wrest
n. 扭, 拧 vt. 夺取, 猛扭, 歪曲, 费力取得
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释义与例句
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1.
The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
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2.
Active or motive power.
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Ellipsis of saw wrest (“a hand tool for setting the teeth of a saw, determining the width of the kerf”); a saw set.
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A key to tune a stringed instrument.
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A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
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A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.
过时 方言 植物学 商务
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To pull or twist violently.
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To obtain by pulling or violent force.
及物He wrested the remote control from my grasp and changed the channel.
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To seize.
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To distort, to pervert, to twist.
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To tune with a wrest, or key.
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词源
From Middle English wresten, wrasten, wræsten, from Old English wrǣstan (“to twist forcibly, wrench”), from Proto-Germanic *wraistijaną, (compare Proto-Germanic *wrīhaną (“to turn, wind; to cover, envelop”), *wrīþaną (“to weave, twist”), Old Norse reista (“to bend, twist”)), from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wreiḱ-, *wreyḱ- (“to bend, twist”), *wreyt- (“to bend”). See also writhe, wry. The noun is derived from the verb.
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