1. | As a rule of thumb , you should cook a chicken for 20 minutes for each pound that it weighs. |
| 凭经验估计,每磅鸡肉应烹调20分钟。
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2. | Her thumb is painfully swollen. |
| 她的大拇指肿痛难忍。
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3. | He caught his thumb in the door. |
| 他的拇指让门夹了。
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4. | There are five fingers (or four fingers and one thumb ) on each hand. |
| 每只手有五个手指。
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5. | She's got him under her thumb . |
| 她把他管住了。
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6. | The modern office block sticks out like a sore thumb among the old buildings in the area. |
| 那座现代的办公楼直挺挺地竖在那片旧建筑物群中十分扎眼。
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7. | the thumb rule [the rule of thumb]. |
| 单凭经验来做的方法;比较粗糙的方法;约略的衡量[估计]。
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8. | As a rule of thumb ,the bigger the company the easy - ire it is to buy and sell. |
| 任经验来说,公司越大,做买卖越容易。
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9. | Not having much money, Carl decided to thumb a ride to New York. |
| 卡尔钱不多,决定搭过路车去纽约。
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10. | bite the thumb at sb. |
| 蔑视某人。
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