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拇指,竖起大拇指,姆指

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a diminutive hero of folk tales.
    • : an extremely small person; dwarf.
    • : General, nickname of Charles Sherwood Stratton.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Tom Brady, the prettiest of pretty boys, leads the Patriots.

  • There, many minority parents supported Tom Torklarson, who favored the education reform agenda.

  • Tom Rust, a spokesman for the House Ethics Committee, declined to comment to The Daily Beast.

  • Retired Det. Tom Nerney, formerly of the NYPD Major Case Squad, investigated Shakur.

  • Tom Cotton credits Harvard as the place where he “discovered political philosophy as a way of life.”

  • Tom—I felt out of myself in a way—as though I'd escaped—into—into quite different conditions——'

  • The conflict in Tom's puzzled heart sharpened that evening into dreadful edges that cut him mercilessly whichever way he turned.

  • She gave details of the singular mood that had come upon her with the arrival of Tony, but Tom hardly heard her.

  • Then, inexplicably, he shifted to the other side that the old, the normal Tom presented generously to the new.

  • Tom lingered a few minutes, watching them pass along the verandah to the room beyond.