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You can picture grabbing something and turning it around its own line — your torso, a wire, a lid, a path. The middle stays put while the ends rotate the other way, so the shape or direction changes. That single rotating motion is the heart of 'twist': turn-and-bend. From it grow real bending of soft things, winding around, the curving of roads and rivers, the wrenching that hurts a joint, and the figurative bending of someone's words or a story's direction.

可以想成抓住一樣東西、繞著它自己的軸線去轉——你的上半身、一條鐵絲、一個瓶蓋、一條小路。中間不動、兩頭往相反方向旋,…更多收起可以想成抓住一樣東西、繞著它自己的軸線去轉——你的上半身、一條鐵絲、一個瓶蓋、一條小路。中間不動、兩頭往相反方向旋,於是形狀或方向就變了。這個「轉中帶扭」的動作比較像 twist 的核心:一邊轉、一邊把東西帶彎。從這裡長出:把軟的東西扭成形、纏繞、路與河的蜿蜒、關節扭傷,以及抽象地「扭曲」別人的話或故事的走向。

原始詞典資料37 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Twistname

  • 1

    A surname.

twistnoun/twɪst/

  • 1

    A twisting force.

  • 2

    Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.

    • Peter was always proud afterwards when he remembered that, with the Bargee's furious fingers tightening on his ear, the Bargee's crimson countenance close to his own, the Bargee's hot breath on his neck, he had the courage to speak the truth. "I wasn't catching fish," said Peter. "That's not your fault, I'll be bound," said the man, giving Peter's ear a twist—not a hard one—but still a twist.
    • Not the least turn or twist in the fibres of any one animal which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of life than any other cast or texture.
  • 3

    The form given in twisting.

    • Habakkuk brought him a ſmooth, ſtrong, tough Rope, made of many a ply of vvholeſome Scandinavian Hemp, compactly tvviſted together, vvith a Nooſe that ſlip'd as glib as a Bird-catcher's Gin. Jack ſhrunk and grevv pale at firſt ſight of it, he handled it, meaſur'd it, ſtretch'd it, fix'd it againſt the Iron-bar of the VVindovv to try its ſtrength, but not Familiarity could reconcile him to it. He found fault vvith the length, the thickneſs, and the tvviſt, nay, the very colour did not pleaſe him.
  • 4

    The degree of stress or strain when twisted.

  • 5

    A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.

    • the thrid By griesly Lachesis was spun with paine, That cruell Atropos eftsoones vndid, With cursed knife cutting the twist in twaine […]
    • I was one morning walking arm in arm with him in St James's Park, his dress then being […] waistcoat and breeches of the same blue satin, trimmed with silver twist à la hussarde, and ermine edges.
  • 6

    A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.

    • Bunny sat on the only remaining stool at the leather-padded oval bar in the Iron Lounge. It was happy hour, two drinks for the price of one. She decided on a martini with a twist, and while the bartender was preparing her drink, she scanned the faces looking at the bar.
  • 7

    A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.

    • But here a twist in the stream brought us out from the bushes
    • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
  • 8

    A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.

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  • 9

    An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.

    • I'm all agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.
    • Though set in Los Angeles, the film has a familiar, television look and feel - two handsome partners, cops, criminals, fast cars and a marginal romance. The twist in the buddy-car-chase formula is that here the good guys tend to blur into the bad.
  • 10

    A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.

    • Come on, baby, let's do the twist Take me by my little hand and go like this
    • Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring Seems he was troubled by just one thing Opened the lid and shook his fist And said, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?" It's now the Mash It's now the Monster Mash.
  • 11

    A rotation of the body when diving.

  • 12

    A sprain, especially to the ankle.

  • 13

    obsoleteA twig.

    • No twiſt, no twig, no bough nor branch […]
  • 14

    slangA girl, a woman.

    • James and Ruby danced over beside us. ‘Did you tell her?’ he asked, looking at me. I nodded. ‘Wait a minute,’ Gloria said, as they started to dance away. ‘What’s the big idea of talking behind my back?’ ‘Tell that twist to lay off me,’ James said, still speaking directly to me.
    • (Dane, speaking about a woman character) "I'll see where the twist flops"
  • 15

    A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.

  • 16

    A small roll of tobacco.

    • Uncle Charles smoked such black twist that at last his nephew suggested to him to enjoy his morning smoke in a little outhouse at the end of the garden.
    • We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.
  • 17

    A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.

    • Damascus twist
  • 18

    The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.

  • 19

    obsoleteslangA beverage made of brandy and gin.

  • 20

    A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.

    • a twist toward fanaticism
  • 21

    archaicslangAn appetite for food.

    • Hope you’ve brought good appetites with you, gentlemen. You, Doolan, I know ave, for you’ve always ad a deuce of a twist.
    • He [the yearling bull] had a good handsome male head, and he had a capital twist. He had a spring in his rib, and was something over seven feet in girth. He was well covered, and had all the recommendations of quality, symmetry, and size.

twistverb/twɪst/

  • 1

    To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.

  • 2

    To join together by twining one part around another.

    • "Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted, so that I couldn't come down again. It went way up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away. For a day and a night I traveled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I awoke and found the balloon floating over a strange and beautiful country."
  • 3

    To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

    • June 8, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift twisting it into a serpentine form.
  • 4

    To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.

    • longing to twist bays with that ivy
    • There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame.
  • 5

    To wind into; to insinuate.

    • Avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
  • 6

    To turn a knob etc.

  • 7

    To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.

    • Say I could succeed at the Bar, and achieve a fortune by bullying witnesses and twisting evidence; is that a fame which would satisfy my longings, or a calling in which my life would be well spent?
  • 8

    To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).

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  • 9

    To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.

    • Then Romany went down, then we fell together, and the chaps separated us. I got another knock-down blow in, and was beginning to enjoy the novelty of it, when Romany staggered and limped. ‘I’ve done,’ he said. ‘I’ve twisted my ankle.’ He’d caught his heel against a tuft of grass.
    • Oh, you are a devil. You can twist the heart in a girl as easy as some could twist her arms to hurt her. Mrs Pearce warned me. Time and again she has wanted to leave you; and you always got round her at the last minute. And you dont care a bit for her. And you dont care a bit for me.
  • 10

    To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.

    • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
    • My coming to New York had been a mistake; for whereas I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyze, and annihilate me.
  • 11

    To cause to rotate.

    • The tide seized us and swept us along, and in the races where this happened there were sucking whirlpools, strong enough to twist us round.
  • 12

    To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).

    • Twist it in the alley With long tall Sally Twistin' with Lucy Doin' the watusi.
  • 13

    To coax.

    • "On the three-thousand-dollar reward John Bain is offerin' for the return of his sister," said Ace. "Now listen--I know a certain big Chinee had her kidnapped outa her 'rickshaw out at the edge of the city one evenin'. He's been keepin' her prisoner in his house, waitin' a chance to send her up-country to some bandit friends of his'n; then they'll be in position to twist a big ransome outa John Bain, see? [...]"
  • 14

    card-gamesgamesIn the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

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