contortion

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcontortioncon‧tor‧tion /kənˈtɔːʃən $ -ɔːr-/ noun 1 [countable]BEND a twisted position or movement that looks surprising or strange I could not force my body into the contortions required by classical ballet. facial contortions2 BEND[uncountable] when something is twisted so that it does not have its normal shape involuntary muscle contortion3 [countable]COMPLICATED something difficult you have to do in order to achieve something He went through a series of amazing contortions to get Karen a work permit.Examples from the Corpuscontortion• 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.

单词	contortion
释义	contortion From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcontortioncon‧tor‧tion /kənˈtɔːʃən $ -ɔːr-/ noun 1 [countable]BEND a twisted position or movement that looks surprising or strange I could not force my body into the contortions required by classical ballet. facial contortions2 BEND[uncountable] when something is twisted so that it does not have its normal shape involuntary muscle contortion3 [countable]COMPLICATED something difficult you have to do in order to achieve something He went through a series of amazing contortions to get Karen a work permit.Examples from the Corpuscontortion• 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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