grapple
美 [ˈɡræp(ə)l] 
英 ['ɡræp(ə)l]
- n.格斗；紧握；抓机；同“grapnel”
- v.扭打；搏斗；努力设法解决
- 网络抓住；抓钩；抓斗
词形变化
第三人称单数：grapples 现在分词：grappling 过去式：grappled 同义词
英汉双解
1. | [i][t] 扭打；搏斗to take a firm hold of sb/sth and struggle with them |
| Passers-by grappled with the man after the attack. 袭击之后过路人便与这男人扭打起来。 |
| They managed to grapple him to the ground. 他们终于把他摔倒在地。 |
2. | [i] 努力设法解决to try hard to find a solution to a problem |
| The new government has yet to grapple with the problem of air pollution. 新政府还需尽力解决空气污染问题。 |
| I was grappling to find an answer to his question. 我正在努力想办法解决他的问题。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
in the hope of being able to grapple a corner of the raft and pull it out of the current towards our bank.
希望能够钩住筏子一角，将它拽出激流，拖回岸边。
She had to grapple with her homosexuality for years until she couldn't keep it bottled up and decided to come out.
她为自己的同性恋倾向纠结了很久，最后她决定出柜不再隐瞒。
The police warned the public that it would be dangerous to grapple with the wanted man, as he was armed.
警察当局警告公众，与那个通缉犯格斗是危险的，因为他携带武器。
"Part of what I had to grapple with as a child was the limitations of logic, " is all he offers as an explanation.
对此他唯一能说的是：‘我小的时候感到非常不解的问题之一，就是逻辑推理的局限性。’
It comes down to what economists struggle to model and managers grapple with all day: judgment.
归根结底，这取决于经济学家努力建立模型、经理人整日为之挠头的一个问题：判断。
But am I serious enough to grapple with all this on my own?
但是我有足够认真来独自应对这一切吗？
He was forced to grapple with the problem when he analysed the satellite data and found a slight decline in precipitation around Adi Ha.
当他分析了卫星数据，发现阿迪哈周围降雨量略有下降时，他不得不尽力解决这个问题。
My mind told me, if I don't grapple with that, the children who are my audience will never trust me again.
我的想法告诉我，如果我不抓住这些灵感，我的观众――孩子们就不会再信任我了。
Thereafter, he began to grapple with modern events in his own way through fables that often crisscross time.
后来，他开始以自己的方式、通过时常时间交错的寓言着手解决当代重大事件。
As America starts to grapple with its out-of-control spending habits, we as a nation really should reckon with our education costs.
随着美国开始与它搏斗外的控制消费习惯，我们作为一个国家确实应该估计与我们的教育费用。
This was the context in which the United States attempted to grapple with the dynamics of the Soviet system.
这就是美国试图同苏维埃制度的原动力搏斗的来龙去脉。
Abroad, this 21st-century president will have to grapple with the sort of great-power rivalries last seen in the 19th century (see article).
在国外，这位21世纪的总统将不得不与强大的对手进行争斗，上一次出现这种情况还要追朔到19世纪。
Ministers must eventually grapple with the question of whether to lift the ban on free schools being run for profit.
部长们最终必须抉择是否取消禁止自由学校以盈利为目的来运行的法令。
Demand for China's exports is under threat as the U. S. recovery weakens and European officials grapple with a sovereign-debt crisis.
中国出口的需求受到威胁，削弱了美国经济复苏和欧洲官员因主权债务危机的搏斗。
Inside, we cover the eight common relationship stumbles most couples grapple with, as well as the six steps to help overcome them.
在这里，我们会谈到这八个障碍，以及克服它们的六大步骤。
The very existence of computers has created a new range of social problems or issues with which we urgently need to grapple.
电脑的存在确实造成了一系列急需我们处理的新的社会问题。
On the way of study, we must be ready to grapple with many difficulties.
在求学的道路上，我们准备克服很多的困难。
The company has also become a focus of Washington as lawmakers and regulators grapple with online privacy issues and Internet security.
随着立法者和管理者正努力应对网络隐私和网络安全问题，公司也引起了华盛顿方面的关注。
We must be prepared to grapple with the complexity of the world and the competing demands of sometimes incompatible values.
我们必须做好准备，努力应对世界的复杂性，互斥的需求以及不相容的价值观。
She drew a deep breath and met his eyes squarely, all coquetry and airs gone as her spirit rushed out to grapple that which she feared most.
她深深地吸了口气，勇敢地迎着他的目光，她既然敢于冲出去抓那件她最害怕的东西。一切的风情媚态便都不复存在了。
Out of the house to the nearby have the villager home shovel, pickaxe, grapple, borrowed, or simply to set bought three two pieces.
纷纷的走出大杂院到附近老乡家借来铁锨、镢头、抓钩等，有的干脆跑到集上买了三两件来。
He did Not at all grapple with the real question.
他根本没有设法处理真正的问题。
The Chinese government appears ready to spend billions to grapple with this dismal situation.
中国政府打算耗资数十亿元来应付这个问题。
At least, cut off from the irritations of literary London, he was free to grapple unencumbered with the new novel.
不过，逃离了令人思维枯竭的伦敦，他有更多的自由投入到新小说的创作中。
He had weight and might be expected to grapple with a disease and throw it.
他威风凛凛，看样子就是一个可以与疾病博斗，把它制服的勇士。
One of its top negotiator framed by police officials, had to grapple plotter behind forced the stage face.
一名最顶尖的谈判专家被警局官员陷害，只好挟持人质把幕后主使逼上台面。
As organizations grapple with these challenges, many are turning to software to help them comply with the law without adding staff.
在组织处理这些挑战时，多数组织转向能够帮助他们遵守法律要求的、不增加人员开支的软件系统。
Many of today's start-ups have to grapple with logistical problems that used to be the preserve of large companies.
今天，许多的初创企业不得不为了物流问题绞尽脑汁，而以前这只是大公司的问题。
Now, Uldyssian must grapple with the energies building within him -- lest they consume the last vestiges of his humanity.
现在，Uldyssian必须与在自己身体里的力量做斗争，以免它们磨灭他最后的一点人性。
But those proceedings have been suspended for a month while prosecution and defence grapple with the latest allegations.
控辩双方在最新审理过程中激烈周旋，诉讼已进行了一个月，至今悬而未决。
EUROPE'S year-long attempt to grapple with the sovereign-debt crisis is becoming more nailbiting by the day.
一年以来，欧洲一直为试图解决主权债务危机而绞尽脑汁，现在，这一问题变得更加令人挠头了。
Now Obama will have some of his own reassuring to do as we grapple with the current economic crisis.
而现在，奥巴马将会使用一些自己独有的方式，来鼓励我们尽力渡过目前的经济危机。
The company will also have to grapple with declining Hummer sales and tighter fuel efficiency standards, both in the U. S. and in China.
这家公司还将面对悍马销售下滑和中美两国都提高燃油经济性标准的挑战。
He'll grapple and gnaw at creatures just long enough to give you some time to retreat and wing some firebombs or send some mongrels in.
它会抓住、撕咬敌人，这样你就有足够时间撤退或是释放火焰骷髅，亦或是丢出几个混血兽。
Grapple over the wall, run to the back and grapple onto the upper balcony.
翻墙进去跑到后面然后用抓钩上到上层的阳台。
As communities nationwide grapple with tenacious unemployment, migrant workers are often accused of stealing jobs from Americans.
当全国上下都在与顽强的失业率搏斗时，移民工人常常被指责偷走了美国人的就业机会。
The two stepsisters begin to grapple and in a minute, the beautiful dress is torn into pieces.
二个异父姊妹开始抓住，而且在分钟中，美丽的洋装进入块之内被撕开。灰姑娘非常忧愁。
Presence plays an increasingly important role as companies grapple with a weak recovery and fewer management layers.
当公司在努力应对复苏乏力和管理层级减少的困难时，领导形象的作用愈显重要。
If you are to grapple with the difficult process of thinking in writing, I cannot afford to spend time reminding you of formal rules.
如果说你为思考写作的困难过程而抓狂，我不能忍受的是，再花时间提醒你写作的规范。
Even if Mr Rogers, a writer and human-rights activist, knew Burmese, he would grapple with the secrecy that surrounds the junta.
尽管罗杰斯先生是一位作家兼人权主义者，并且了解缅甸人，但是他还是要和包围在执政党周围的秘密做斗争。
