curl
verbVerb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they curl | |
| he / she / it curls | |
| past simple curled | |
| past participle curled | |
| -ing form curling |
- [intransitive, transitive] curl (something)
to form or make something form into a curl or curls 卷；（使）拳曲，鬈曲 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- tightly
- slightly
- back
- …
- around
- round
- from
- …
- curled up
- curl (up) at the edges
- [intransitive, transitive]
to form or make something form into a curved shape （使）成拳曲狀；蜷縮 
- (+ adv./prep.)
The cat curled into a ball and went to sleep. 那只貓蜷縮成一團睡着了。 - curl something (+ adv./prep.)
She curled her legs up under her. 她盤腿坐着。
Extra ExamplesTopics Colours and Shapesc1The photograph was brown and curling at the edges. 照片發黃了，邊兒都卷了起來。 His fingers curled tightly around the steering wheel. 他的手指緊緊把住方向盤。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- tightly
- slightly
- back
- …
- around
- round
- from
- …
- curled up
- curl (up) at the edges
- (+ adv./prep.)
- [intransitive, transitive]
to move while forming into a twisted or curved shape; to make something do this （使）呈螺旋（或卷曲）狀移動；（使）旋繞；缭繞 - (+ adv./prep.)
The smoke curled steadily upwards. 煙袅袅上升。 The honeysuckle curled around the trunk of the apple tree. 金銀花纏繞在蘋果樹的樹幹上。 Smoke was curling up from the chimney. 煙從煙囪裏缭繞而上。 - curl something (+ adv./prep.)
He turned and curled the ball around the goalkeeper. 他轉身把球一盤，繞過了守門員。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- tightly
- slightly
- back
- …
- around
- round
- from
- …
- curled up
- curl (up) at the edges
- (+ adv./prep.)
- [transitive, intransitive] curl (something)
if you curl your lip or your lip curls, you move your lip upwards and to the side to show that you think somebody/something is stupid or that you are better than they are 噘起（嘴唇）；撇（嘴）
Word Originlate Middle English: from obsolete crulle ‘curly’, from Middle Dutch krul.
Idioms
make somebody’s toes curl
to make somebody feel embarrassed or uncomfortable 使人尴尬；使人難爲情 The man's broad smile made her toes curl. 那個男人咧大嘴笑讓她感到不自在。