twitching [医] 颤搐
twitching[ noun ]
a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition
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Twitch \Twitch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Twitched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Twitching}.] [OE. twicchen, fr. (doubtful) AS. twiccian;
akin to AS. angeltwicca a worm used for bait, literally, a
hook twitcher, LG. twikken to tweak, G. zwicken. Cf.
{Tweak}.]
To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick
motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch
a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of
grapes.
Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear. --Pope.
- The prosthetic hand will grip objects just tightly enough to pick them up. The wearer commands the prosthesis to close or to open by twitching two muscles in his upper arm.
- Head has this character pinned down: fiddling, twitching, clumsy at dinner but deft in conversation. Around him the rest of the cast twitter through the dinner party and leave when they should.
- The whales - up to 20 feet long and 3,000 pounds - were listless, with eyes closed, making squeaking and whistling sounds and occasionally twitching.
- He had just played the victim of a simulated chemical attack, twitching and moaning on a stretcher as half-dozen doctors and medics hovered over him with a five-minute deadline to make a diagnosis and initiate treatment.