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twisting

/twis-ting/US // ˈtwɪs tɪŋ //

缠绕,扭曲,缠绕的,捻线

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the practice of an insurance agent of tricking the holder of a life insurance policy into letting it lapse so that the insured will replace it with one of a company represented by the agent.

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Examples

  • Its gauge of 14 AWG is well above the industry average cable thickness, making it more likely to survive repeated kinking and twisting.

  • We’ve been forced to cope almost constantly with the twisting, morphing uncertainties that life has thrown at us.

  • One flip One twist She competed this version with a tucked full twist, as well as a Yurchenko vault with a layout and no twisting.

  • Through its 500-plus pages, Clinton and Patterson’s novel puts their respective expertise to good use in a twisting plot.

  • Wire warehouse racks upheld corridors of glass jars, the twisting orange fingers of Cordyceps growing atop cakes of myceliated rice.

  • Here, only the twisting grey concrete under his tires disturbed the desolate wild.

  • The book becomes so dramatic and twisting, the ending—how she ends it--is key.

  • Then a larger-scale map revealed a twisting, narrow road up to the Col de Lizarrieta, at around 1,300 feet.

  • Titanic sat in the rear of the room, twisting his fingers nervously, till he was called.

  • Don't think it's an easy trip, the twisting mountain passes inevitably slow you down.

  • Ripperda's equipage wound down a long and twisting defile between two precipitous rocks.

  • He had a waxed mustache which he was in the habit of twisting whenever in deep thought.

  • The labor in pressing and twisting is entirely done by hand, and attended to with the most scrupulous care.

  • Up and up went the trail, twisting back and forth in long horseshoe curves.

  • Bud, twisting his head, saw a pair of slippered feet beside the running board.