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
- Egypt now faces wrenching changes.
埃及目前正在经历剧烈的变革。 - However, with the trade deficit in the US and other countries shrinking, some economists fear China could yet face a wrenching adjustment in its external accounts.
不过,随着美国和其它国家的贸易逆差缩小,一些经济学家担心,中国仍可能面对一次外部账户的痛苦调整。 - And in the days since December, I have read, with immense pain, the wrenching stories of people whose life savings have evaporated because of his crime.
自去年12月以来的那些日子里,我看到了很多令人揪心的故事,很多人一生的积蓄因他的欺诈罪行而被蒸发。 - We need help, these wrenching films say, when we can no longer help ourselves.
“我们需要帮助”,这些沉重的电影道出了这个主题,“当我们不再能够自救的时候”。 - To cause a painful cramp or muscle spasm in by turning or wrenching.
因扭转或猛扭而引起剧痛的肌肉痉挛。 - It is easy to be jealous of those who go through life without a moment of wrenching guilt.
有些人一辈子不曾揪心地内疚过,羡慕他们倒很容易。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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; - Either way, China faces a wrenching economic adjustment.
无论是哪种方式,中国将面临痛苦的经济调整。