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grappling

/grap-ling/US // ˈgræp lɪŋ //UK // (ˈɡræplɪŋ) //

擒拿术,擒拿,擒拿格斗,擒拿法

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : grapnel.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbgrab, wrestle
Antonyms

Examples

  • We read Thomas Piketty because we needed to understand these failures to have any hope of grappling with them.

  • There was something profoundly purging about finally grappling with it by putting it into words.

  • When Booker assumed office, his half-a-million constituents were grappling with high unemployment and rampant poverty.

  • Now Europe is grappling with its worst fear—the threat of an Ebola outbreak.

  • Given the daunting problems the city is grappling with—massive debt and a severe pension crisis—can you blame them?

  • The time of hard grappling with the overwhelming fulness of actuality is over.

  • Peter was moved not only because this was his son but because here was a fellow human being grappling with the common enemy.

  • Grappling for broken cable On the way from Misamis to Iligan, 87.

  • And well for him her grasping handAnd grappling arm were strong!

  • Already he was far away on a new line of thought, while the other was still grappling with his first surprise.