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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
]
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