I sit twiddle my thumb wait for him to finish using the phone.

a twiddle of the knob

转动一下旋钮

Let's go – there's no point in sitting here twiddling our thumbs.

我们走吧——坐在这儿干等没有用。

twiddles on the clarinet

单簧管的装饰音

She was twiddling the ring on her finger.

她摆弄着手指上的戒指。

E . g . I have got to be busy, I can't sit down and twiddle my thumbs.

我总得做些事情, 不能这样无所事事下去.

Clutches should be dangled and chain handles should be twiddled around your fingers.

还有,你应该将那种无带皮包的手链绕在手指上,让皮包挂在那里.

I just sat there and twiddled my thumbs while he wrote the report.

他写报告时,我坐在那里闲得无聊.

He twiddled his thumbs while waiting for the interview.

等待面试时,他不停地玩弄手指.

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.