cling
美 [klɪŋ] 
英 [klɪŋ]
词形变化
过去式：clung 第三人称单数：clings 现在分词：clinging 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | [i] 抓紧；紧握；紧抱to hold on tightly to sb/sth |
| survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者 |
| She clung on to her baby. 她紧紧抱住她的婴儿。 |
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| They clung together, shivering with cold. 他们紧紧地抱在一起，冷得直发抖。 |
| a dress that clings(= fits closely and shows the shape of your body) 紧身连衣裙 |
| The wet shirt clung to his chest. 湿衬衫紧贴在他的胸部。 |
| The smell of smoke still clung to her clothes. 烟味仍附着在她的衣服上不散。 |
3. | [i] ~ (to sb) （尤指情感上）依恋，依附to stay close to sb, especially because you need them emotionally |
| After her mother's death, Sara clung to her aunt more than ever. 萨拉在母亲去世后比以往任何时候都更依附于她的姨妈。 |
英汉解释
v. | 1. 依恋(朋友等);依靠,依附;赖住,守牢(家庭);抱定(希望);坚信,坚持,墨守 (to) |
英英解释
例句
See the world in another perspective, to see another world. Do not cling to one way of thinking, both sides of the ever-present in anything!
用另一种眼光看世界，看到的是另一个世界。别执着于单向思维，双面性永远存在于任何事物！
The houses cling to the hillside as if hung there by the wind.
民居紧紧贴住山坡上，似乎是由海风的力量固定着的。
Gbagbo's popular support may be dwindling as he cracks down on the population in his bid to cling to power.
巴博总统的民众支持可能会减少，因为他对人民的镇压，他为了攫取权力。
Early in the morning to prepare breakfast for her to see her lazy to get up at night to let her cling to their own, until sleep.
清晨为她准备早餐，看她懒懒的起床，夜晚让她依偎着自己，直到进入梦乡。
I watched her off the body, the hard, the little boy involuntarily, I Xialechuang, want to cling to her. Get out of the way of her gentle.
我看着她脱光的身体，小弟弟不由自主的又硬了起来，我下了床，想抱住她，她轻轻的闪开了。
She seemed to realise it in a sort of pussy -like way and instinctively concluded to cling with her soft little claws to Carrie.
她就像小猫一样意识到了这一点，本能地决定要用她那柔软的小爪子抓住嘉莉不放。
In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
在没有未来的世界里，现在之外空空如也，人们攀附着现在，就好像悬挂在崖边。
Should they cling on to a slim ray of hope and wait for a miracle, or should they give up and be surprised by a miracle if it happens?
他们应该抓住渺小的希望等待奇迹还是应该放弃，而惊奇于奇迹的发生呢？
Illness brought her a strange restlessness and made her all the more eager to cling to life and squeeze from it the last drop of happiness.
这种病使她特别敏感不安，她越发急切于抓住人生不放，似乎是要把人生的甜蜜幸福挤到最后的一滴而后已。
Don't cling to the unrealistic expectation that you'll be able to resolve the problem or get the other person to see it your way.
不要坚持不切合实际的期望，认为你将能解决问题，或者让他人以你的方式看到它。
An attempt to salvage a stuck anchor capsized the boat, and the four men were forced to cling to the hull to survive.
当他们试图让被卡住的锚恢复正常时不慎翻了船，四人只得紧紧抓住船身保命。
You may deny discipline, order, and cling to an idea of what you think is freedom, but your very concept is a denial of freedom.
你可能否定纪律，否定秩序，然后坚持某个你认为是自由的想法，但正是你的那个概念是对自由的否定。
Each cage is the size of a big . Inside are panels, much like the frames in a , to which the abalones cling.
每个笼子的大小相当于一个大型冰箱，里头用镶板隔开，很像蜂窝的结构，鲍鱼就附着在镶板上。
Indeed, even when their antics are beginning to have an adverse effect on your own reputation, you still cling to the emotional commitment.
事实上，当小丑们的滑稽举动对你声望有负面影响时，你仍然坚守着情感承诺。
So do not be put off by the traditionalists, the conservatives, or those who cling to the illusion that change can only come from without.
所以不要被传统、保守的人或那些坚信“改变只能从外部到来”这个错误观念的人阻碍。
When Maureen Rohrs was teaching herself to swim, she would cling to the side of the pool as if life itself depended on it.
当莫琳Rohrs教她游泳，她会抱住一侧的游泳池，犹如生活本身依赖于它。
When I sat behind him, hesitated for a long time whether or not to cling to his waist, I miss the warmth of his generous spine.
我坐在他身后的时候，迟疑了很久要不要抱住他的腰，我很想念他宽厚脊背的温暖。
' When that happens you see the child cling to a parent and cry, convinced there's a very real chance of harm, " Rudd told LiveScience. "
这时候你会看见小孩紧紧抓住父母哭起来，认为真的有可能受伤。
the return of mass unemployment could prove lethal to any remaining chance that Labour will cling to power at the next election.
大规模失业的结果将是致命的，它可以毁灭任何可以被劳工党抓住的以使其可以在下次选举中获胜的机会。
But they have never managed to cling to these scientific credentials, or to tone down the religious ones.
但他们从未依附于这些科学依据，或者放下宗教的高调。
I shall cling closer to her than before.
我将比以往更加疼爱她。
To Soames a kind of affection seemed to cling about it all, a sort of picturesque which was out of date.
在索米斯眼中这一切好象全都有一种做作神气，虽则入画，可是已经不入时了。
She managed to cling on to life for another couple of years.
她顽强地又活了几年。
I cling to the belief that there is yet hope that I am not condemned to perpetual exile.
我坚持这个信念；我还是有希望的，不会被判处终身流放。
We should cling together in times of trouble.
困难时我们要团结一致。
Mozart in music are beginning to reflect his sadness, anger and even protest, but still cling to a brighter future naive, sincere yearning.
莫扎特在音乐里开始体现他的悲伤、愤懑、甚至抗议，同时仍然对美好的未来抱着天真、诚挚的向往。
Sooner or later, the Arab world will rid itself of these furious madmen, who cling to power even if it means multiple massacres.
这些狂暴的疯子即使滥杀无辜也要紧抓权利不放，而阿拉伯世界迟早将摆脱他们的统治。
Scientists are trying to figure out why even the skeptics among us cling to lucky numbers, special game-day clothing and other odd rituals.
科学家正设法弄清楚为什么连抱怀疑我们当中幸运号码特殊游戏天等多名礼仪服装。
FOR the dwindling number of souls who cling to a vision of a single, global financial exchange, this week must have given pause for thought.
随着孤芳自赏的全球金融交易所日渐稀少，那些证交所的领军者们是否该在本周暂停下扩张的步伐，好好思考一番呢？
Do not take for granted the things closest to your heart . Cling to them as you would your life , for without them, life is meaningless .
不要对内心深处的东西漠然视之。对它们要像生命一样看重，没有它们生活就没有意义。
They must cling to that awareness in years ahead, for what they have done is only a start.
未来多年期间，他们必须坚持这种意识，因为他们迄今所做的，只是一个开始。
Some European diplomats cling to the idea that the Palestinian issue remains at the heart of the instability in the Middle East.
一些欧洲外交官坚持认为，巴勒斯坦问题依然是中东地区不稳定的核心。
Lying there is Giff, fingers clenched like he's trying to cling to a ledge, poor pink glasses hanging off one ear.
躺在那里的是吉夫，手指抠抠着，就像他想要扒住窗台似的，倒霉的粉红框眼镜耷拉在一只耳朵上。
Tying the lanyard around his wrist, Lim lay flat on the ledge, ready to cling to the decking when the squall broke.
林奋把救生索套在手腕上，身子平躺立夏，准备迎接暴风雨的来临。
In life, our stupidest course of action is to cling too much to what we have and refuse to let it go.
在生活中，我们最愚蠢的行为就是太执着于自己的东西，不愿意放弃。
As the young try to cling on to the vanishing old ways, a new age of conservatism has taken hold.
年轻人试图抱住行将消失的老一套，一个新时代的保守主义已经生根。
Cling to what you know in your heart is best.
要紧紧抱住你心里认为最好的东西。
Atheists, by contrast, have nothing to look forward to after death, so they might be expected to cling to life.
相反地，无神论者对死后的东西毫不向往，所以他们对生命的渴求十分强烈。
I am learning that I must free the one I love, for if I clutch or cling, try to control, I lose what I try to hold.
我学习，我必须释放我爱的人，因为如果我离合器或抱住，设法控制，我失去了我想要握。
He does not cling tightly to classical principles, but sees all conceivable possibilities when he is confronted with a physical problem.
当他遇到一个物理学问题时，他从不拘泥于权威的原理，却可以想到一切可以想象的可能性。
Huang mother-in-law and his wife immediately stubbornly cling to men, also asked to necklaces .
黄婆婆和老伴立即死死抱住男子，要求还回项链。
Prices may be sticky for a while, as developers cling to hope that the sales slump will prove temporary.
由于开发商希望销量骤减只是暂时现象，价格或许仍将坚挺一段时间。
One of its spindly legs terminates in a magna pod, allowing it to cling tenaciously to an enemy's hull.
在它一条细腿的末端装有磁体，使它能牢牢粘住敌机的外壳。
The men that breed from them they traffic up and down, but cling to their cities' hem as a child to the mother's gown.
靠这些城市抚育着人们，让他们来来往往，但仅仅依附于城市的折缝之中，有如孩子依附于母亲的睡袍一样。
I could not believe that a woman with her educational background and her exposure to such societies could cling to such rigid notions.
我简直不敢相信一个有着如此教育背景和那样的社会环境的女子能坚持这种僵化的观念。
