her tact in arranging the house for company.

  • They stood waiting near a lamp-post; he, fidgeting as usual, she, straight and still.

  • Althotas listened in silence, with no other token of impatience than fidgeting with a scalpel in his hands.

  • I fidgeted up and down the raft, abusing myself to myself, and Jim was fidgeting up and down past me.