| 单词 | wrestle |
| 释义 | wrestle (once / 565 pages) nv If you decide to wrestle on a team in high school, you'll be grabbing your opponent and trying to fling him to the ground while he tries to do the same to you. You might want to consider the ping pong team instead. Athletes wrestle wearing uniforms and helmets, and they follow very specific rules. Others wrestle more spontaneously — a bar bouncer might have to wrestle with an unruly patron, or a parent might need to wrestle a squirming toddler into her car seat. Yet another way to wrestle is with an idea or a problem, a kind of mental struggle. The Old English root, wræstan, means "to wrest," or to yank something out of another person's grasp. WORD FAMILYwrestle: wrestled, wrestler, wrestles, wrestling+/wrestler: wrestlers/wrestling: wrestlings USAGE EXAMPLESIn the streets below, ordinary citizens wrestle with 41% inflation and chronic shortages of staples such as sugar, cooking oil and medicine. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Julius is such a physical presence that opponents began sending blockers to wrestle him to the ground, leading to penalties and chaos. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) The more Muslim profiling rose to the forefront of the debate, the more I wrestled with how to navigate my background. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) 1n the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat they had a fierce wrestle Syn|Hyper grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestling struggle strenuous effort 2v to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) Syn|Hypo|Hyper squirm, twist, worm, wriggle, writhe wrench make a sudden twisting motion move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 3v engage in a wrestling match The children wrestled in the garden Hypo|Hyper mud-wrestle, mudwrestle wrestle in mud contend, fight, struggle be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight 4v combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority Hyper battle, combat battle or contend against in or as if in a battle 5v engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate I wrestled with this decision for years Hyper consider, debate, deliberate, moot, turn over think about carefully; weigh |
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