单词 | wriggle |
释义 | wrig·gle I. intransitive verb 1. < wriggled uncomfortably in his chair — Israel Zangwill > 2. < wriggled up the narrow gap between the cliff and the ice — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin > < the narrowest apertures were wide enough for him to wriggle through — R.M.Lovett > < an alluvial river wriggling downhill — A.W.Baum > 3. < careful to wriggle out of final opinions stated in quotable form — John Mason Brown > < attempts to wriggle free from the moral obligation — John Burke > transitive verb 1. < dancing girls … wriggled their hips in sensuous contortions — Harrison Forman > 2. < wriggled her little person out over their backs — F. Tennyson Jesse > < languages can wriggle themselves … into another compartment in a fairly short span — A.L.Kroeber > 3. < using every handhold on the rock in front I wriggled … my way up — John Hunt & Edmund Hillary > II. 1. 2. < the wavy ledges that once served as handles … degenerated to mere decorative wriggles — V.G.Childe > < a wriggle of barbed wire … marks the line of schism — A.J.Liebling > 3. |
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