grappled

英 [ˈɡræpld]

美 [ˈɡræpld]

v.  扭打; 搏斗; 努力设法解决
grapple的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 努力解决（问题）；设法克服（困难）
  If yougrapple witha problem or difficulty, you try hard to solve it.
  1. The economy is just one of several critical problems the country is grappling with.
     经济问题只是该国正竭力解决的几个关键问题之一。
• V-RECIP 扭打;搏斗
  If yougrapple withsomeone, you take hold of them and struggle with them, as part of a fight. You can also say that two peoplegrapple.
  1. He was grappling with an alligator in a lagoon...
     他正在环礁湖里与一只短吻鳄搏斗。
  2. They grappled desperately for control of the weapon.
     他们疯狂扭打，想把武器抢到手。

双语例句

• Having grappled with the crisis and overcome many of the economic vulnerabilities that led to it, East Asia is fast becoming a middle income region.
  东亚经过与危机作斗争，克服了导致危机的许多经济脆弱性之后，正在迅速成为一个中等收入地区。
• But towards the end of the decade the meetings lost this momentum as G8 leaders grappled with the financial crisis threatening all development strategies and the challenge of climate change.
  但是在这10年的末尾，随着西方8国领导人应对威胁着所有发展策略的金融危机以及气候变化的挑战，这些峰会失去了这种动力。
• Some of these questions we have grappled with; at others we have done little more than glance.
  这些问题中的有一些我们努力探究过了；在其他的我们不比匆匆扫视做得更多。
• I grappled with this paradox for several years by withdrawing from anything that might lead other people.
  我与这个悖论搏斗多年，逃避任何可能领导其他人的机会。
• The two grappled with each other.
  两人扭在一起。
• His mind has grappled with space and time, and explored the strange beauty of black holes aglow, but in recent days a more earthly problem has occupied the world's most famous scientist.
  他的思想已经掌握了空间和时间，并探索过黑洞发出红光的奇怪美景，但最近几天一个更加实际的问题已经使这位世界上最著名科学家忙碌起来。
• They grappled desperately for control of the weapon.
  他们疯狂扭打，想把武器抢到手。
• At this meeting we grappled with the most important, strategic issues in our economic relationship.
  在本次会议期间，我们重点讨论了两国经济关系中最重要的战略问题。
• Then, individual studios grappled with rival technologies in the hope that one would become dominant in home entertainment.
  当时，面对互相竞争的技术，各电影公司苦苦挣扎，希望其中一种会在家庭娱乐领域占据统治地位。
• I grappled with this moral dilemma.
  我拼命想摆脱这一道德上进退两难的困境。