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wrest

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UK [rest]
  • v.夺取；扭；勉强取得；曲解
  • n.扭；【乐】(调校琴弦的)校音钥
  • Web拧；抢夺；歪曲
Simple Present：wrests  Present Participle：wresting  Past Tense：wrested  

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v.
1.
(用力)拧,扭;扭夺,夺取,抢去(武器等) (from)
2.
费力取得,勉强取得
3.
歪曲(事实等),曲解
4.
探出(秘密),逼迫(承认等) (from)
1.
(用力)拧,扭;扭夺,夺取,抢去(武器等) (from)
2.
费力取得,勉强取得
3.
歪曲(事实等),曲解
4.
探出(秘密),逼迫(承认等) (from)
n.
1.
拧,扭
2.
【乐】(调校琴弦的)校音钥

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AllAll,夺取夺取,扭扭,勉强取得勉强取得,曲解曲解,校音钥校音钥,拧拧,抢夺抢夺,歪曲歪曲
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1.
Wrested the book out of his hands; wrested the islands from the settlers.
从他手里夺过来那本书；从原殖民者手中夺过那座岛。
cóng tā shǒu lǐ duó guò lái nà běn shū ; cóng yuán zhí mín zhě shǒu zhōng duó guò nà zuò dǎo 。
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2.
He was like the Emperor of China, who sat glorying in himself, unaware that his fairest provinces were being wrested from him.
他就像中国皇帝坐在龙庭上自鸣得意，不知道他的最好的省份已被人夺去了。
tā jiù xiàng zhōng guó huáng dì zuò zài lóng tíng shàng zì míng dé yì , bù zhī dào tā de zuì hǎo de shěng fèn yǐ bèi rén duó qù le 。
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3.
It was an unlikely triumph wrested from a moment of national humiliation.
这是在国耻期间的几乎不可能的胜利。
zhè shì zài guó chǐ qī jiān de jī hū bù kě néng de shèng lì 。
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4.
American units will be "embedded" within Iraqi formations to help them hold neighbourhoods wrested from armed groups.
美军战斗单位将“混编”入伊拉克部队，帮助他们守住从武装团体手中夺回的邻近地区。
měi jūn zhàn dòu dān wèi jiāng " hún biān " rù yī lā kè bù duì , bāng zhù tā men shǒu zhù cóng wǔ zhuāng tuán tǐ shǒu zhōng duó huí de lín jìn dì qū 。
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5.
But he has proven electoral appeal, having wrested control of the traditionally conservative Bundang constituency in a by-election in April.
不过他已经证明了他的选举魅力，在4月份的选举中此人已经获得了传统保守的盆唐区的拥护。
bú guò tā yǐ jīng zhèng míng le tā de xuǎn jǔ mèi lì , zài sì yuè fèn de xuǎn jǔ zhōng cǐ rén yǐ jīng huò dé le chuán tǒng bǎo shǒu de pén táng qū de yōng hù 。
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6.
We fought off the effects of this natural calamity and wrested a good harvest.
我们努力消除天灾造成的影响，夺得了好收成。
wǒ men nǔ lì xiāo chú tiān zāi zào chéng de yǐng xiǎng , duó dé le hǎo shōu chéng 。
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7.
Last year, it wrested control of the $200 billion China Investment Corporation, which had been bankrolled by the central bank.
去年，它终于掌管了身价2000亿美元、此前由央行提供资金的中国投资公司。
qù nián , tā zhōng yú zhǎng guǎn le shēn jià liǎng qiān yì měi yuán 、 cǐ qián yóu yāng háng tí gōng zī jīn de zhōng guó tóu zī gōng sī 。
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In another major development, revolutionary fighters said they wrested control of the coastal city Thursday.
革命士兵称他们取得的另一个重要进展，就是周四他们控制了这座海边城市。
gé mìng shì bīng chēng tā men qǔ dé de lìng yī gè zhòng yào jìn zhǎn , jiù shì zhōu sì tā men kòng zhì le zhè zuò hǎi biān chéng shì 。
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9.
He wrested it from her hands.
他从她手里夺到了它。
tā cóng tā shǒu lǐ duó dào le tā 。
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10.
An intervention in 2005 by Dick Cheney, then vice-president, wrested an armful of exemptions specifically for cracking.
2005年，迪克·切尼（后任副总统）引发干预，对压裂进行大力免税。
èr líng líng wǔ nián , dí kè · qiè ní ( hòu rèn fù zǒng tǒng ) yǐn fā gān yù , duì yā liè jìn xíng dà lì miǎn shuì 。
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