thumb

vt. 翻阅；以拇指拨弄；作搭车手势；笨拙地摆弄

vi. 用拇指翻书页；竖起拇指要求搭车

n. 拇指

n.

拇指；（手套的）拇指部份；

vi.

翘起拇指请求搭乘（过路汽车），示意请求搭便车；翻阅；

vt.

翻阅；作搭车手势；用拇指翻脏[翻坏]（书页等）；

变形

复数：thumbs过去式：thumbed过去分词：thumbed现在分词：thumbing第三人称单数：thumbs

双语释义

[C]拇指 the short thick finger at the side of your hand

英英释义

thumb[ θʌm ]

n.

the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb

同义词：pollex

the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb

a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse

同义词：ovoloquarter round

v.

travel by getting free rides from motorists

同义词：hitchhikehitch

look through a book or other written material

"He thumbed through the report"

同义词：flickflipriffleleafriff

feel or handle with the fingers

同义词：finger

词组短语

rule of thumb经验法则

thumbs down vt. 拇指向下；责备

green thumb有特殊园艺才能

rules of thumb经验法则；拇指规则

tom thumb n. 大拇指汤姆（英民间故事中只有拇指大的主人公）

under the thumb被控制

thumb drive指状储存器；拇指驱动器

thumb down[口]贬低；[口]拒绝

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

Don't suck your thumb; it's so dirty.
别舔手指头，太脏了。

He caught his thumb in the door.
他的拇指让门夹了。

用作动词(v.)

He thumbed through the address book looking for the number.
他翻阅地址簿，寻找号码。

You ought to thumb through this art book sometime.
你什么时候应该浏览一下这本美术书。

They managed to thumb a lift to Paris.
她们设法搭便车到达巴黎。

If we miss the last train we can always thumb a lift home.
如果我们赶不上末班火车，我们总可搭便车回家。

权威例句

thumb

thumb: [OE] The thumb is etymologically the ‘swollen’ part – an allusion to its greater thickness than the other fingers. Along with its relatives German daumen and Dutch duim, it goes back to a prehistoric West Germanic *thūmon. This in turn can be traced to Indo- European *tum- ‘swell’, which also produced English tumour and tumult. The b in thumb appeared in the early Middle English period, when it was still a two-syllable word (thumbe), and at first was pronounced, but it has fallen silent over the centuries.=> thigh, thimble, tumour, tumult

thumb (n.)

Old English þuma, from Proto-Germanic *thumon- (cognates: Old Frisian thuma, Old Saxon, Old High German thumo, German Daumen, Dutch duim "thumb," Old Norse þumall "thumb of a glove"), literally "the stout or thick (finger)," from PIE *tum- "swell," from root *teue- (2) "to swell" (see thigh). For spelling with -b (attested from late 13c.), see limb.

In some of the IE languages there is a single word for "thumb," which is called the "big finger," like NE big toe. Many of the single words are of similar semantic origin, based on the notion of "stout, thick." [Buck]

thumb (v.)

"to go through" (especially of printed material), 1930, from thumb (n.), though the related sense of "soil or wear by handling" dates from 1640s. Earlier as a verb it meant "to play (a musical instrument) with the thumb" (1590s). Meaning "to hitchhike" is 1939; originally the thumb pointed in the direction one wished to travel. Related: Thumbed; thumbing. To thumb (one's) nose as an expression of derision is recorded from 1903.

1. We aim for 80% contrast as a general rule of thumb.

我们认为的最佳的对比度是80%，这可以作为一般的经验值。

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2. That is, a user moves the sliding thumb to indicate, by its relative position, a proportional value for use inside the program.

也就是说，用户移动滑块，通过相对位置来指示程序内的比例值。

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3. Standards, guidelines, and rules of thumb

标准、指南和经验法则

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4. Microsoft’s printing solution is a reasonable rule of thumb. Put immediate access to functions on buttons in the toolbar and put access to function-configuration dialog boxes on menu items.

微软对打印问题的解决是合理而值得称赞的，工具栏上的功能可以快速地被选中，而把和设置有关的对话框放在了菜单项中。

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5. When the thumb is over the annotation, the annotated feature of the text is visible in the display (see Figure 11-10).

当处于注释位置时，可以看到文本的注释特性（见图11-7）。

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6. The scrollbar’s thumb is the small, draggable box that indicates the current position, and, often, the scale of the “territory” that can be scrolled.

滚动条上的滑块是一个可以拖动的小框，用于指示当前位置，而且通常显示可滚动区域的比例。

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7. What, then, is the meaning of dragging the thumb to one end of a calendar scrollbar?

那么，拖动日历中的滚动条又有何意义呢？

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8. His sore thumb puffed up.

他那疼痛发炎的大拇指肿起来了。

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9. Hints about the locations of these items appear in the “track” that the thumb of the scrollbar moves in, at the appropriate location.

当拖动滚动条到适当的位置时，就可以看见这些项目的位置提示信息。

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10. Interface standards are thus most appropriately treated as detailed guidelines or rules of thumb. Following interface guidelines too rigidly or without careful consideration of the needs of users in context can result in force-fitting an application’s interface into an inappropriate interaction model.

因此界面标准最适合作为具体的指导准则和经验法则，僵化地遵循界面指导准则或不考虑具体情境中的用户需求，会强迫应用程序界面适应不恰当的交互模型。

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