Thumb

(noun.) the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb.

(noun.) the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb.

校对:露辛达

• This was found between the finger and thumb of the dead man. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• You go away like this, he pointed to the thumb, and come back like this, he touched the little finger. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Allow me to offer you these violets, presenting a small bouquet between his delicate finger and thumb. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• And there, on the margin of the page, were the partially blurred imprints of four wee fingers and the outer half of the thumb. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• So far as ability of control, of management, was concerned, it amounted to rule-of-thumb procedure, to routine. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It is unquestionably the mark of his thumb. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Mr. Chadband, leaning forward over the table, pierces what he has got to follow directly into Mr. Snagsby with the thumb-nail already mentioned. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He suggested it, by creasing his face with his two thumbs, from the corners of his mouth to his ears. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• There was nobody at all disposed to contest the point, as it happened; and so, on he went, with his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets, like a lamb. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I think I shall trade, also, said he, putting his thumbs in his waist-coat pockets, to the West Indies, for sugar, tobacco, and rum. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• They suffocated some in mud, and suspended others by the feet, or the head, or the thumbs, kindling fires below them. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Because man had ten fingers and thumbs, he learned to count in tens. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• No, no, I thank you, answered Smith, putting on a pair of his thickest beaver gloves as though to defend his thumbs. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He ran his finger along the scar; put his thumbs together over the kneecap and rocked the knee gently with his fingers. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Tarzan rose, and, going to one of the cupboards, returned with a well-thumbed geography. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• It was a history of the lives and trials of great criminals; and the pages were soiled and thumbed with use. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• This old man wears a hat, a thumbed and napless and yet an obdurate hat, which has never adapted itself to the shape of his poor head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

录入:麦克唐纳