| 词汇 | clenched |
| 释义 | clenched past simple and past participle ofclench clench verb[ T ] uk /klentʃ/ us /klentʃ/ to close or hold something very tightly, often in a determined or angry way: （常指坚决或生气地）捏紧，握紧，咬紧 The old man clenched his fist and waved it angrily at us.那老头紧握着拳头，气哼哼地向我们挥舞着。 With a knife clenched in/between his teeth, he climbed up the tree to cut some coconuts.他嘴里紧咬着一把刀，爬上树去割椰子。 "Get out of here," she said through clenched teeth.“滚出去，”她咬牙切齿地说。 Having in your hands arm chokehold clasp clench cling clutch dandle grasp grim grip hand in handidiom handle hang hang/hold on like grim deathidiom join handsidiom nurse onto purchase seize taken Examples of clenchedclenched In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The work portrays a lower-class young woman, one hand holding her child, the other clenched into a fist on her hip. To make her example fully concrete, let us imagine that ' *unsqueeze ' is being used to refer to the voluntary opening of a clenched fist. Tension in the facial flexor muscles gives contraction around the eyes, retraction of the lips, and clenched teeth due to the contracted jaw flexor muscles. And then he clenched both hands and started to come towards me. B: the fist is clenched or opened. He was shown in a photograph being met by some young lads on a railway station and giving the clenched-fist salute. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is quite immaterial to me whether her husband happens to salute with his arm extended or with his fist clenched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The alliance appears to fear the proffered handshake more than it did the clenched fist. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He moved to the centre of the room and raised his hands with clenched fists above his head. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I defend the inclusion of the words, but not through clenched teeth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not much good holding out the hand of friendship, with a fist clenched behind one's back. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We never quite believed their commitment because they forced it out through clenched teeth and took an awful long time to make it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is also the fear that the proposed "golden handshake"will in fact become a clenched fist there by deleting the word"voluntary"and inserting the word"compulsory". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The poem of one young girl is set against a picture of two people in black masks with their arms raised in the air in clenched fist salutes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has been truly said that the trouble is that as each nation's arm becomes stronger fists become clenched, and when fists are clenched it is difficult to shake hands. 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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