| 词组 | grapple |
| 释义 | grapple Grapple is usually used as an intransitive verb, and as such it is almost always used with with: • ... the architect has grappled with more problems than one need hope to see solved in any single church —Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, 1904 • ... the Administration will soon realize that it is grappling with fact, not theory —John Kenneth Gal-braith, The Reporter, 14 Apr. 1953 • ... the crisis of the American spirit grappling with its destiny —Robert Penn Warren, Democracy and Poetry, 1975 Very occasionally it is used with for, on, or over: • ... in her incessant grappling for affection —Frederic Morton, N.Y. Herald Tribune Book Rev., 31 Aug. 1952 I'll not be overanxious to venture my life In meddling with Death. What Death grapples on • Is better abandoned—Donagh MacDonagh, "Gravedigger," in New World Writing, 1954 • ... men sweating and grappling over state problems —Emily Taft Douglas, New Republic, 4 Oct. 1954 Modern transitive uses of grapple with to are echoes of one of Shakespeare's famous lines: • Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel—Hamlet, 1601 • ... Amy still jeered, being of those who obtain one idea at a time and grapple it to their souls with hoops of steel —Rose Macaulay, Told by an Idiot, 1923 • The once detested Mr. Carlyle was grappled to our souls with hoops of steel —Samuel Hopkins Adams, Grandfather Stories, 1955 • ... that America would grapple democracy to its citizens with hooks [sic] of steel —Times Literary Supp., 13 Nov. 1948 |
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