| 单词 | wrestle |
| 释义 | wres·tle I. intransitive verb 1. a. b. < he wrestled with his soul for a long time — Nicolas Slonimsky > < wrestling all his life with a feeling that he must be two different people at the same time — Eleanor Harris > < the devilish and the divine wrestle for this boy's soul — Lee Rogow > < had to wrestle desperately for a living in a … more competitive economy — C.J.Rolo > c. < the engineer who must wrestle with mining, water-supply, or transportation problems — P.E.James > < brooding over and wrestling with ideas — M.R.Cohen > < wrestling with the difficulties of transforming the reality of experience into the autonomous reality of fiction — Carlos Lynes > d. < stevedores wrestled with their loads — Joseph Wechsberg > < a nest of ants wrestling and tugging at a handful of bread crumbs — Norman Mailer > < less painful to slip a check into an envelope than wrestle with the Christmas crowds — New Yorker > e. < God's Son was wrestling in an agony of prayer — W.F.Hambly > 2. a. b. < the icebreaker … could smash, slash, and wrestle almost indefinitely through solid pack ice — R.E.Byrd > transitive verb 1. a. b. < wrestle an alligator > 2. < wrestled cotton bales on the levee — H.A.Sinclair > < wrestled a kind of manhole from the top of one tank — New Yorker > < wrestle the car along gravelly roads — R.M.Hodesh > Synonyms: < the perfectionist's instinct for wrestling with a problem until he had shaped it to his mental image — Irving Kolodin > < the senate was wrestling with the definition of unfair practices — F.L.Paxson > tussle may suggest a lighter, less arduous contesting or coping with at close quarters < in bed screaming, determined to run away, tussling with my mother and father — Richard Wright > < all major presidents have tussled with the Supreme Court — R.A.Billington > grapple may center attention on coming to grips with and striving for a vantage hold calculated to gain one mastery < grappled and fell with his man, and shot him with a pistol — C.S.Forester > < a serious intelligence that must grapple with realities and shape them to its will — V.L.Parrington > scuffle may apply to a short, haphazard, and not very serious contest involving confusion, scrambling, and noise < scuffled together, their laughter hooting down the street — Gordon Webber > II. < after a lengthy wrestle, he succeeded in extracting a tooth — R.L.Taylor > < the metaphysical wrestle with the question of what is reality — Robert Richman > specifically |
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