I had to admire the contortions of the gymnasts.

我不得不佩服体操运动员身体的柔韧性。

His facial contortions amused the audience of schoolchildren.

他扮鬼脸逗得小学生观众都笑起来了。

The guard was laughing at his contortions.

那个警卫看到他那难受劲儿感到好笑。

But what is one to make of its contortions over the intervention in Libya?

但是究竟是什么使他在入侵利比亚问题上立场与北约不一致呢？

The contortions are more theatrical the closer they live to north Africa.

而且越是对北非依赖的国家就越做作的厉害。

He tried to guess how the strata behaved at the time the contortions formed.

他试图推断地层在扭曲形成时是如何变化的。

They are obliged to resort to the most ingenious contortions and combinations.

他们却不能不采取最巧妙的曲解和胡说。

With enough contortions, you can get an item for every type of sequence/iterator.

对于每种序列/迭代器类型，只要费一番功夫，总能够获得其中的特定条目。

For a slice, you might use the itertools.islice function, wrapped up in contortions.

对于切片，可以按照特殊方式使用itertools . islice函数。

Despite Mr Dodd's contortions, no Republicans have yet said they will support the bill.

尽管多德做出了改变，但没有哪个共和党议员明确说要支持该提案。

But the contortions have begun to make sure that a default rating would not cause chaos.

但是为了保证违约评级不至于引起混乱，只得开始用些“变通”的方法了。

Considering the verbal contortions the prime minister generally employs to fend off criticism, that seems unlikely.

但想想首相应对批评时往往用语言扭曲事实，他这么做的可能性就微乎其微了。

It was a spiteful, passionate letter, full of confusions, contortions, and condemnations. And a pile of angry questions.

这是一封带着怨恨、饱含感情的信，充满了混乱、扭曲和诅咒。还有一大堆愤怒的问题。

Ease of mounting: Many times impressive contortions are required to stow a good parachute in a good harness with acceptable results.

易于安装：(大家)常常会看到为了把一个备份伞装到吊带里面令人印象深刻的费劲。

The @arg_sayer() example goes through a lot of contortions to obtain a rather limited result, but it is worthwhile for the several things it illustrates

@arg_sayer() 绕了很多弯路，但只获得非常有限的结果，不过对于它所阐明的几方面来说，这是值得的

After viewing the first 100 shots on the monitor she asked me if she could do a couple of the contortions again because she believed she could make them better.

在她看过第一次拍摄的100多张照片之后，她问我她是否能再做一组动作，因为她坚信，她能做的比第一次更好。

These contortions, negations of beauty, betray so much solitude that one must ask oneself if the physiognomy of sadness is not a mode of objectifying death in life.

这些扭曲，美的否定，巨大孤独的背叛，使人不禁要问自己，悲伤的面容难道不是死亡客观化的一种模式吗？

The contortions are more theatrical the closer they live to north Africa. Finland was the first to demand sanctions against Libya; Cyprus and Malta the last to agree.

这种异态在越靠近北非的地方越戏剧化：芬兰是第一个要求制裁利比亚的国家，而塞浦路斯和马耳他最后才同意。

They were also strapped into a giant centrifuge, where they had to read signals and answer questions despite dizziness, muscle contortions and involuntary spurts of tears.

他们还要被固定在巨型离心机里，经历头昏眼花、肌肉扭曲和无意识的流眼泪的同时，接收信号并回答问题。

GERMANY has a complicated relationship with military force, for reasons that are more than understandable. But what is one to make of its contortions over the intervention in Libya?

德国和军事有着错综复杂的关系，其原因让人迷惑不已。但是究竟是什么使他在入侵利比亚问题上立场与北约不一致呢？

Citizens can be found dozing off, sometimes in bizarre contortions, in supermarkets, on playground equipment, on the backs of mopeds, under parked vehicles and on Ikea display beds.

超市里、操场的设施上、机动自行车的后座上、停放的车辆下，以及宜家的样品床上，打盹儿的人随处可见，有时候姿态颇为怪异。