wrenching
英 [ˈrentʃɪŋ]
美 [ˈrentʃɪŋ]
v. 猛拉; 猛扭; 猛拧; 扭伤(脚踝、肩膀等); 使痛苦,使十分难过(尤指以致哭喊出声)
wrench的现在分词
COCA.19206
柯林斯词典
- VERB 猛拉;猛拧;猛拽
If youwrenchsomething that is fixed in a particular position, you pull or twist it violently, in order to move or remove it.- He felt two men wrench the suitcase from his hand...
他感觉有两个人在使劲拽他手里的手提箱。 - He wrenched off his sneakers...
他使劲儿脱下运动鞋。 - They wrenched open the passenger doors and jumped into her car.
他们使劲拽开后座车门,跳进了她的车子。
- He felt two men wrench the suitcase from his hand...
- VERB 挣脱;挣开
If youwrenchyourself free from someone who is holding you, you get away from them by suddenly twisting the part of your body that is being held.- She wrenched herself from his grasp...
她从他手里挣脱开来。 - He wrenched his arm free...
他把手臂挣脱开来。 - She tore at one man's face as she tried to wrench free...
她试图挣脱时朝一个男子的脸上抓去。 - I wrenched my hand away from my attacker.
我用力把手从袭击者手里挣脱出来。
- She wrenched herself from his grasp...
- VERB 扭伤(关节)
If youwrenchone of your joints, you twist it and injure it.- He had wrenched his ankle badly from the force of the fall.
他因摔倒而严重扭伤了脚踝。
- He had wrenched his ankle badly from the force of the fall.
- N-SING (离别时的)痛苦,愁楚
If you say that leaving someone or something isa wrench, you feel very sad about it.- I always knew it would be a wrench to leave Essex after all these years...
我一直心里清楚过了这么多年后离开埃塞克斯会非常痛苦。 - Many of the things are of great sentimental value and it is going to be a wrench parting with them...
其中很多东西都具有重要的情感价值,令人难以割舍。 - Although it would be a wrench, we would all accept the challenge of moving abroad.
虽然移居海外会很痛苦,但我们都愿意接受这个挑战。
- I always knew it would be a wrench to leave Essex after all these years...
- 扳钳;活动扳手
Awrenchor amonkey wrenchis an adjustable metal tool used for tightening or loosening metal nuts of different sizes. - PHRASE 作梗;阻挠
If someonethrows a wrenchorthrows a monkey wrenchinto a process, they prevent something happening smoothly by deliberately causing a problem.- Their delegation threw a giant monkey wrench into the process this week by raising all sorts of petty objections.
他们的代表团本周提出了各种细枝末节的反对意见,极在地阻挠了进程。
- Their delegation threw a giant monkey wrench into the process this week by raising all sorts of petty objections.
in BRIT, use 英国英语用 throw a spanner in the works
英英释义
adj
- causing great physical or mental suffering
- a wrenching pain
双语例句
- That experience, never fun, is far less wrenching in a city than in a one-horse town.
这种经历尽管从来都不是乐趣,但在城市,它所带来的痛苦比偏僻的小镇要少得多。 - But the threat of a wrenching slowdown is becoming worryingly plausible.
然而同时关于一个猛然经济减缓的威胁的担忧是不无道理的。 - The Easter weekend provides an opportunity to reflect again on these wrenching topics, on what is important to us and what really matters.
今年的复活节为我们提供了一个再次思考这些令人纠结的问题的机会。利用这个机会,我们还可以想想,哪些东西对我们有着重要的意义,而哪些又是真正重要的。 - Given the wrenching competitive challenges and structural adjustments they are undergoing, that is not surprising.
考虑到他们经历的严峻的竞争挑战和结构调整,这一点并不令人惊讶。 - And the wrenching experience of the 2008 crash has overlaid client concerns about trust and increased demands for transparency.
此外,2008年崩盘的惨痛经历,让客户对信任深感担忧,也增强了对透明度的需求。 - Such declarations, as Francis Fukuyama discovered, tend to be made on the eve of wrenching change.
弗朗西斯福山(francisfukuyama)发现,这种宣言通常都是在剧变出现前夕作出的。 - Wrenching open the back door, Harry hurtled into their midst.
哈利打开后门,一下子蹿到他们中间。 - In the end, wrenching themselves free from the hands of death, the expedition walked out of the desert tenaciously.
终于,探险队顽强地走出了沙漠,挣脱了死神之手。 - The most striking statement at Michael Jackson's memorial service was not his daughter Paris'tremulous and wrenching goodbye.
麦克-杰克逊的追思会上,最引人注目的一句话,不是他女儿帕里斯全身颤抖,痛苦说出的永别; - Known as the sick man of Europe ten years ago, Germany underwent a set of wrenching labour-market reforms starting in 2003.
正如十年前被全欧洲所知的风险家,德国自2003年开始经历了一系列复杂的劳动力市场改革。