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Get out those old picture albums and start thumbing through them.

找出老照片并且开始翻阅。

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Researchers found that drivers in a simulator reacted slowly to sudden traffic emergencies regardless of whether they were thumbing texts into their smartphones or dictating them to Google Glass. Glass-wearing drivers did recover more quickly from near accidents than hand-texters.

研究人员发现当戴着模拟装置时，不管司机们是用智能手机还是戴着谷歌眼镜，对突如其来的应急交通状况反应要明显慢。但戴着眼镜确实比攥着手机更能快速对附近的意外事件作出反应。

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Thumbing through an atlas of Mongolia, I saw a symbol for what looked like the wall, but when I checked it out in the legend, it was not the Great Wall of China.

林赛：在翻看一本蒙古地图册的时候，我发现了一个像长城的符号，但我在图例中查找时，却发现它并不是中国长城。

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Dave Morin is methodically thumbing the chain links on his silver bracelet as he parses the difficulties of designing products for mobile devices.

大卫•莫林一边分析为移动设备设计产品的难处，一边有条不紊的摆弄着自己银手镯上的链子。

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I went out onto the road to start thumbing.

我走到公路上,竖起拇指要求搭车.

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Thumbing his nose at such notions as resource scarcity, Mr Simon wagered that the price of any five commodities chosen by Mr Ehrlich would go down over the following decade.

西蒙对其强调资源稀缺性的观点嗤之以鼻，他打赌说，在随后到来的十年中，埃氏挑选的那五种商品价格必会下跌。

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A man in the corner of the room was thumbing out a tune on an old piano.

在房间的角落，一个男人正在旧钢琴上用力地弹奏曲子。

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Thumbing a lift had once a carefree, easy-going image.

伸手搭便车曾经给人以轻松随意的形象。

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I was thumbing through a magazine when a secretary came in.

我正在翻阅一本杂志,秘书走了进来.

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In modern times, the Chinese medicine using maturity, development innovation, constantly strive to use more of the dialectical concept, especially focuses on the disease is healed modern today, many scholars are like using the classical, while thumbing through to make research.

从古至今，中医学在现代医学的运用渐趋成熟，发展不断力求创新，所运用的辨证理念越来越多，尤其重在医治现代难治的疾病，现今很多学者们都喜欢运用经方，而翻阅古典去作出研究。

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She was thumbing the dictionary.

她在翻字典。

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It is a thumbing of the nose at hegemony.

而是对霸权的蔑视。

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Thumbing vaguely through it, he chanced on a chapter called "The Death of Birth," about the extinction of species.

由于大致地翻看着这本书，他偶然发现了关于物种灭亡而称之为“出生的致死原因”那一章。

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I was thumbing through an old magazine when a secretary came in to say that Mr Smith was ready to see me.

我正在翻阅一本旧杂志，一位秘书进来说史密斯先生等着见我。

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And even at our maximum speed, it took the liberty of thumbing its nose at the frigate by running a full circle around us!

甚至在我们的船以最快速度航行的时候，它竟然能够绕船一周，似乎跟我们开玩笑呢！

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His heart was thumbing as he approached the door.

当他快靠近门口的时候，心怦怦地跳得厉害。

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The suspect was thumbing through the telephone directory when one policeman detained him.

这个嫌疑犯正在翻弄电话簿的时候，被警察拘捕了。

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Restructuring all of its debt into bonds issued under local law would be one way of thumbing its nose at the pesky holdouts and the US courts.

将所有债务重组为按照当地法律发行的债券，将是向恼人的拒绝重组债权人和美国法庭表达蔑视的一种方式。

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This new breed of bourgeois often develops an identity crisis thumbing their nose to Sanlitun and the "foreigners" who fill the bars, clubs and restaurants.

这帮新兴资产阶级们自命不凡，对三里屯的那些酒吧、夜店和餐厅嗤之以鼻，在他们眼里，去那些地方消费的‘‘同胞’’们俗不可耐。

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He kept thumbing through the book until he found the right page.

他不停地翻书,直到找到那页.

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He had the drawer open and was thumbing through the files.

他打开抽屉，翻看着档案。

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Thumbing the book, he found a maple leaf in it.

他匆匆翻了一下书, 找到一片枫叶.

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I think I found it long ago in a passage from the book, Genesis, which caught my eyes while I was thumbing through my Bible.

我想我很久以前在《起源》这本书的一段话中发现了答案，当我翻查圣经的时候注意到了它。

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Navigating through content-rich pages," thumbing" from one Web site to another and back again will cease to be such a tedious exercise.

浏览网页上的丰富内容，在不同网站之间自由切换不用费吹灰之力。

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and suddenly the hinges started to unhitch. just then, the witch to satisfy an itch went flying on her broom stick, thumbing for a hitch.

突然门栓开始锁不紧，巫婆就从那时起，为了满足欲望，乘着扫帚飞起，伸出拇指搭便车。

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Brenda sat in the doctor's office thumbing through a magazine while she waited.

布伦达坐在医生办公室等候时,随手翻开了一本杂志.

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She is thumbing rides to Fremont Street to see her grandfather.

她要搭车去弗里蒙特街去看她的外祖母。

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