
grapple基本信息
读法:英 ["græp(ə)l] 美 ["græpl]
释义:
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星级词汇:★★
英英释义
Noun:
"we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully"
"They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"
中英词源
grapple 扭打,搏斗
词源同grab, grasp. 由抓住引申义扭打,搏斗。
- grapple (n.)
- "iron hook for fastening one thing to another," late 13c., from Old French grapil "hook" (see grapnel).
- grapple (v.)
- 1520s, "seize and hold fast," originally in reference to a ship, by means of a grapple, from grapple (n.). Extended sense of "battle, struggle in close contact" (usually with with) is from 1580s of persons, 1630s of immaterial things. Related: Grappled; grappling. Grappling hook is from 1620s.
词态变化
第三人称单数 grapples;
过去式 grappled;
过去分词 grappled;
现在分词 grappling;
权威造句
- 1. Managers have learned to grapple with networking, artificial intelligence, computer-aided engineering and manufacturing.
- 经理们已经学会了如何应对联网、人工智能、计算机辅助工程和制造。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Many investigators had grapple with the problem, usually with poor results.
- 许多研究人员曾设法解决这个问题, 但是往往没有好结果.
来自辞典例句
- 3. He no longer wishes to grapple furiously with his universe.
- 他已不再愿意同他的环境奋力博斗了.
来自辞典例句
- 4. It is with these problems that Europe now has to grapple.
- 欧洲现在必须对付的就是这些问题.
来自辞典例句
- 5. I seen him grapple four, and knock their heads together - him unarmed."
- 我曾见他赤手空拳地以一对四, 揪住对手的脑袋相互碰撞.”
来自英汉文学 - 金银岛
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单词分析
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记忆方法
1. grab => grapple.
2. 谐音“格来扑”-----一格斗就扑上来。
3. grab => grasp(metathesis of *graps-), grapple.
4. grasp <===> grapple.
5. grape => grapple.
6. grape: The original notion perhaps was "vine hook for grape-picking".
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