Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven.

从无底深渊中，这巨大的尾巴痉挛般一跃而起，抓向高天。

She struggled for self-control, and I saw her hands clench and unclench spasmodically. It was dreadfully painful.

她拼命克制着自己的感情，我注意到她的两手一会儿握紧，一会儿又松开。那种痛苦简直太可怕了。

Then spasmodically she thought of something to say which seemed more intimate.

然后她痉挛地想说些似乎更亲密的话。

The toothless gums moved spasmodically, and it threw its face into horrible grimaces.

没有牙齿的牙龈痉挛性地移动着， 它的脸变成了可怕的鬼脸。

The door latch clicked spasmodically -- now hospitably, now doubt- fully, as though in anxiety whether it might be admitting friends or duns.

门闩断断续续地发出喀哒声——时而热情，时而怀疑，仿佛在焦虑是否会接纳朋友或催款。

Prissy picked lazily, spasmodically, complaining of her feet, her back, her internal miseries, her complete weariness, until her mother took a cotton stalk to her and whipped her until she screamed.

百里茜懒懒散散、时紧时慢地摘着，不断地抱怨脚痛背痛，还说肚子也有毛病，浑身都瘫了，等等，直到她母亲拿起棉花秆抽她，她才尖叫几声了事。

Tom Slattery owned no slaves, and he and his two oldest boys spasmodically worked their few acres of cotton, while the wife and younger children tended what was supposed to be a vegetable garden.

他和两个大儿子断断续续地种着那几英亩棉花，老子和几个儿子则照管那块号称菜园的土地。

As the two reports rang out Malbihn dropped his rifle, clutched frantically at his breast, staggered, fell first to his knees and then lunged upon his face. Baynes stiffened. His head flew back spasmodically.

当两份报告响起时，马尔比恩放下了他的步枪，疯狂地抓住他的胸膛，摇摇晃晃，先是跪倒在地，然后扑向他的脸。贝恩斯僵住了。他的头痉挛地向后仰。

A well-dressed American had come in with two women who swooped and fluttered unselfconsciously around a table. Suddenly, he perceived that he was being watched--whereupon his hand rose spasmodically and arranged a phantom bulge in his necktie.

一个衣冠楚楚的美国人带着两个女人走了进来，她们不自觉地围着桌子扑腾扑腾。突然，他意识到自己正在被注视——于是他的手痉挛性地抬起，在领带上捏了一个幻影般的凸起。

Now in various ways and on occasion, you can tune into these other realities to some degree - and you do so spasmodically, though in many cases the experience is lost because it does not register physically.

现在，以各种方式，有时，你可以在某种程度上调整到这些其他现实——你会间歇性地这样做，尽管在许多情况下，体验会丢失，因为它没有在身体上记录下来。

And from the wings a hideously bent and disfigured old man watched the tableau in the box, his pock-marked features working spasmodically in varying expressions that might have marked every sensation in the gamut from pleasure to terror.

一个面目狰狞、面目全非的老人从侧翼望着包厢里的场景，他布满麻子的五官在不同的表情中痉挛地转动着，这些表情可能标志着从快乐到恐惧的每一种感觉。

He was unfolding the paper as if he had hardly heard her; but after a pause, during which the sheets rustled spasmodically between his hands, he lifted his head to say abruptly, " Have you any idea how long" ?

他展开报纸，好像几乎没有听到她说的话。但过了一会儿，床单在他双手间发出一阵阵沙沙声，他抬起头突然说：“你知道要多久吗？”