grappled

英 [ˈɡræpld]

美 [ˈɡræpld]

v.  扭打; 搏斗; 努力设法解决
grapple的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 努力解决（问题）；设法克服（困难）
  If yougrapple witha problem or difficulty, you try hard to solve it.
  1. The economy is just one of several critical problems the country is grappling with.
     经济问题只是该国正竭力解决的几个关键问题之一。
• V-RECIP 扭打;搏斗
  If yougrapple withsomeone, you take hold of them and struggle with them, as part of a fight. You can also say that two peoplegrapple.
  1. He was grappling with an alligator in a lagoon...
     他正在环礁湖里与一只短吻鳄搏斗。
  2. They grappled desperately for control of the weapon.
     他们疯狂扭打，想把武器抢到手。

双语例句

• Some of these questions we have grappled with; at others we have done little more than glance.
  这些问题中的有一些我们努力探究过了；在其他的我们不比匆匆扫视做得更多。
• I grappled with this paradox for several years by withdrawing from anything that might lead other people.
  我与这个悖论搏斗多年，逃避任何可能领导其他人的机会。
• The two grappled with each other.
  两人扭在一起。
• The two wrestlers grappled together.
  两个摔交手扭在一起。
• William Gladstone grappled with this during the 19th-century debates about Irish home rule.
  威廉•格拉德斯通（WilliamGladstone）在19世纪有关爱尔兰自治的辩论中就曾面对过这个问题。
• Luckily, bigger brains than mine have grappled with this question.
  幸运的是比我更聪明的人已经解决了这个问题。
• His mind has grappled with space and time, and explored the strange beauty of black holes aglow, but in recent days a more earthly problem has occupied the world's most famous scientist.
  他的思想已经掌握了空间和时间，并探索过黑洞发出红光的奇怪美景，但最近几天一个更加实际的问题已经使这位世界上最著名科学家忙碌起来。
• They grappled desperately for control of the weapon.
  他们疯狂扭打，想把武器抢到手。
• She grappled with the bank robber, but was thrown to the ground.
  她与抢劫银行的强盗扭打，被强盗摔倒在地上。
• She grappled with her assailant but he got away. The guards wrestled with the intruders.
  她与袭击者扭打而他却逃走了.护卫员同闯入的人扭打起来。