contortion

英 [kənˈtɔːʃn]

美 [kənˈtɔːrʃn]

n.  (脸部或躯体的)扭曲，变形，走样; 扭曲的动作(或姿势)

复数：contortions　

医学

BNC.32664 / COCA.24436

牛津词典

noun

• （脸部或躯体的）扭曲，变形，走样
  the state of the face or body being twisted out of its natural shape
  1. Their bodies had suffered contortion as a result of malnutrition.
     由于营养不良他们的躯体都变了形。
• 扭曲的动作（或姿势）
  a movement which twists the body out of its natural shape
  1. His facial contortions amused the audience of schoolchildren.
     他扮鬼脸逗得小学生观众都笑起来了。
  2. We had to go through all the usual contortions to get a ticket (= a difficult series of actions) .
     我们照例得费尽心机才能弄到一张票。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (躯体、面部等的)扭弯，扭曲，变形
  Contortionsare movements of your body or face into unusual shapes or positions.
  1. I had to admire the contortions of the gymnasts.
     我不得不为这些体操运动员们高难度的扭体动作而赞叹。

英英释义

noun

• the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)
  Synonym:deformation
• a tortuous and twisted shape or position
  1. they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs
  2. the acrobat performed incredible contortions
  Synonym:tortuositytortuousnesstorsioncrookedness

双语例句

• Beam and truss elements could not accurately simulate the phenomenon of contortion and bending and a comprehensive analysis of the stress throughout the cross-section. It has a difficulty in simulation of reinforced concrete structure problems.
  梁和杆单元模型无法准确模拟实体构件的扭转和弯曲，不能全面分析截面各处的应力和应变，对于混凝土结构中的钢筋和预应力筋模拟也存在着困难。
• The omnipresent prime colors of red, yellow and white combined with the conflict between black and white as well as the contortion of human bodies, give the picture a dangerous tension.
  无处不在的红色以及黄、蓝等原色，加之黑白的冲突，以及人体的扭曲，使得作品看起来充满了危险的张力。
• Formed under the force of contortion, the gas field takes a S configuration.
  中坝气田在扭力的作用下，外形呈S形。
• From the two points of contortion of rural credit cooperative system and its management structure, ten problems concerning cooperative finance in rural areas are analyzed.
  从农村合作金融制度扭曲和治理结构两个方面分析了农村合作金融存在的10个问题。
• Exaggerated contortion of the body ( of sb's features) move violently; twitch
  过分扭转身体的动作（指人的五官）抽动，扭曲
• The contortion and overlapping of bodies, the stunning and even abhorrent red lips, they all directly express the piquancy of death and the arrival of hope after breaking everything.
  人体的扭曲与迭加，令人惊奇甚至厌恶的红色嘴唇，直接地表达了死亡的快感以及打破一切后希望的到来。
• The complexities of CL comprise of structure complexity, uncertainty, information contortion and amplification, dynamic organization and so on, with distributional, autonomous, interactive and dynamic features.
  该类系统的复杂性包括结构复杂性、不确定性、信息的失真与放大、组织机构的动态性等，具有分布性、自治性、交互性、动态性等特征。
• To begin with, we derive them by taking the contortion ( distortion) deflection as the unknown, Then we base on the closed thin wall stanchion theory and the energy method, we converse them into the differential equation of r ( z).
  本文以歪扭（畸变）挠度W为未知量，用闭口薄壁杆件理论与能量法进行推导，然后换算成γ（z）的微分方程。
• I had to admire the contortions of the gymnasts.
  我不得不为这些体操运动员们高难度的扭体动作而赞叹。
• The working of laying sewage drain pipes resulted in periphery soil displacement seriously, partly landfall, partly soil loss and contortion of steel tubes. A concrete example of grouting and strengthening engineering of sewage drain pips of Shenzhen City
  针对深圳市污水排水放流钢顶管已施工部分，因顶管施工过程中周围土体位移严重，局部出现过塌方，造成部分土体流失，引起钢顶管扭曲变形。深圳市污水排海放流管注浆加固工程实例