contortion
contortion 英 [kənˈtɔ:ʃn] 美 [kənˈtɔrʃn]
n. 扭弯；扭歪
名词复数:contortions
- If you twist your body into a contortion, you might put one leg behind your ear, and clasp your arms behind your back. A contortion is a twisted position.
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- n. 扭弯；扭歪
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1. The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people.
拖延行为的本质在于不去干那些你认为你应该干的事情，这种思想的扭曲导致了这种习惯给人们带来的巨大的心灵负担。
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2. Then he slumped forward, into a crouch I recognized, and his pleasant smile slowly widened, grew, till it wasn't a smile at all but a contortion of teeth, exposed and glistening.
然后他猛然俯下身去，变成我能认得出的那种蜷伏的姿势，他愉快的微笑越笑越开，慢慢张大着嘴，最终那不再是一个微笑，而是歪曲着嘴唇露出牙齿的姿势，他的牙齿全部露了出来，闪耀着光。
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3. The children were awed by the exaggerated contortion of the clown's body.
孩子们对小丑夸张扭曲的身体惊叹不已。
- contortion (n.) early 15c., contorsioun, "act of twisting or wrenching," from Old French contorsion and directly from Latin contortionem (nominative contortio), noun of action from past-participle stem of contorquere (see contort). Meaning "a contorted state or form" is from 1660s.
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