| 词汇 | throw up your hands (in horror/dismay etc) |
| 释义 | throw up your hands (in horror/dismay etc)throw up your hands (in horror/dismay etc) to do something that shows you think something is not good but feel you cannot do anything to change it （惊恐/沮丧等地）扬起双手〔表示你认为某事不好，却又无可奈何〕 Ted threw up his hands in disgust. ‘Can’t you make her change her mind?’ he asked. 特德反感地扬了扬手。“你不能让她改变主意吗？”他问道。 Examples from the Corpus throw up your hands (in horror/dismay etc)• Even his most recent wife, Mercedes, had thrown up her hands.• Jenny exclaimed to E.. Ames, throwing up her hands.• But instead of throwing up her hands and blaming the problem on organizational chaos, she stepped back and analyzed the situation.• Here Abie threw up his hands at the ignorance of policemen.• He rounded the bend nearest the building, and nearly dropped the branch for throwing up his hands in frustration.• Paul Reichmann threw up his hands in protest at the suggestion, but did not utter a sound.• Davide had seen the priests, who had shrugged and thrown up their hands indolently at the laundress's problem.• Then they throw up their hands, wondering why the benefits they have been pursuing never seem to accrue. → throw up your hands (in horror/dismay etc) at throw1(22) |
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