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单词 writhe
释义
writhe
verb[I]
uk
/raɪð/us
/raɪð/
to makelargetwistingmovementswith thebody:
扭动；蠕动
Thepainwas sounbearablethat he was writhinginagony.疼痛实在是难以忍受，他痛苦地扭动着身体。
She was writhingaround/abouton theground.她在地上打滚。
informal
toexperiencea verydifficultorunpleasantsituationoremotion, such asextremeembarrassment:
痛苦不安，难堪
He and four othersenatorswere writhing in theglareofunfavourablepublicity.他和其他4位参议员因负面曝光而十分难堪。
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(Definition ofwrithefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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writhe
verb[I]
us
/rɑɪð/
to maketwistingmovementswith thebody,esp. because you arefeelingstrongemotion:
He writhed inagonyat thethought.
(Definition ofwrithefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwrithe

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The writhing serpent passing through this item is clearly not par t of the static ceremonial bar.
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We see a world writhing, as it were, in a purgatory of its own making.
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We see the world writhing as it were in a purgatory of its own making.
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Surely our country, viewed from the air, will look like a series of writhing, intertwined snakes.
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The police did not believe that she was epileptic, as she had not been writhing on the floor.
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In other words, the baby is writhing in agony during those procedures.
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From then on the whole organisation had withered and writhed and produced less and less effective reports.
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As the victim writhes to death, he is watched by brother officers.
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He spoke about these animals, attractive little creatures—indeed they are—writhing in agony.
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There are other tests, known as writhing tests, in which the purpose is simply to count the number of times an animal writhes in pain before it dies.
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They have torn wealth from the ground, which is now writhing, upturning and subsiding, with houses looking as if they had been out on the spree.
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Prostaglandins require the baby to be brought on through a labour that can go on for hours, and it can be left writhing in agony as a result.
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They are laws which are not like domestic laws, which may stay the same, but inter-act on the changing laws of other countries and are a constantly writhing tangle.
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You will have seen the tight lips, the beady eyes, the sharp questions, the writhing of the victim in the chair—the breath and air of totalitarianism.
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Why is that other writhing in agony?
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