I thumbed through the report quickly on the train .
我在火车上翻阅过这份报告了。
She has thumbed through the new dictionary .
她已翻遍了这本新词典。
Thus the enthusiastic dumb man thumbed the humble man 's umbrella .
于是热情的哑巴用拇指拨弄谦卑男子的伞。
I thumbed home to dixon , illinois .
于是我搭便车从家抵达狄克逊和伊利诺斯。
My wife and I continued south : we hitchhiked from bangkok to singapore , took a ship to jakarta , and thumbed a ride on a new zealand yacht sailing from bali down to australia .