contortions

[kən'tɔ:rʃəns]

n. 扭歪, 弯曲
名词contortion的复数形式

例句与用法：

Her face contorted/was contorted with pain.

她的脸因疼痛而走了样。

词形变化：

形容词: contortionistic |

contortions

词形变化：

形容词: contortionistic |

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名词 contortion:

the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)

同义词：contortion, deformation

a tortuous and twisted shape or position

同义词：tortuosity, tortuousness, torsion, contortion, crookedness

contortions

■to contort (v.

) 扭曲；

■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。

■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。

■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。

■Why go through these contortions?

为什么要经历这些扭曲了的过程？

■'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！

■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。

■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。

■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。

■His facial contortions amused the audience of schoolchildren.

他扮鬼脸逗得小学生观众都笑起来了。

■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。

■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。

■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。

■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。

■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。

■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。

■the contortions of an acrobat

卖艺人所做的软功

■The acrobat went through various contortions.

卖艺人把身体作出各种扭歪的姿态。

■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。

■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。

■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。

■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。

■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。

■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。

■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。

■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。

■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。

■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。

■children contort acceptation are natural things.

小孩子曲解词义是很正常的事。

■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。

■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。

■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。”

■contort one's features

愁眉不展

■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！

■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。

■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。

■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。

■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。

■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。

■contort verb.

扭曲;

■To cause to twist or squirm; contort.

扭曲引起扭曲或蠕动；扭曲

■contort my body into painful postures.

扭曲身体成痛苦的姿势。

■contort vt.

扭曲， 弄弯；

■contortions n.

扭歪;弯曲 [COM-, torquere twist;

■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。

■To alter the normal aspect of; contort

改变正常的形状;使扭曲

■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。

■contort a word out of its ordinary meaning

曲解词义

■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。

■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。