单词：thumbing
vi. 翘起拇指请求搭乘（过路汽车）, 示意请求搭便车（thumb的现在分词形式）
p. pr. & vb. n. of Thumb
thumb的用法和样例：
例句
用作名词(n.)
- Don't suck your thumb; it's so dirty.别舔手指头，太脏了。
- He caught his thumb in the door.他的拇指让门夹了。
用作动词(v.)
- He thumbed through the address book looking for the number.他翻阅地址簿，寻找号码。
- You ought to thumb through this art book sometime.你什么时候应该浏览一下这本美术书。
- They managed to thumb a lift to Paris.她们设法搭便车到达巴黎。
- If we miss the last train we can always thumb a lift home.如果我们赶不上末班火车，我们总可搭便车回家。
常见句型
用作名词(n.)
- This glove has a hole in the thumb.这只手套的大拇指处有个洞。
- The baby sucked its thumb.那婴孩吮吸大拇指。
- John always bites the thumbs at Jack's greedy action.约翰总是对杰克的贪婪行为嗤之以鼻。
常用短语
用作名词(n.)
be all (fingers and) thumbs- 笨手笨脚be very clumsy
- 显得别扭be very obvious or conspicuous and unpleasing
词汇搭配
- thumb index书边标目
- green thumb特殊园艺才能...
- thumb through浏览
- thumb piano拇指琴
- lady's thumb【植物
- thumb rule计算中近似法,经验法...
- thumb tack图钉
- thumb cleat拇指系索耳
- thumb wheel拇指转动,姆指旋轮,...
- thumb forceps[医] 按捏镊
- thumb up翘拇指
- thumb pin图钉
- thumb screw翼形螺钉
- thumb switch按扭开关,拇指开关...
- Tom Thumb大拇指汤姆(英国民间...
- thumb nut蝶形螺母
- under sb's thumb在某人的支配下, 在...
- thumb a lift搭便车
- all thumbs笨手笨脚
- stick out like a sore thumb显得十分不自然,惹人...
经典引文
The brasses that Louis Quinze might have thumbed.
出自：H. James
【近义词】
- leaf through迅速翻阅
- flick through(快速)翻阅
- glance at浏览, 扫一眼...
- flip through浏览
- skim撇去
- scan扫描
- look at（仔细地）看...
- turn over滚动
- leaf页
- pollex拇指
- hitch猛拉
- hitch-hike搭便车
- browse浏览
- riffle急流
- run through跑着穿过
- glance over浏览
- riffle through洗
- get得到
- lift举起
- a英语字母表的第一个字母...
- hook钩
- ride骑
- through通过
- over在 ... 的上方...
- glance扫视
- run跑
- finger指针
- quarter round四分之一圆
- flip掷
- flick快速的轻打
- hitchhike搭便车
- ovolo[建]圆凸形线脚装饰...
- riff即兴重复段