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单词 wriggle
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wriggle
verb
uk
/ˈrɪɡ.əl/us
/ˈrɪɡ.əl/
[IorT]
totwistyourbody, ormovepartofyourbody, withsmall,quickmovements:
扭动；蠕动
Alargewormwriggled in thefreshlydugearth.一条大虫子在新翻过的地里蠕动。
Baby Martha was wriggling hertoesin thesand.小婴儿玛莎在沙子中扭动着脚趾。
[I+ adv/prep]
tomovesomewhereusingshort,quicktwistingmovements:
蜿蜒前行；扭动爬行
Thetunnelwaslowanddark, but shemanagedtowriggle throughto the otherside.地道又低又暗，但她还是设法爬到了另一端。
Aftertwistingandturningfor a while, hemanagedto wrigglefree.一阵扭动之后，他设法挣脱了出来。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making short, sudden movements
  • aquiver
  • convulse
  • convulsion
  • convulsive
  • cringe
  • flick
  • jerkily
  • jerkiness
  • jerky
  • jig
  • jiggle
  • quake
  • quiver
  • recoil
  • shaky
  • shudder
  • squirm
  • toss
  • tremulous
  • whip
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Moving on your hands and legs or on your stomach
Bending, twisting and curving

Idiom

wriggle off the hook

Phrasal verb

wriggle out ofsomething
wriggle
noun[Cusually singular]
uk
/ˈrɪɡ.əl/us
/ˈrɪɡ.əl/
anactof wriggling:
扭动；蠕动
With a wriggle, shemanagedtocrawlthrough thegap.她身子一扭，设法爬过了缝隙。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Moving on your hands and legs or on your stomach
  • clamber
  • claw
  • clawyourway(somewhere)idiom
  • crawl
  • four
  • grovel
  • on all foursidiom
  • pull
  • scramble
  • shimmy
  • slither

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Bending, twisting and curving

Idiom

get a wriggle on
(Definition ofwrigglefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

wriggle| American Dictionary

wriggle
verb[I/T]
us
/ˈrɪɡ·əl/
to makesmallquickmovementswith thebody,turningfromsidetoside:
[I]Somehow hetwistedhimself about and wriggledfreeof Farkas’sgripanddancedaway.
(Definition ofwrigglefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He wriggles, twists and turns at every opportunity to defend the somersault that he has made since 1977.
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He is just wriggling out of it by substituting another statement.
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He spent a substantial amount of time wriggling around on this issue.
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I thought that he wriggled a good deal during the course of his remarks.
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He has been unable to deny it, despite his wriggling and writhing.
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There is no possibility of wriggling round that.
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I see one or two of them wriggling, so they clearly do remember it.
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You may cut off its head, and the rest of the body still wriggles about.
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I do not think that any wriggling can get them out of that obligation.
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He is simply interested in wriggling through the series of political crises with which he finds himself faced from time to time.
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They are wriggling and wriggling and wriggling because, in reality, they are cutting and cutting and cutting, but cannot admit it.
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He has so far wriggled out of the expression "a big shake-out".
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They wriggled like anything, changed direction suddenly, hurried backwards and forwards and concealed their retreat with a cloud of ink.
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If he cannot say that, we shall assume that he is wriggling again.
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I want him to reply without any shilly-shallying or wriggling.
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