clench

英 [klentʃ]

美 [klentʃ]

v.  (通常表示愤怒、决心或不安时)捏紧，攥紧(拳头等)，咬紧(牙齿等); 握紧; 抓牢; 攥住

过去式：clenched　现在分词：clenching　过去分词：clenched　第三人称单数：clenches　复数：clenches　

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Collins.1 / BNC.8294 / COCA.8816

牛津词典

verb

• （通常表示愤怒、决心或不安时）捏紧，攥紧（拳头等），咬紧（牙齿等）
  when you clench your hands, teeth, etc., or when they clench , you press or squeeze them together tightly, usually showing that you are angry, determined or upset
  1. He clenched his fists in anger.
     他愤怒地攥紧了拳头。
  2. Through clenched teeth she told him to leave.
     她咬牙切齿地让他滚。
  3. His fists clenched slowly until his knuckles were white.
     他的拳头慢慢地捏紧，直捏得指关节都发白了。
• 握紧；抓牢；攥住
  to hold sth tightly and firmly
  1. Her pen was clenched between her teeth.
     她咬着笔。

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG 攥紧(拳头)；(拳头)紧握
  When youclenchyour fist or your fistclenches, you curl your fingers up tightly, usually because you are very angry.
  1. Alex clenched her fists and gritted her teeth...
     亚历克丝攥紧拳头，牙咬得咯咯响。
  2. She pulled at his sleeve and he turned on her, fists clenching again before he saw who it was.
     她拉了拉他的袖子，他双拳再次握紧，气冲冲地转过身来，这才发现是她。
  3. ...angry protestors with clenched fists.
     双拳紧握的愤怒的抗议者们
• VERB (通常指生气、不安时)咬紧(牙齿)，咬牙切齿
  When youclenchyour teeth or theyclench, you squeeze your teeth together firmly, usually because you are angry or upset.
  1. Patsy had to clench her jaw to suppress her anger...
     帕奇只得咬紧牙关压住怒气。
  2. Slowly, he released his breath through clenched teeth.
     他从紧咬的牙缝间慢慢地舒了口气。
• VERB 抓紧;握紧;咬紧
  If youclenchsomething in your hand or in your teeth, you hold it tightly with your hand or your teeth.
  1. I clenched the arms of my chair.
     我死死抓住椅子扶手。

英英释义

noun

• the act of grasping
  1. he released his clasp on my arm
  2. he has a strong grip for an old man
  3. she kept a firm hold on the railing
  Synonym:claspclutchclutchesgraspgriphold
• a small slip noose made with seizing
  Synonym:clinch

verb

• squeeze together tightly
  1. clench one's jaw
• hold in a tight grasp
  1. clench a steering wheel
  Synonym:clinch

双语例句

• I could see the muscles in his jaw clench.
  我看得出来他下巴的肌肉绷紧了。
• Alex clenched her fists and gritted her teeth
  亚历克丝攥紧拳头，牙咬得咯咯响。
• So the next time youre faced with a choice that takes self-control, clench your fist or firm that bicep. Your will might firm up, too.
  因此当你下次面临和自制力有关的抉择时，握紧你的拳头，又或者是绷紧你的二头肌，你的意志力也会随你的肌肉坚实起来呢！
• Both techniques were able to see the brain acting to clench a volunteer's fist in his dream in exactly the way that it does when ordering fist-clenching in reality.
  这两种技术都能看到志愿者在梦中握拳的方式和在现实中是一样的。
• I swing an open fist, clench, and feel the tickle of confirmation in my palm-my first catch.
  我伸手一捞，捏住拳头，手里的确有东西在搔痒&我的第一个战利品。
• I thought I heard his teeth clench together.
  我想我听到了他牙齿紧咬在一起的声音。
• The doctor told him to relax and not to clench his hands like that.
  医生告诉他放松自己，别像那样握紧拳头。
• The young eagle's compassion for the old wolf is gone, and he feels his enraged blood surge within till it flows to his sharp, iron-like claws that clench the rock so tightly that it creaks.
  愤怒的血液流贯全身，直通到他那像生铁铸成的一双利爪上，抓得岩石也在嘎嘎地作响。
• Possesses all function of thin metaller fabricates including shear, fold, clench, join, catch etc.
  薄钣金制作的剪、折、咬、接、合应有尽有；
• This one system and system of relations of production always are not "clench the teeth", both has" revolution "relation, but be in" rotation ".
  这一系统与生产关系系统并不总是“啮合”的，二者有“公转”关系，但都在“自转”。