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单词 struggle
释义 strug·gle
I. \ˈstrəgəl\ verb
(struggled ; struggled ; struggling \-g(ə)liŋ\ ; struggles)
Etymology: Middle English struglen
intransitive verb
1. : to make violent, strenuous, labored, or convulsive exertions or efforts against difficult or forceful opposition or impeding or constraining circumstances : strive, contend
 < they struggled about the trough as furiously as a litter of pigs — T.B.Costain >
 < with the driven rationality of church fathers struggling to formulate and express the accepted import of the Faith delivered to the saints — H.O.Taylor >
 < the story of the human spirit struggling with sin — R.A.Hall b. 1911 >
 < struggled bravely against poverty — C.M.Fuess >
 < the law has had to struggle with these problems — B.N.Cardozo >
 < the point of view I am struggling to attack — T.S.Eliot >
2. : to proceed with difficulty or with great effort
 < struggled through ancient exits never big enough to handle the crowd — Claudia Cassidy >
 < the lamplight struggled out through the fog — Oscar Wilde >
 < fell over prostrate trees, sank into deep holes and struggled out — Willa Cather >
 < ancient Egypt was just struggling out of barbarism — Geoffrey Boumphrey >
 < the band struggled through the … national anthem — Time >
 < the college struggled along until 1855 — American Guide Series: Louisiana >
transitive verb
: to bring to a desired state or condition by or as if by a struggle
 < struggled down the last of his emotions — R.L.Stevenson >
Synonyms: see try
II. noun
(-s)
1. : an act of earnest striving : a violent effort or exertion (as to obtain an object, overcome a difficulty, or avert an evil)
 < if he makes no effort — shrinking without a struggle from his duty — he himself will not the less certainly perish — Thomas De Quincey >
 < a struggle for freedom of thought >
 < a struggle with disease >
 < the boy had a struggle for a living >
 < the orchestra's struggle for survival >
2. : contest, contention, strife
 < the struggle between the natural sciences and religion ended in an armistice — Zechariah Chafee >
 < attempts to express in musical form the struggle between sacred and profane love — Edward Sackville-West & Desmond Shawe-Taylor >
 < the struggle with communism >
 < a struggle over a political issue >
 < a legal struggle >
 < in the course of the struggle he was made prisoner and harshly treated — E.M.Coulter >
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