pinching

英 [ˈpɪntʃɪŋ]

美 [ˈpɪntʃɪŋ]

v.  拧; 捏; 掐; 捏住; 夹紧; 夹(脚); 夹痛
pinch的现在分词

COCA.39134

柯林斯词典

• VERB 捏；拧；掐；夹
  If youpincha part of someone's body, you take a piece of their skin between your thumb and first finger and give it a short squeeze.
  1. She pinched his arm as hard as she could...
     她使出浑身的力气拧他的胳膊。
  2. We both kept pinching ourselves to prove that it wasn't all a dream.
     我们两个都一直在掐自己，证明这不是在做梦。
  3. Pinchis also a noun.
     
  4. She gave him a little pinch.
     她轻轻地捏了他一下。
• 把包括一撮盐在内的所有配料放入食品加工机。 → see:Put all the ingredients, including a pinch of salt, into a food processor.
• VERB 偷取，偷盗（尤指不贵重的物品）
  Topinchsomething, especially something of little value, means to steal it.
  1. Do you remember when I pinched your glasses?
     你还记得我偷你眼镜的事儿吗？
  2. ...pickpockets who pinched his wallet.
     偷走他钱包的扒手
• PHRASE 必要时；在紧要关头
  If you say that something is possibleat a pinch, or in American English if you say that something is possiblein a pinch, you mean that it would be possible if it was necessary, but it might not be very comfortable or convenient.
  1. Six people, and more at a pinch, could be seated comfortably at the table.
     这张桌子可以很舒服地坐6个人，而且必要时多坐几个也不会挤。
• PHRASE 感到手头拮据；感到囊中羞涩
  If a person or companyis feeling the pinch, they do not have as much money as they used to, and so they cannot buy the things they would like to buy.
  1. Consumers are spending less and traders are feeling the pinch.
     消费者支出在减少，商人感觉手头拮据。
• PHRASE 身处困境；处境艰难
  If you arein a pinch, you are in a difficult situation.
  1. I'd trust her in a pinch...
     身处困境时，我信任她。
  2. Everyone knew he was in a pinch.
     每个人都知道他境况艰难。

双语例句

• We both kept pinching ourselves to prove that it wasn't all a dream.
  我们两个都一直在掐自己，证明这不是在做梦。
• By pinching and scraping for the last two years I've saved enough money to visit my parents in Australia.
  这两年我省吃俭用攒足了钱，以便去看望我在澳大利亚的父母。
• But scrolling, zooming, and pinching worked just fine on the X1 with no delay.
  但在X1上，不论是滚动、放大还是捏动等动作，表现都非常出色，没有任何延迟。
• Check the wiring harness for pinching or chafing damage.
  检查线束是否有挤压或擦破损坏。
• Some grandmothers can't resist pinching their grandchildren's chubby cheeks.
  某些祖母会忍不住捏捏孙子胖胖的脸颊。
• Drought is sure to push up food prices, pinching consumer spending on other things.
  旱灾肯定会推高食品价格，从而挤占消费者其他方面的开支。
• He led his life, pinching and scraping.
  他省吃俭用地过日子。
• So if you're serious about deficits, you shouldn't be pinching pennies now;
  所以如果你真的关心财政赤字问题，你不应该在现在精打细算；
• On the second boy's violently pinching one of the same lady's fingers, she fondly observed," how playful William is!"
  当她的第二个孩子用力猛捏那位小姐的手指时，她天真地说：“威廉真顽皮！”
• The auther worked out a pinching theorem of compact pesudoumbilical submanifolds with parallel mean curvature vector in a locally symmetric conformally flat Riemannian manifolds.
  研究局部对称共形平坦黎曼流形中具平行平均曲率向量的紧致伪脐子流形，得到了这类子流形模长平方的一个拼挤定理。