| 单词 | wrench |
| 释义 | wrench I. intransitive verb 1. a. < of a sudden her heart wrenched — Scott Fitzgerald > < the trail teetered down into a gulch and wrenched up the other side — A.B.Guthrie > also b. of a hare 2. < tighten the nuts by light wrenching — B.G.A.Skrotzki & W.A.Vopat > < suspense wrenching at the pit of his stomach — Marcia Davenport > transitive verb 1. < the wind wrenched the stems double — Pearl Buck > < wrenched his head around — F.V.W.Mason > 2. < every joint and every muscle was wrenched — R.O.Bowen > 3. < a readiness to wrench language in order to gain nervous immediacy — Irving Howe > < these, then, are the highlights of the essay wrenched from their context — L.W.Elder > especially < a distributive language … has been wrenched … to make it fit an alien grammar — Charlton Laird > < each object is wrenched from its original purpose and changed into a work of art — G.H.Hamilton > 4. a. < wrenched open the back door — Patrick Campbell > b. < by a terrible effort wrenched the tightening fingers away — Oscar Wilde > < wrenched the jacket from him with unnecessary violence — G.B.Shaw > < wrenching every penny from the poor — Michael McLaverty > < custom wrenched from her a small, stiff bow — Elizabeth Bowen > c. < had to wrench themselves back to the dull reality of the apartment — Bernard Frizell > < wrenched from their older tribal society and thrust into new ways of life — H.R.Isaacs > 5. 6. < a kaleidoscope of heart-wrenching incidents — Newsweek > 7. New Zealand Synonyms: < carelessly wrenching the pipe until it bent > < a wrenching effect on the basic structural line — Sidney Hyman > < jerked and wrenched savagely at his bridle, stopping the hard-breathing animal with a furious pull near the colonel — Stephen Crane > wrest commonly indicates a twisting or wrenching, sometimes with crude violence, sometimes with continuing deftness and dexterity, from another's possession into one's own < through the efforts of bold and ambitious men who wrest the power from the lords — Frank Thilly > < while one group of Mississippi valley pioneers advanced into the Southwest to wrest Texas from its Mexican owners — R.A.Billington > < when we could wrest the initiative from our enemies — F.D.Roosevelt > wring indicates a compressive twisting together, often to express or extract < wring out wet clothes > < more farm output, both of foodstuffs and raw materials, must be wrung from the hard-pressed peasants — H.R.Lieberman > < wringing more blackmail from this unwarlike nation — C.S.Forester > II. 1. a. < with an immense wrench … he shook the men from off his back — Liam O'Flaherty > b. (1) (2) c. < in … the famous speech … a curious wrench and change of tone occurs shortly before the ending — Margery Bailey > d. < the wrench it must have been for my wife to leave her infant son at home — O.S.J.Gogarty > < it would be more of a wrench … to change … than to continue in the old cumbersome habits — A.L.Kroeber > also < does not require too much of a psychological wrench for a hardened soldier to get rid of one, two, or three, if he is not in a mood to take prisoners — Theodore Draper > < the wrench from my childish faith in my father as perfect and omniscient — G.B.Shaw > 2. 3. 4. 5. < before he could land another job, hard luck threw a wrench into his plans — F.B.Gipson > III. dialect variant of rinse |
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