He twiddled his thumbs while waiting for the interview.

The log twiddled round and round in the river.

那根圆木在河水中转来转去.

He twiddled with the controls of the radio until he found the station.

他旋弄了一阵收音机的旋钮才找到了那个电台.

He twiddled with the knobs of the radio.

他旋弄着收音机的旋纽.

So are the linguistic twiddles.

作者对文字的拿捏也很有意思.

They kept the manager busy and left me twiddling my thumbs.

们让经理忙得不开交,而置于无所事事.

I sat twiddling my thumbs waiting for him to finish using the phone.

我坐着无聊地旋弄拇指,等候他用完电话.

The man twiddling his thumbs waiting for the bus to arrive.

男子闲著无聊旋弄两首大拇指等公车来.

Nor has Mr Marchionne been twiddling his thumbs in Europe.

在欧洲,马尔基奥尼也没闲着.

I am sitting around twiddling my thumbs.

我坐在那里闲得无聊.

He was twiddling with his watch-chain while he was listening to me.

他边听我讲边弄着表链.

I was twiddling my thumbs, waiting for my friend to arrive.

我闲着等我的朋友到来.

It was as simple as twiddling his thumbs, which he was now doing.

这事简单得就像他现在正转动着他的大拇指一样.

Then I twigged that they were illegal immigrants...

然后我突然意识到他们是非法移民。

She heard a twig snap.

她听到一根小树枝啪地折断了.

Uncle Fraser taught me to write funny symbols on ground with a pine twig.

富叔叔用小松枝教我在地上画出好玩的符号.

Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.

[谚]弯曲的树苗长成弯曲的大树(意指人的性格 、 品质决定于儿童时期的教育).

I don't quite twig what you are driving at.

我不太明白你的意思.

Looking forward to bare twig, a slight wind, the proud in the display.

仰望着光秃的枝杈, 微微随风, 在显示着高傲.

He can hear the snap of a twig.

他能听到树枝发出的噼噼啪啪的声音.

Samaria and its king will away like a twig on the surface of the waters.

至于撒玛利亚、他的王必灭没、如水面的沫子一样.