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单词 fingerhold
释义

fingerhold

/ˈfɪŋɡəhəʊld /
noun
1A small indentation or projection where a person can lodge a finger to support themselves.A thought-provoking reach from a sharp fingerhold on the roof's lip gains a strenuous and exposed upper wall....
  • Progress was painfully slow: they had to test every fingerhold before they dared trust it with their weight.
  • She could not believe that the goats could climb so steep an incline so nimbly, when she was barely able to find a fingerhold in the rock.
1.1A tenuous grasp on something: the script gives her no more than a fingerhold on the story the final fingerhold on fame...
  • Her sole fingerhold on the network, her Sunday show, is going to be taken over by Letitia.
  • The hope is that the numbers can be crunched in some direction which will offer enough of a fingerhold to justify a decision.
  • The extent to which beliefs can be modified by doubt gives me a bit of a fingerhold onto how beliefs can be chosen by dint of one's will.
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