英:['twɜ:lə]
美:['twɜlə]
英:['twɜ:lə]
美:['twɜlə]
verb
intransitive verb
to revolve rapidly
to pitch in a baseball game
transitive verb
to cause to rotate rapidly
pitch sense 2a
noun
an act of twirling
coil, whorl
"1808年,代理名词,来自 twirl(动词)。作为棒球俚语,指“投手”,始于1891年。
Verb perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialect tvirla to twirl; akin to Old High German dweran to stir
The first known use of twirl was in 1598
twirl1 of 2verb
to turn or cause to turn rapidly
twirl a baton
twirl2 of 2noun
an act of twirling
twirl1 of 2verb
to turn or cause to turn rapidly
twirl a baton
twirl2 of 2noun
an act of twirling
twirl1 of 2verb
to turn or cause to turn rapidly
twirl a baton
twirl2 of 2noun
an act of twirling
1 Owens told me that, in the past year at St. Thomas, he had identified concussions in two female soccer players, two volleyball players, and a baton twirler.
2 America’s Youth on Parade will mark all of the twirlers’ first time ever participating in a national competition.
3 The bus discharged the guests onto a hillside speckled with naked dancers and fire twirlers and people in livestock masks.
4 The cheerleaders jumped and twirled.
5 Unable to get credit as a minor, he got a job as a sign twirler, standing at Renaldi Street and Reseda Boulevard, spinning the giant arrow for condos in Porter Ranch.
6 They knew from their daughter's experience that although he was the only boy among nearly 100 students, he'd have plenty of role models among the coaches and fellow twirlers.
7 There was a baton twirler, a hula dancer, a pianist and a yodeler.
8 A biting breaking ball by a long-haired twirler on his last pitching breath.
9 She is competing in the Collegiate Division representing the University of Missouri, going up against dozens of advanced twirlers in pursuit of the national collegiate twirling title.
10 I also learned that if your partner wasn’t the best twirler, chances are your corner or someone else in the group was, so I could get my fix and spin really, really fast.
11 Instead, thank a new breed of audacious and artful twirlers, capable of carrying the attack, rather than simply relieving it.
12 The kite twisted and twirled in the wind.
13 Now 27, Buchholz, a busy college student and competitive baton twirler and coach, reaches out to other families grappling with 22q syndrome.
14 “There is one big thing we preach here,” said Sarah Paulus, a junior TV production major and the band’s baton twirler.
15 Steinberg was a lyricist of the metal nib — a twirler of nonverbal non sequiturs.
16 It will feature groups such as the DC Fire Department Emerald Society Pipes and Drums, the Republican Hindu Coalition, high school marching bands, choirs and baton twirlers.
17 Lichtenstein was first a member of LSU’s majorettes, known as the Tigerettes, but with twirlers on their way out, she auditioned for the newly formed dance line.
18 The fire twirlers — three of them, all women — were performing enthusiastically in costumes that did little to shield them from the cold.
19 So I would sometimes wander to the front row to barb — as best as an 11-year-old could — the visiting twirlers.
20 After two seasons in Virginia State’s Trojan Explosion, he finally got a chance to join the auxiliary line and was the only male twirler in the Battle of the Bands.