contortion

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1 [countableC]BEND a twisted position or movement that looks surprising or strange 扭曲的姿势[动作]

I could not force my body into the contortions required by classical ballet.

我无法按古典芭蕾的要求把自己的身体弄成扭曲的姿势。

facial contortions

面部扭曲

2 BEND[uncountableU] when something is twisted so that it does not have its normal shape 扭曲，变形

involuntary muscle contortion

不由自主的肌肉扭曲

3 [countableC]COMPLICATED something difficult you have to do in order to achieve something 困难，周折

He went through a series of amazing contortions to get Karen a work permit.

他费尽周折才为凯伦弄到了一张工作许可证。

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contortion• By a contortion of semantics he led the so-called Liberal Party.• It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary.• He places a tiny wire runner with effortless case, in comparison with my desperate finger-wrestling, rope-biting contortions.• the involuntary contortion of muscles• Some bills go through numerous legislative contortions before they are approved.• Torrence dances with the lithe contortions of a cobra.• Two wounded people, he will joke during their nightly contortions.• One contortion flows into another, each stunt is more beautiful than the last.• I went to a gory pile of dead human forms in every kind of stiff contortion.• His thin body was rigid and they could see the contortions of his facial muscles beneath the skin.

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