twist
n. 一扭, 扭曲, 曲折, 歪曲, 螺旋状, 新手法 vt. 拧, 扭, 捻, 编织, 使扭转, 缠绕, 盘绕, 歪曲, 使转动, 使苦恼, 使混乱, 使旋转 vi. 转向, 弯曲, 缠绕, 扭动, 呈螺旋形
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教材释义与例句
扭曲；拧；扭伤
a twisting action or movement
捻；拧；扭伤；编织；使苦恼
to bend or turn something, such as wire, hair, or cloth, into a particular shape
扭动；弯曲
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A twisting force.
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Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
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The form given in twisting.
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The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
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A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
可数 不可数I was one morning walking arm in arm with him in St James's Park, his dress then being […] waistcoat and breeches of the same blue satin, trimmed with silver twist à la hussarde, and ermine edges.
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A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
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A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
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A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
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A rotation of the body when diving.
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A sprain, especially to the ankle.
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A twig.
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A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
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An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
可数 不可数I'm all agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.
Roy: Oh no, now I know there's a twist. I'm gonna spend the whole film guessing what it is. Damn you, Dominator! Moss: Just try and forget that there's a twist. Roy: Oh, how can you forget there's a twist?... Douglas: Oh, I've heard of this flick. There's a twist in it, isn't there?... I bet he's a woman, that bloke. No, you think it's the future, but it's actually set in the past. It's not Earth. It's all a dream!... They're all clones. He's his own brother. Everyone's a ghost.
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A small roll of tobacco.
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A girl, a woman.
可数 俚语 不可数(Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops"
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A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
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A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
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A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
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An appetite for food.
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Ellipsis of hair twist.
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The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
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A beverage made of brandy and gin.
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To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
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To join together by twining one part around another.
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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
June 8, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift twisting it into a serpentine form.
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To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
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To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
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To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
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To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
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To cause to rotate.
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To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
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To coax.
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In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
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To turn a knob etc.
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To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
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To wind into; to insinuate.
Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
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词源
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twist, from Old English *twist, in compounds (e.g. mæsttwist (“a rope; stay”), candeltwist (“a wick”)), from Proto-Germanic *twistaz, a derivative of *twi- (“two-”) (compare also twine, between, betwixt). Related to Saterland Frisian Twist (“discord”), Dutch twist (“twist; strife; discord”), German Low German Twist (“strife; discord”), German Zwist (“turmoil; strife; discord”), Swedish tvist (“quarrel; dispute”), Icelandic tvistur (“deuce”). The verb is from Middle English twisten. Compare Dutch twisten, Danish tviste (“to dispute”), Swedish tvista (“to argue; dispute”).
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