curled up

基本解釋

The smoke was choking me, I was curled up in pain on the bed, and I didn't know what was happening.
那股煙嗆得我氣都喘不過來.躺在床上,我痛苦的蜷縮起來,根本不知道這到底是怎么回事。
If there are extra dimensions they might be very, very small – little curled up dimensions" that would not be visible in our macroscopic three-dimensional space, Pretorius told LiveScience.
如果有額外維，它們可能會極為極為微小 - 在我們的宏觀三維空間里不會看到這樣微小的蜷縮維度”，普里托里厄斯告訴《生活科學(xué)》。
Some theories in particle physics speculate that it might, although these dimensions would be curled up in loops so small, they could probably be probed only in high-energy particle collisions.
粒子物理學(xué)的一些理論推測說有可能，盡管這些維度蜷縮在極小的閉路里，只有利用高能粒子碰撞才能探測得到。

Then, books to my chest, I curled up beneath the afghan and looked out the window.
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Angels appear on earrings, thimbles and dinner plates, as flying pins and cherubs curled up asleep.
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The two are curled up on a sofa when he blurts this out.
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