Fingering

(noun.) touching something with the fingers.

(noun.) the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument.

整理:诺拉

• I know very well that you give me plenty of money, said George (fingering a bundle of notes which he had got in the morning from Mr. Chopper). 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Twas a wonderful thing that one body could hold it all and never mix the fingering. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• She lapsed into her inarticulate sounds, and unconsciously drew forth the article which she was fingering. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The poet was evidently inspired by Byron, remarked Crispin, idly fingering the piano keys; I expect he wrote it after the 'Isles of Greece,' song. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• She has a very good notion of fingering, though her taste is not equal to Anne's. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• But I'd no business to be fingering bills. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He could not immediately find any other mode of expressing himself than that of rising, fixing his eye-glass, and fingering the papers before him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Not by a damned sight, replied Snipes, fingering the butt of his revolver nervously. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

手打:雷切尔