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to fight somebody by holding them and trying to throw or force them to the ground, sometimes as a sport 摔跤 As a boy he had boxed and wrestled. 他小时候练过拳击和摔跤。 🔊🔊 - wrestle with somebody
Armed guards wrestled with the intruder. 武装警卫和闯入者扭打起来。 🔊🔊 She tried to wrestle with her attacker. 她试图与攻击者搏斗。 - wrestle somebody (+ adv./prep.)
Shoppers wrestled the raider to the ground. 购物的人把抢劫者摔倒在地上。 🔊🔊
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to struggle physically to move or manage something 奋力对付；努力处理；全力解决 - wrestle with something
He wrestled with the controls as the plane plunged. 飞机向下冲时，他竭力控制住操纵装置。 🔊🔊 - wrestle something + adv./prep.
She wrestled the keys out of the ignition. 她使劲把插在点火装置上的钥匙拔下来。
- wrestle with something
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to struggle to deal with something that is difficult 奋力对付；努力处理；全力解决 - wrestle with something
She had spent the whole weekend wrestling with the problem. 她整个周末都在绞尽脑汁处理这个问题。 🔊🔊 We wrestled for hours with the problem of which job to do first. 我们为首先要做哪一项工作而费了好几个小时。 - wrestle to do something
She has been wrestling to raise the money all year. 她一年来一直在想方设法筹集这笔资金。 🔊🔊
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Word OriginOld English, frequentative of wrǣstan ‘wrest’.