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

• 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。
• 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。
• Each of the technology companies is taking a slightly different approach with their new services, as the music industry grapples with a slowdown in sales of digital downloads, on top of the plummeting CD market.
  每家科技公司的新服务都将采取略有不同的方式，因为除了直线下挫的cd市场，音乐业还在努力应付数字下载销售的放缓。
• As Europe grapples with glacial growth and cavernous deficits, Asian states have rather different problems.
  在欧洲艰难应对缓慢增长和巨额赤字之际，亚洲国家面对着截然不同的问题。
• 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。
• This is where computer science grapples with the practical problems of daily life.
  系统科学与理论学就是运用计算机技术去解决日常生活中的一些现实问题。
• The ministry's guidelines, issued in a circular, come as China grapples with frequent choking smog in its big cities, a consequence of years of breakneck economic growth that has fuelled public anger.
  中国环保部门在公告里发布了这些指导方针，而此时中国的大城市正在与令人窒息的持续雾霾天气作斗争这也是多年经济飞速发展的后果，这样的现状让公众们感到愤怒。
• 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。
• Around the world he has become the familiar face of Japan, calm and confident as his nation grapples with its most serious crisis since the end of World War II.
  据路透社报道，在日本倾举国之力应对二战以来该国经历的最严重的灾难之际，冷静且自信的枝野幸男成为全世界所熟知的一张日本面孔。
• 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。