| 词汇 | wresting |
| 释义 | wresting present 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 wrestingwresting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. His domination over the folk-arts had moreover been consolidated by wresting control of the folk-dance movement as well. The instrument acts like a generic vocal mechanism trying out gradually more complex exercises, wresting organized sound out of a bare and lifeless resonance. Correspondingly, outgoing parties created political and patronage opportunities in decentralised offices, but did not succeed in wresting power over political and fiscal decisionmaking from their erstwhile allies in the state. The new operators have not proved very successful in wresting routes away from the original operator. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is bound to be great delay in wresting land from its owners by means of compulsory purchase orders. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was the coal face—a typical situation where, hundreds of feet below the surface, lonely miners worked at wresting the coal from the mine. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The wresting of coal from the bowels of the earth was a gross interference with nature, yet it led to great benefits for mankind. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The latter see the proletariat as the chief agents of change and the chief beneficiaries of change—indeed, the chief instruments for wresting power from the owners of property. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The committee concluded that, at its worst, labour-only sub-contracting produced faulty work by irresponsible men concerned only with wresting the greatest possible gain from the industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we were to begin to do the necessary work now, at speed, we should stand a chance of wresting human understanding and development from the black jaws of habit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The skill and courage they have shown in tackling the immense problems in wresting oil and gas from one of the most hostile territories in the world demand universal praise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By the 1990s women proved eager to enter formerly all-mail sports such as ice hockey, rugby, and wresting. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The two men try to fight it out, but end up futilely wresting on the floor. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This also refers directly to a wresting competition on muddy ground. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In magnetic gait, each step is initiated in a wresting motion carrying feet upward and forward. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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