英语词汇“to grasp the nettle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. To seize and hold firmly with the hand. to grasp the nettle: figurative to attack a difficulty boldly.

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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxii. sig. Cc7^v O foole that I am, that thought I coulde graspe water, and binde the winde.

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iii. sig. H3 She graspt my hand, And kissing it, spake thus.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) v. i. 97 Thy Hand is made to graspe a Palmers staffe.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 83 Curroon (longing to graspe the Diadem) commands [him] to begin the fight.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 124 A fruit like Oranges, but so big, that one cannot grasp them with both hands.

1708 E. Smith Phædra & Hippolytus ii. (1709) 20 Now he devours her with his eager Eyes, Now grasps her Hands.

1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 91 He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 285 If two..silver spoons be grasped one in each hand [etc.].

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 29 He stretched forth his right hand, which I grasped firmly in mine.

1884 S. St. John Hayti Introd. 10 It was hoped..that, grasping the nettle with resolution, he might suffer no evil results.

单词	to grasp the nettle
释义	> as lemmas to grasp the nettle a. To seize and hold firmly with the hand. to grasp the nettle: figurative to attack a difficulty boldly. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxii. sig. Cc7^v O foole that I am, that thought I coulde graspe water, and binde the winde. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iii. sig. H3 She graspt my hand, And kissing it, spake thus. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) v. i. 97 Thy Hand is made to graspe a Palmers staffe. View more context for this quotation 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 83 Curroon (longing to graspe the Diadem) commands [him] to begin the fight. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 124 A fruit like Oranges, but so big, that one cannot grasp them with both hands. 1708 E. Smith Phædra & Hippolytus ii. (1709) 20 Now he devours her with his eager Eyes, Now grasps her Hands. 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 91 He grasp'd the mane with both his hands, And eke with all his might. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 285 If two..silver spoons be grasped one in each hand [etc.]. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 29 He stretched forth his right hand, which I grasped firmly in mine. 1884 S. St. John Hayti Introd. 10 It was hoped..that, grasping the nettle with resolution, he might suffer no evil results. extracted from graspv. < as lemmas
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