单词thumb
n.: 拇指；（手套的）拇指部分
v.: 翘起拇指请求搭乘（过路汽车）；示意请求搭便车；用拇指摸；用拇指捋
网络: 大拇指；大姆指；大母指
拇指:
the short thick finger at the side of the hand, slightly apart from the other four
（手套的）拇指部分:
the part of a glove that covers the thumb
笨手笨脚；笨拙；手指不灵活:
to be awkward with your hands so that you drop things or are unable to do sth
希望（计划）成功；期望如愿以偿:
to hope that your plans will be successful or that sth will take place in the way that you want it to
翘拇指（表示接受或成功）；拇指向下（表示拒绝或不成功）:
used to show that sth has been accepted/rejected or that it is/is not a success
完全受人支配；受制于人:
completely controlled by sb
翘起拇指请求搭乘（过路汽车）；示意请求搭便车:
to make a signal with your thumb to passing drivers to ask them to stop and take you somewhere
用拇指摸；用拇指捋:
to touch or move sth with your thumb
嗤之以鼻；蔑视:
to make a rude sign with your thumb on your nose; to show that you have no respect for sb/sth
以母指击对方
笨手笨脚地做;拙劣地弹(钢琴等)
(用手指)翻动
用拇指弹
〔美口〕翘起拇指要求搭乘
翻阅,用拇指翻脏[翻坏](书页等);反复读
【建筑】馒形饰
键击噪声
电话中的电报噪声
指状突
拇趾
复数：thumbs
现在分词：thumbing
过去分词：thumbed
adj.+n.:
sore thumb,left thumb
v.flick throughglance atflip throughleaf throughskim
v.pore over
i love it here, but dad always used to tell me how happy he was to have gotten away, out from under the thumb of his raising.
我热爱这片土地，但是父亲过去总是告诉我能够离开那里，不再被这片土地养育着，让他欢欣鼓舞。
If it were possible to press your thumb forward an inch or two, deep into your body, you would be touching one of your SI joints.
如果可以，试着拇指用点力往里面按1、2英寸，你就能触碰到你的骶髂关节了。
I particularly like to hold the back of her neck and then gently stroke her cheek with my thumb. . . while looking into her eyes.
我特别喜欢握着她脖子的后面然后用大拇指抚摸她的脸颊，同时注视着她的眼睛。
All other things being the same, we seem to use a rule of thumb "if it sounds familiar, it is more likely to be true. "
所有事情都是如此，我们似乎依赖某种经验法则，“如果常常听到，那它更有可能是真的。”
A good rule of thumb is to cut the size of your current backlog to contain no more requirements than could be completed in two releases.
一个感觉非常妙的方法是消减您当前积压的规模，使其仅仅包含在两次发布中就可以完成的需求。
But a few days later, the woodcutter took them to the forest again-and this time, Tom Thumb had no pebbles to help them find the way back.
可是，过了几天，伐木人再次把他们带进了森林。这次小汤姆没有小石子，他们找不到回家的路。
weighing more than 110 carats - roughly the size of a woman"s thumb - has gone on display in London"s Natural History Museum.
一颗重达110克拉的金黄色大钻石——与女子拇指一般大——日前在伦敦自然历史博物馆展出。
Tom is unwilling to be under his father"s thumb, so he decided to leave his home.
汤姆不愿意受他爸爸的控制，所以决定离家出走。
"Sounds reasonable, " Cal said. The sopped beer label curled around his thumb. "You want to see a movie? "
“听起来挺合理的，”卡尔说。浸湿的啤酒标签卷在他的拇指上。“你想看部电影么？”
With the Apple Click Wheel, iPod is very easy to use; you don"t have to take your thumb away from the wheel when you operate it.
配有iPod苹果触控式按键转盘，所以非常容易使用。在操作时，你的拇指甚至不用离开这个转盘。