thumbing

He had the drawer open and was thumbing through the files .

他打开抽屉，翻看着档案。

Thumbing a lift had once a carefree , easy-going image .

伸手搭便车曾经给人以轻松随意的形象。

I went out onto the road to start thumbing .

我走到公路上，竖起拇指要求搭车。

Get out those old picture albums and start thumbing through them .

找出老照片并且开始翻阅。

His heart was thumbing as he approached the door .

当他快靠近门口的时候，心怦怦地跳得厉害。

I was thumbing through a magazine when a secretary came in .

我正在翻阅一本杂志，秘书走了进来。

The suspect was thumbing through the telephone directory when one policeman detained him .

这个嫌疑犯正在翻弄电话簿的时候，被警察拘捕了。

A man in the corner of the room was thumbing out a tune on an old piano .

在房间的角落，一个男人正在旧钢琴上用力地弹奏曲子。

She is thumbing rides to Fremont Street to see her grandfather .

她要搭车去弗里蒙特街去看她的外祖母。

Brenda sat in the doctor 's office thumbing through a magazine while she waited .

布伦达坐在医生办公室等候时，随手翻开了一本杂志。

I was thumbing through an old magazine when a secretary came in to say that Mr Smith was ready to see me .

我正在翻阅一本旧杂志，一位秘书进来说史密斯先生等着见我。

It is a thumbing of the nose at hegemony .

而是对霸权的蔑视。

And even at our maximum speed , it took the liberty of thumbing its nose at the frigate by running a full circle around us !

甚至在我们的船以最快速度航行的时候，它竟然能够绕船一周，似乎跟我们开玩笑呢！

Navigating through content-rich pages ," thumbing " from one Web site to another and back again will cease to be such a tedious exercise .

浏览网页上的丰富内容，在不同网站之间自由切换不用费吹灰之力。

I think I found it long ago in a passage from the book , Genesis , which caught my eyes while I was thumbing through my Bible .

我想我很久以前在《起源》这本书的一段话中发现了答案，当我翻查圣经的时候注意到了它。

Thumbing vaguely through it , he chanced on a chapter called " The Death of Birth , " about the extinction of species .

由于大致地翻看着这本书，他偶然发现了关于物种灭亡而称之为“出生的致死原因”那一章。

Restructuring all of its debt into bonds issued under local law would be one way of thumbing its nose at the pesky holdouts and the US courts .

将所有债务重组为按照当地法律发行的债券，将是向恼人的拒绝重组债权人和美国法庭表达蔑视的一种方式。

Dave Morin is methodically thumbing the chain links on his silver bracelet as he parses the difficulties of designing products for mobile devices .

大卫•莫林一边分析为移动设备设计产品的难处，一边有条不紊的摆弄着自己银手镯上的链子。

She was thumbing the dictionary .

她在翻字典。

This new breed of bourgeois often develops an identity crisis thumbing their nose to Sanlitun and the " foreigners " who fill the bars , clubs and restaurants .

这帮新兴资产阶级们自命不凡，对三里屯的那些酒吧、夜店和餐厅嗤之以鼻，在他们眼里，去那些地方消费的‘‘同胞’’们俗不可耐。

Thumbing his nose at such notions as resource scarcity , Mr Simon wagered that the price of any five commodities chosen by Mr Ehrlich would go down over the following decade .

西蒙对其强调资源稀缺性的观点嗤之以鼻，他打赌说，在随后到来的十年中，埃氏挑选的那五种商品价格必会下跌。

Thumbing through an atlas of Mongolia , I saw a symbol for what looked like the wall , but when I checked it out in the legend , it was not the Great Wall of China .

林赛：在翻看一本蒙古地图册的时候，我发现了一个像长城的符号，但我在图例中查找时，却发现它并不是中国长城。

In modern times , the Chinese medicine using maturity , development innovation , constantly strive to use more of the dialectical concept , especially focuses on the disease is healed modern today , many scholars are like using the classical , while thumbing through to make research .

从古至今，中医学在现代医学的运用渐趋成熟，发展不断力求创新，所运用的辨证理念越来越多，尤其重在医治现代难治的疾病，现今很多学者们都喜欢运用经方，而翻阅古典去作出研究。

Researchers found that drivers in a simulator reacted slowly to sudden traffic emergencies regardless of whether they were thumbing texts into their smartphones or dictating them to Google Glass . Glass-wearing drivers did recover more quickly from near accidents than hand-texters .

研究人员发现当戴着模拟装置时，不管司机们是用智能手机还是戴着谷歌眼镜，对突如其来的应急交通状况反应要明显慢。但戴着眼镜确实比攥着手机更能快速对附近的意外事件作出反应。