| 词汇 | wrested |
| 释义 | wrested past simple and past participle ofwrest wrest verb[ T+ adv/prep ] uk /rest/ us /rest/ formal to get something with effort or difficulty: 辛苦谋求;费力取得 The shareholders are planning to wrest control of the company (away)from the current directors.股东们正在计划从现任董事们手中夺取公司的控制权。 to violently pull something away from someone: 夺取;攫取 He wrested the letter from my grasp.他从我手中夺走了那封信。 Getting, receiving and accepting acceptance acquirable acquire acquisition awardee carve draw earn get back get out of something get/lay/put your hands on someoneidiom glom onto something/someone go to someone score screw screw something out of someone seize seize on/upon something snap something up You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Pulling Examples of wrestedwrested In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. At university campuses, communists stepped up their criticism of capitalist development and wrested control of student and faculty unions. First, formal politics expanded as the state assumed new f unctions and wrested control of tasks from institutions that were previously independent of the state. Workers wrested a lot of power from owners and won real concessions in the workplace. Their prominence in working groups enabled police representatives to frustrate agreement and important concessions were wrested from government. In very difficult personal circumstances, disabled people have wrested control from professionals, at least in limited ways. In 1912, the department wrested control of parcel post delivery from the nation's express companies, rendering them obsolete in the parcel market in under a decade. In addition, agricultural cooperatives and ministry bureaucrats wrested control over the regulation of key farm inputs such as petroleum and fertilizers away from business interests and their allies in government. The great transforming force in modern human history has been a voracious capitalism, which, for example, has invaded the family and wrested from it its traditional socializing functions. That privilege will only be taken from us when it is forcibly wrested. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was not a concession wrested from unwilling clerics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 From our capacity in these days to create wealth surely can be wrested some standards of supplementary pensions of the aged? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a great opportunity to harness all that has now been wrested in the name of science and is now available to us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They preferred a settlement necessarily unstable because it could only be wrested by force. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Once the scientists have wrested secrets from nature, the secrets cannot be returned to nature. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It does not help if large amounts of money are wrested from education — no matter how many lovely nouns such as "articulateness" are used. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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