词汇 | clutch-grasp-at-straws |
释义 | clutch/grasp at strawsidiom to be willing to try anything to improve a difficult or unsatisfactory situation, even if it has little chance of success: (为摆脱困境)抓救命稻草,不放过任何微小的机会 She offered to take a pay cut to keep her job, but she was just clutching at straws.她提出减薪以保住工作,但这只不过是在乱抓救命稻草。 Wanting things ache for something acquisitive ambitious ambitiously angle for something desperate expense fancy hunger hunger after/for something hungrily hungry pine set your heart on something/doing somethingidiom set your sights on somethingidiom shook shopping list sight someone's heart's desireidiom straw |
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