Wrestle
['res(ə)l] or ['rɛsl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat; 'they had a fierce wrestle'; 'we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully'.
(verb.) engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate; 'I wrestled with this decision for years'.
(verb.) combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force; 'He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority'.
(verb.) engage in a wrestling match; 'The children wrestled in the garden'.
杰夫編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
(v. t.) Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
(v. t.) To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
(n.) A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.
手打:旺达
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Contend, strive, struggle.
卡蜜拉整理
解釋/意思:
v.i. to contend by grappling and trying to throw the other down: to struggle: to apply one's self keenly to: (Scot.) to pray earnestly.—v.t. to contend with in wrestling.—n. a bout at wrestling: a struggle between two to throw each other down.—ns. Wrest′ler; Wrest′ling the sport or exercise of two persons struggling to throw each other to the ground in an athletic contest governed by certain fixed rules—catch-hold ground-wrestling catch-as-catch-can back-hold &c.
錄入:文斯
例句/造句/用法:
- After a moment's wrestle with him, Flintwinch gave up, and put his hands in his pockets. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- In her soul she began to wrestle, and she was frightened. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- One ought to wrestle and strive and be physically close. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Mr. Micawber kissed her hand, retired to the window, and pulling out his pocket-handkerchief, had a mental wrestle with himself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He could have settled her with a well-planted blow; but he would not strike: he would only wrestle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives; but many hard and miserable hours must you endure, until that period shall arrive. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- To advance along smooth and pleasant paths, to encounter no obstacles, to wrestle with no difficulties and hardships--such has absolutely no fascination to him. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- St. Clare could say but little; he lay with his eyes shut, but it was evident that he wrestled with bitter thoughts. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Truly, I was mad that night-- love--which I have named a giant from its birth, wrestled with despair! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Till break of day she wrestled with God in earnest prayer. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was weeks and months that Tom wrestled, in his own soul, in darkness and sorrow. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it is secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled for great prizes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- So the two men entwined and wrestled with each other, working nearer and nearer. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Running, wrestling, cudgel-playing, throwing the javelin, drawing the bow, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The real activity was this ghastly wrestling for death in his own soul. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- As he was fast making jam of his fruit by wrestling with the door while the paper-bags were under his arms, I begged him to allow me to hold them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- What might have been, for anything I knew, a silence of days, weeks, months, years, was broken by a violent wrestling of men all over the room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Only by wrestling with the conditions of the problem at first hand, seeking and finding his own way out, does he think. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The back door was open, and as he came to the foot of the stairs he saw two men wrestling together outside. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
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