Wrestle

(noun.) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat; 'they had a fierce wrestle'; 'we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully'.

(verb.) engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate; 'I wrestled with this decision for years'.

(verb.) combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force; 'He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority'.

(verb.) engage in a wrestling match; 'The children wrestled in the garden'.

杰夫编辑

• After a moment's wrestle with him, Flintwinch gave up, and put his hands in his pockets. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• In her soul she began to wrestle, and she was frightened. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• One ought to wrestle and strive and be physically close. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Mr. Micawber kissed her hand, retired to the window, and pulling out his pocket-handkerchief, had a mental wrestle with himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He could have settled her with a well-planted blow; but he would not strike: he would only wrestle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives; but many hard and miserable hours must you endure, until that period shall arrive. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• To advance along smooth and pleasant paths, to encounter no obstacles, to wrestle with no difficulties and hardships--such has absolutely no fascination to him. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• St. Clare could say but little; he lay with his eyes shut, but it was evident that he wrestled with bitter thoughts. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Truly, I was mad that night-- love--which I have named a giant from its birth, wrestled with despair! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Till break of day she wrestled with God in earnest prayer. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was weeks and months that Tom wrestled, in his own soul, in darkness and sorrow. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it is secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled for great prizes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• So the two men entwined and wrestled with each other, working nearer and nearer. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Running, wrestling, cudgel-playing, throwing the javelin, drawing the bow, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The real activity was this ghastly wrestling for death in his own soul. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• As he was fast making jam of his fruit by wrestling with the door while the paper-bags were under his arms, I begged him to allow me to hold them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• What might have been, for anything I knew, a silence of days, weeks, months, years, was broken by a violent wrestling of men all over the room. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Only by wrestling with the conditions of the problem at first hand, seeking and finding his own way out, does he think. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The back door was open, and as he came to the foot of the stairs he saw two men wrestling together outside. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.

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