| 单词 | tug |
| 释义 | tug I. intransitive verb 1. < tugged at the chains with the aid of two husky comrades — T.B.Costain > < jerked the shade and let it tug halfway up — Barnaby Conrad > < insistent memories that tugged … from every cranny — Timothy Wharton > 2. < a person … tugging and wrestling with doubts and conflicts — Omnibook > 3. < tugged all his life to make a living > transitive verb 1. < each oar was tugged by five or six slaves — T.B.Macaulay > 2. a. < stuck fast until a team of cattle could … tug them out of the slough — T.B.Macaulay > < the five year development plan now being tugged into shape — Economist > b. < tug about a mental burden of protest — J.G.Gilkey > 3. obsolete 4. Synonyms: see pull II. 1. a. b. c. d. 2. a. < making his own bed with a few careless tugs — Marcia Davenport > b. < enables him to defy the awful tug of gravity — G.E.Fox > < knows … why the tug of the past has so much power — Norman Cousins > 3. a. < the stream was easy on the eastern side, but I saw that the tug was to come, for the main torrent swept … near the western bank — A.W.Kinglake > b. < the tug within him between conservative and liberal — John Mason Brown > 4. a. b. III. 1. Britain a. b. 2. chiefly Britain |
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