curled up

基本解释

The smoke was choking me, I was curled up in pain on the bed, and I didn't know what was happening.
那股烟呛得我气都喘不过来.躺在床上,我痛苦的蜷缩起来,根本不知道这到底是怎么回事。
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.
如果有额外维，它们可能会极为极为微小 - 在我们的宏观三维空间里不会看到这样微小的蜷缩维度”，普里托里厄斯告诉《生活科学》。
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.
粒子物理学的一些理论推测说有可能，尽管这些维度蜷缩在极小的闭路里，只有利用高能粒子碰撞才能探测得到。

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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