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单词 wrestle
释义
wrestle
verb[IorT]
uk
/ˈres.əl/us
/ˈres.əl/
tofightwith someone (especiallyas asport) byholdingthem andtryingtothrowthem to theground:
（尤指作为运动）（与…）摔跤，角力；（将…）摔倒
He has wrestledprofessionallyfor fiveyears.他从事职业摔跤已有5年了。
Thepoliceofficertackledthe man and wrestled himto theground.警察揪住那个人，并把他摔倒在地。
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Phrasal verb

wrestle withsomething
(Definition ofwrestlefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

wrestle| American Dictionary

wrestle
verb[I/T]
us
/ˈres·əl/
tofightwith someone byholdingandtryingtothrowthatpersonto theground, or to do this as asport:
[I]He wrestled for IowaStateUniversity.

wrestler

noun[C]us
/ˈres·lər/
professionalwrestlers

Phrasal verb

wrestle withsomething
(Definition ofwrestlefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwrestle

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Newly elected men wrestled with consciences or argued with colleagues and immediately declined or subsequently resigned the proferred position.
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Scholars have posited numerous definitions of spirituality and wrestled with the notion of spiritual pain and suffering.
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These are issues that we and all of our colleagueswrestlewith on a daily basis.
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But while the victim hesitated, he made an effort to grab the keys from her and eventually wrestled them from her grasp.
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In such a hostile atmosphere, the protagonist wrestles with the question of an alternative maleness and finds himself attracted to men rather than women.
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The evangelists would have towrestleconstantly with the contradictions of commerce.
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Liberalism is austere, people respond to tribal passions, every nation wrestles with its demonic urges.
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Here, some of the classic workswrestlewith how to extract dateable historical facts from oral performance.
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The counter-position to this one is, roughly, that wrestling makes everything worse.
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Quite apart from external attempts to influence them, corporate laboratories have always wrestled with problems of internal financial accountability.
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The music wrestles back and forth between the deep attacks and frenzied tunes.
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Thoughtful researchers have long recognized the inadequacies of the paradigm and have struggled towrestlein meaningful ways with their phenomena within its considerable constraints.
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This extended metaphor sketches out in broad strokes the nature of the fear of triviality with which the commentator has towrestle.
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The value-driven partisan instability we find implies that some part of the electorate wrestles with the decisions that confront them in politics.
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Other authors wrestled with ' the throes of an often painful love relationship with the divine ' (p. 119).
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