grapples

英 [ˈɡræplz]

美 [ˈɡræplz]

v.  扭打; 搏斗; 努力设法解决
grapple的第三人称单数

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

• The preacher grapples with his text, wasting on effort in wooing the audience.
  传教士紧紧抓住经文，尽力说服听众。
• At the moment, we are facing tremendous challenges as our economy grapples with restructuring.
  目前，我们正面临经济转型的重大挑战。
• She grapples with typical teenage dilemmas, but these seemingly imperative issues are quickly forgotten when an accident kills her and her family.
  她陷入了典型的成长的烦恼，但是当一场车祸杀死了她和她的家人那些看似重要的事情很快被遗忘。
• President Obama is considering opening up the nation's strategic oil reserve as the administration grapples with how to deal with rapidly rising gas prices.
  奥巴马考虑释放部分国家战略石油储备来应对快速提高的汽油价格。
• The eyes of the world are on him as he grapples with the real-life, not theoretical, dilemma of how to respond to financial market turmoil.
  全世界的目光都集中在他身上，看他如何处理金融市场动荡这一现实生活中（而非理论上）的难题。
• The damaging portrayal of British youth makes unwelcome reading for the government of Tony Blair, prime minister, as it grapples with contentious policies on teenage pregnancy, binge drinking and antisocial behaviour.
  这种有损于英国青年形象的描述，对英国首相托尼•布莱尔（TonyBlair）的政府来说可不是好消息，这届政府在未成年人怀孕、酗酒和反社会行为等有争议的政策上伤透了脑筋。
• While Japan grapples with all of these headaches, soccer has emerged as the unlikely bright spot, triggered by the men's surprising run last summer at the World Cup in South Africa.
  Reuters球迷在东京庆祝胜利。虽然日本还在努力解决所有这些令人头痛的问题，但日本女足却成为人们意料之外的亮点。这或许是受了去年夏天日本男足在南非世界杯上的惊人表现的推动。
• More destabilising disagreements on the Council are near-inevitable as the ECB grapples with the enormous monetary challenges of austerity, along with rising debt among Southern euro members and export-led growth among northern creditor states.
  随着欧洲央行艰难处理财政紧缩带来的巨大货币政策挑战，同时还有欧元区南部国家日益加重的债务负担以及北部债权国出口带动的经济增长，在委员会中产生更多破坏稳定的分歧几乎不可避免。
• As China grapples with power shortages ahead of the summer peak consumption season, electricity demand is expected to grow even further.
  尽管中国在夏季用电高峰期前就开始努力对付电力短缺问题，但是用电需求预计增加更多。
• As it stares down threats from Hollywood, Amazon. com, and grapples with Internet distribution problems, the question is can they be the defining digital media company or not?
  当这家公司正在跟来自好莱坞、亚马逊的威胁针锋相对，努力解决互联网分销问题的时候，一个疑问是，它能否成为一家起决定性作用的数字媒体公司？