under thumb / θʌm /

拇指以下拇指下方拇指下面拇指下

under thumb2 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
  2. the corresponding digit in other animals; pollex.
  3. the part of a glove or mitten for containing this digit.
  4. Architecture. an ovolo or echinus molding.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to soil or wear with the thumbs in handling, as the pages of a book.
  2. to glance through quickly.
  3. to play with or as with the thumbs.
  4. to solicit or get by pointing the thumb in the desired direction of travel.

under thumb 近义词

under thumb

等同于 oppressed

under thumb

等同于 subservient

under thumb

等同于 henpecked

under thumb

等同于 dependent

under thumb

等同于 downtrodden

under thumb构成的短语

  • thumb a ride
  • thumb one's nose
  • thumbs up
  • all thumbs
  • green thumb
  • rule of thumb
  • stick out (like a sore thumb)
  • twiddle one's thumbs
  • under someone's thumb

更多under thumb例句

  1. It was possible to pinch your thumb and forefinger together for a button press or rub the two fingers together to spin a dial.
  2. Six feet is a good rule of thumb for reducing the risk of getting infected, and there are ways to make sure people stay that far apart.
  3. Adding up all those costs, drawing on the latest research, the report comes up with with a total externalities cost of between $800 and $1,400 per tonne, with “at least $1,000” used as a reasonable rule of thumb.
  4. It differentiates between products and services and uses a binary thumbs up or down system like Facebook, rather than a point or star-ratings system like Google.
  5. Linking to your other blog posts from a relating one has become a rule of thumb in writing blog posts.
  6. And considering his massive music-industry thumb print, that “you oughta know” Jack Antonoff is an understatement.
  7. Pete stuck his thumb out at the age of 17 and hitch hiked out of Birmingham, England.
  8. The Flip-a-District project is a clown-gloved thumb on the scale.
  9. In the meantime, certain rules of thumb about drone use are self-evident.
  10. He had only one tooth, and he ate by using his thumb as a second incisor.
  11. Many persons impede their execution by not keeping the thumb independent enough of the rest of the hand.
  12. Willis introduced into his organs pneumatic thumb-pistons about the year 1851.
  13. He held the pin delicately between finger and thumb, and controlled her with his roguish eyes.
  14. He turned pages with a moistened thumb, took a pencil out of his pocket, passed both to the passengers of the roadster.
  15. And he jerked his thumb towards the tower where mademoiselle was a captive, and where at night "Battista" was locked in with her.