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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 contortion
 扭彎,扭歪,曲解

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Con·tor·tion n.  A twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face.
    All the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration.   --Burke.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 contortion
      n 1: the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something
           (e.g., yourself) [syn: deformation]
      2: a tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree
         house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat
         performed incredible contortions" [syn: tortuosity, tortuousness,
          torsion, crookedness]