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/ˈθʌm/ 名词 B1

中文: 大拇指、拇指、大指、大拇哥

  1. The shortest and thickest digit of the hand that for humans has the most mobility and can be made to oppose (moved to touch) all of the other fingers.
  2. The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider. · a scroll-bar thumb
  3. A thumbnail picture. (colloquial)
  4. A top hatch plate for covering an excavator bucket, used to keep material in the digger bucket after scooping it up, and not letting it spill out.

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“He seems to have a mania for diamonds,” said Morcerf, smiling, “and I verily believe that, like Potemkin, he keeps his pockets filled, for the sake of strewing them along the road, as Tom Thumb did his flint stones.”
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第551页 · C1
They took him into the house, and a big man picked him up between his finger and thumb and said he was not dead but half choked.
《The Jungle Book》,第65页 · B2
The blow had struck home, and Danglars was entirely vanquished; with a trembling hand he took the two letters from the count, who held them carelessly between finger and thumb, and proceeded to scrutinize the signatures, with a minuteness that the count might have regarded as insulting, had it not suited his present purpose to mislead the banker.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第479页 · C1
Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,
《A Child's Garden of Verses》,第16页 · C1

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