He suggested it, by creasing his face with his two thumbs, from the corners of his mouth to his ears. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
There was nobody at all disposed to contest the point, as it happened; and so, on he went, with his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets, like a lamb. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
I think I shall trade, also, said he, putting his thumbs in his waist-coat pockets, to the West Indies, for sugar, tobacco, and rum. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
They suffocated some in mud, and suspended others by the feet, or the head, or the thumbs, kindling fires below them. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
Because man had ten fingers and thumbs, he learned to count in tens. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
No, no, I thank you, answered Smith, putting on a pair of his thickest beaver gloves as though to defend his thumbs. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
He ran his finger along the scar; put his thumbs together over the kneecap and rocked the knee gently with his fingers. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.
The first man’s ten fingers and thumbs represented units; the second man represented tens, and the third hundreds. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.