contortions

contortions

1. to contort (v.

) 扭曲;

2. A hotel receptionist demonstrated taichi on the grass while the foreigners struggled to replicate her calm contortions to the delight of grinning photographers.

一位酒店接待员在草地上演示太极,我们这群老外怎么也做不到他那么镇定自如,摄影师在旁边忍俊不禁。

3. Mike: No way! Yoga is for girls. I'd rather do some weights or cardio at the gym than contort my body into painful posture s.

不可能!瑜伽是女孩子练的。要身体摆出那些令人痛苦的姿势,我还不如到体育馆去做做力量和心肺训练呢。

4. To insulate themselves from the vicissitudes of China’s state control, companies go through all manner of legal contortions when they list shares.

为了使它们自己从中国政府控制中隔离出来,公司在出示股票的时候要通过各种形式的法律扭曲。

5. Why go through these contortions?

为什么要经历这些扭曲了的过程?

6. 'Seventy times seven times didst thou gapingly contort thy visage - seventy times seven did I take counsel with my soul - Lo, this is human weakness: this also may be absolved!

主啊,这就是人类的缺憾,而这也是可以解决的!

7. They are obliged to resort to the most ingenious contortions and combinations

他们却不能不采取最巧妙的曲解和胡说。

8. They watch you twist and contort, struggling to free your self.

他们观看您扭转和歪曲, 奋斗释放您的自已。

9. They were also strapped into a giant centrifuge, where they had to read signals and answer questions despite dizziness, muscle contortions and involuntary spurts of tears.

他们还要被固定在巨型离心机里,经历头昏眼花、肌肉扭曲和无意识的流眼泪的同时,接收信号并回答问题。

10. His facial contortions amused the audience of schoolchildren.

他扮鬼脸逗得小学生观众都笑起来了。

11. His contortions and pratfalls seem to spring from some primal impulse or underlying pathology.

他抽筋和跌倒出糗似来自某种原始的冲动与潜在的病变。

12. He tried to guess how the strata behaved at the time the contortions formed.

他试图推断地层在扭曲形成时是如何变化的。

13. His watermelon-pink tongue lapped out, his whole body wiggled and his joyful contortions were as ludicrous as the gambolings of a mastiff.

他那西瓜瓤一样红的舌头不停地翻动着,他高兴得整个身子左右来回扭动着,这动作竟像看门狗跳来跳去一样可笑。

14. Considering the verbal contortions the prime minister generally employs to fend off criticism, that seems unlikely.

但想想首相应对批评时往往用语言扭曲事实,他这么做的可能性就微乎其微了。

15. You face has 9 muscles beneath your skin that you contort , flex , and move .

你的脸部皮肤下有9块可以扭曲、弯曲和运动的肌肉。

16. An almost Germanic-conservative design, the G8's interior is draped in impressive, unique materials and features some minor ergonomic gaffes that required some curious contortions to reach.

几乎日耳曼保守的设计,八国集团内部是挂在令人印象深刻的,独特的材料和功能,符合人体工程学的一些小失误,需要一些好奇contortions达到。

17. the contortions of an acrobat

卖艺人所做的软功

18. The acrobat went through various contortions.

卖艺人把身体作出各种扭歪的姿态。

19. alas, I nolonger disdained the company of sweet sopranos.but my vocal contortions were in vain; the uper octaves were denied me and I was unceremoniously expelled from Eden.

唉,我不再因为和甜美的女高音在一起而被嘲笑了。但是我的桑音变化对我毫无帮助,高八度音唱不上去了,我被从伊甸园合唱团赶了出来。

20. alas, I no longer disdained the company of sweet sopranos.but my vocal contortions were in vain;

唉,我不再蔑视团队里甜美的女高音。

21. Because they employ advanced output current contort, fluctuations in input voltage, load , and distributed capacitance have virtually no effect on brightness.

因对输出电流、负载和分布电容实施良好的控制,输入电压的波动对亮度无影响。

22. Therefore it is necessary to establish a set of laboratory quality control system for convenient use, which will pay an important role in quality contort.

因此,有必要建立一套完整又便捷的实验室内质量控制体系,在质控质量上发挥重要作用。

23. even the monkeys hurried from their path with contortions and grimaces which convulsed Passepartout with laughter

在这一天当中,沿途很少看到野兽,偶尔有几只猢狲一边溜着,一边挤眉弄眼作出各种怪相。这使路路通非常开心。

24. If you find the meditating positions you see on television threatening ”those with impossibly vaulted backs, and painful-looking contortions ”you should not worry.

如果你觉得在电视上看到的那些不可能做到拱形的背,看起来痛苦的扭转的冥想姿势有点可怕,你也不必担心。

25. He will elevate over three defenders, contort his body 180 degrees in the air, lean back as if reclining in an easy chair and nail that shot even if he's got somebody's fingernails in his eyeballs.

如果防守队员都把手防到他眼睛的时候,他将突破三名防守队员,在空中做180度的闪躲腾挪,作出就像惬意地斜躺在椅子一样的后仰跳投。

26. The Confucian ideal of loyalty can contort into a perverse concept of harmony that deprives people of voicing legitimate dissent.

孔子理想的忠诚可能被扭曲为另外一种意义上的和谐,剥夺了人们提出合法异议的权利。

27. For all the face-saving intellectual contortions, everyone knows it's Adam Smith and not Karl Marx at the rudder of this communist economy.

对于所有的顾全面子的智力扭弯,每个人它是亚当史密斯和不在这共产主义者经济的舵卡尔马克思。

28. Performance-conscious developers sometimes contort their object models to increase the lifetime of a.

对象的生命周期会不惜扭曲他们的对象模型。

29. children contort acceptation are natural things.

小孩子曲解词义是很正常的事。

30. Despite the multireligious contortions, it was very clear, of course, that the law was primarily aimed at Muslim schoolgirls.

尽管提出多宗教的例子,该法很清楚的,当然,主要是针对穆斯林女学生。

31. As you listen to it, let your face contort and express the music.

当你听它的时候,让你的脸扭曲并表达音乐。

32. Bishop's diary said that after those words were spoken, the most violent contortions of the exorcism began.

当小男孩说出些话以后,他的身体开始扭动,当扭动停止的时候,小男孩坐起来说:“他(恶魔)走了。”

33. contort one's features

愁眉不展

34. What we worry about is that history may repeat itself because Japanese government means to forget, contort, and conceal history, which we can never forgive.

我们担心历史会重演,因为日本政府妄图遗忘、歪曲、掩盖历史,是可忍,孰不可忍!

35. We had to go through all the usual contortions to get a ticket(= a difficult series of actions).

我们照例得费尽心机才能弄到一张票。

36. Our seats weren't bad. With only a gentle squint you could watch pain contort athletes' faces as they grunted through qualifying 800 meter rounds.

我们的座位位置不错。当运动员吼着闯过800米资格赛的那一刻,你只需略微斜视,就可以看到运动员那因为拼搏而痛苦扭曲的脸。

37. I'd rather do some weights or cardio at the gym than contort my body into painful postures.

我宁愿在体育馆里做一些力量或心肺功能训练,而不是把我身体扭成痛苦的姿势。

38. Mike: No way! Yoga is for girls. I'd rather do some weights or cardio at the gym than contort my body into painful postures.

我才不去!瑜伽是女孩子的运动。比起让自己忍受痛苦的扭曲姿势,我宁愿去体育馆举重或者做点心肺功能锻炼。

39. I didn't care how much I had to contort my body and my principles.

我毫不顾及自己的身体和原则被怎样扭曲。

40. contort verb.

扭曲;

41. To cause to twist or squirm; contort.

扭曲引起扭曲或蠕动;扭曲

42. contort my body into painful postures.

扭曲身体成痛苦的姿势。

43. contort vt.

扭曲, 弄弯;

44. contortions n.

扭歪;弯曲 [COM-, torquere twist;

45. TECHNOLOGY forces old laws to contort themselves in new ways.

技术迫使旧法则改变到新途线上来。

46. To alter the normal aspect of; contort

改变正常的形状;使扭曲

47. Ease of mounting: Many times impressive contortions are required to stow a good parachute in a good harness with acceptable results.

易于安装:(大家)常常会看到为了把一个备份伞装到吊带里面令人印象深刻的费劲。

48. contort a word out of its ordinary meaning

曲解词义

49. More common, but still inadvisable, are uses that contort an operator's "normal" meaning to force a fit to a given type.

更常见但仍不可取的是,改变操作符的“正常”含义以强行适应给定类型。

50. One poster is a little girl with short dark hair and white skirt, but her eyes are empty, I mean inane, no smile no brow, and her arms are prolapsed but contort the right one.

有张海报是个小女孩,短短的黑发,白色的裙子,但是眼睛很空洞无神,没有任何表情,胳膊自然下垂但是右胳膊确是反转的。

51. Sometimes when you play, you hit a note or chord, and your facial and body expressions contort to match the audio expression.

有时当你演奏时,你击出一个音符或和弦,你的面部和身体表情会扭曲以配合听觉的表达。

52. Sometimes you find lines, methods, or even entire classes that simply cannot be reached by tests, no matter how much you contort the code.

有时您会发现,不管对代码如何改造,仍然有一些行、方法、甚至是整个类是测试不到的。

53. The acrobat performed incredible contortions.

杂技演员的柔软杂技令人难以置信。

54. "But Pearl, not a whit startled at her mother's threats, any more than mollified by her entreaties, now suddenly burst into a fit of passion, gesticulating violently, and throwing her small figure into the most extravagant contortions."

珠儿刚才对她母亲的请求无动于衷,此时对母亲的吓唬也毫不惊惶;却突然大发脾气,做出激烈的姿态,把她小小的身躯弄得七扭八歪。

55. the contortions of a yoga expert

瑜伽高手的柔软动作.

56. Spell Breaker - Elven warrior trained to disrupt and contort magical energies.Initially has the Spell Immunity ability, which renders him immune to magic.Can also learn Spell Steal.Attacks land units.

破法者-受过分裂和扭曲魔法力量训练的精灵战士.一开始就有魔法免疫的能力.还可以学习法术偷取.攻击地面单位.

57. Holding a Pipa, Pian-pian slowly dances the flying contortions, between the changing lights and shifting coloured clouds, it really looks as if it's as mysterious and out of this world as flying.

紫雾缭绕。手拿琵琶的翩翩慢慢地跳着飞天柔术,灯光转换之间,彩云流动之中,竟然真如飞天般神秘而诡异。

58. The Ways to Contort the Iinclined and Equivalent Length of Combined Coal Face

综采工作面斜长等长的控制方法

59. The first thing an astute reader will have noticed is that my sample application went through some odd contortions to get its input data.

聪明的读者首先会注意到,我的样本应用程序通过一些不常见的、过于复杂的方法来获取其输入数据。

60. Either of two small Old World woodpeckers(Jynx torquilla or J. ruficollis), having a sharply pointed bill and the habit of twisting the head and neck into contortions.

蚁鹬生长于东半球的两种小型啄木鸟(蚁鴷属欧亚蚁鴷或蚁鴷属红胸蚁鴷),的任一种,有锋利尖锐的喙,习惯于扭着头和脖子成扭曲状态

61. But many fans agree, Mr.Pryor was at his best onstage, where his body contortions and earthy language conveyed, for many, a broad spectrum of African-American humor.

许多他的影迷认为,当他扭曲着身体,口吐脏话时,他表演得最好,而这则是一种非裔美国的独特幽默。

62. Ironically, it is Nessa's honesty and openness that most appeal to Holly, yet Nessa is working herself into an increasingly strong web of lies and contortions.

讽刺的是,那是Nessa对Holly真心的倾诉,但Nessa却让她自己陷入越来越深的谎言和被扭曲的事实。

63. Mr.Stryker, who has done some TV work in the past, said that to create his best radio voice, he often must contort his face in embarrassing ways.

过去做过一些电视工作的史崔克说,为了在广播时创造他最好的声音,他往往必须以令人尴尬的方式扭曲自己的脸孔。

64. These practices of intimacy focus attention on the human contortions of cultural landscapes.

这些私密的行为,使观者把注意力投放在人类对文化风景的扭曲的现象上。

65. Articulated, stackable and very artistic, Acrobots featurecrystal clear round heads, magnets in their hands and feet,flexible joints and the ability to contort into hundreds of shapes.

铰链连接,可叠加并且非常有艺术性,圆圆的水晶头,手脚上都有磁铁,灵活的关节能让你摆出上百种造型。

66. Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

高尔夫球运动是意在选成优雅结果一套笨拙的身体扭曲。

67. None of those excuses hold for Bowyer, who has not been worth all the public relations contortions Robson had to endure to bring him to Tyneside.

鲍耶还有什么借口能对得起当初忍着压力把所有公众最不欢迎的他带到泰恩河来的罗布森?

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