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 powwow came just one week after a Kremlin meeting with Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian President, to discuss ways to combat the crisis that threatens to envelop the sector as it grapples with huge debts and plummeting revenues.
  仅仅一周之前，两人曾与俄总统德米特里梅德韦杰夫（dmitrymedvedev）会晤，讨论采取措施抗击可能笼罩金属业的危机，该行业目前正竭力应对巨额债务和营收的大幅下降。
• That is one of the difficult questions one grapples with in a Krishnamurti school.
  在克氏学校中，这是你需要与之纠缠的难题之一。
• A hundred years later, San Francisco still grapples with its past.
  一百年以后，旧金山仍旧在克服着过去的困难。
• US hedge funds and private equity firms specialising in distressed situations are gearing up new or existing European offices in expectation of a surge in opportunities as the region grapples with its sovereign debt crisis and sputtering growth.
  擅长从困境获利的美国对冲基金和私人股本公司，正在欧洲扩大现有办事处或者开设新办事处，准备迎接有望大量迸发的商机。当前，欧洲正在艰难应对主权债务危机和经济增长乏力。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• The Prime Minister voiced his concern as India grapples with a wave of terrorist, sectarian and religious violence that has killed hundreds of people across the country in recent months.
  辛格是在印度陷入恐怖分子、分裂活动和宗教暴力浪潮之中的时候说这番话的。最近几个月，印度全国已经有几百人因此丧生。
• 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。