squirm
vi. 蠕动, 辗转不安 n. 蠕动
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教材释义与例句
蠕动
蠕动，扭动；羞愧，不舒服
释义与例句
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1.
A twisting, snakelike movement of the body.
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1.
To twist one's body with snakelike motions.
不及物The prisoner managed to squirm out of the straitjacket.
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2.
To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.
不及物I recounted the embarrassing story in detail just to watch him squirm.
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3.
To evade a question, an interviewer etc.
词汇关系
词源
First recorded 1690's, originally used of eels; cognate with Scots squimmer (“to wriggle, squirm”). Of uncertain origin. Compare dialectal quirm, whirm (“to disappear quickly, vanish suddenly and mysteriously”), Norwegian kverva (“to turn around, take away, remove, shrink”), from Old Norse hverfa (“to turn, vanish”). Alternatively, perhaps imitative or related to worm (in the sense of writhing movement) or swarm.
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