wringing

英 [ˈrɪŋɪŋ]

美 [ˈrɪŋɪŋ]

v.  拧，绞，拧出，绞出(衣服等中的水); 扭(鸟的脖子，以将其杀死)
wring的现在分词

现在分词：wringing　

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COCA.44312

柯林斯词典

• VERB 强行取得;逼取
  If youwringsomethingout ofsomeone, you manage to make them give it to you even though they do not want to.
  1. Buyers use different ruses to wring free credit out of their suppliers...
     买主们千方百计想从供货商那儿无息赊购。
  2. In this way, he hoped to put pressure on the British and thus to wring concessions from them.
     他希望通过这种方式向英国人施压，从而迫使他们让步。
• PHRASE (通常因忧愁、焦虑而)绞扭双手（干叹息)
  If someonewringstheirhands, they hold them together and twist and turn them, usually because they are very worried or upset about something. You can also say that someone iswringingtheirhandswhen they are expressing sorrow that a situation is so bad but are saying that they are unable to change it.
  1. The Government has got to get a grip. Wringing its hands and saying it is a world problem just isn't good enough.
     政府必须采取切实行动，一味搓着手感叹说这是个全球性问题是远远不够的。
• PHRASE 扭断…的脖子(表示非常生某人的气)
  If you say that you willwringsomeone'sneckor that you would like towringtheirneck, you mean that you are very angry or irritated with them.
  1. That crazy Debbie! He could wring her neck for this!...
     黛比那个疯子！他会为这把她的脖子拧断的！
  2. I still love you even though I'd like to wring your neck.
     虽然我想掐死你，但我还是爱你的。

双语例句

• Sobbing and crying, and wringing her hands as if her heart would break ( Laurence Sterne).
  啜泣着并叫喊着，紧握着双手，她的心好象马上就会破碎似的（劳伦斯斯特恩）。
• The Government has got to get a grip. Wringing its hands and saying it is a world problem just isn't good enough.
  政府必须采取切实行动，一味搓着手感叹说这是个全球性问题是远远不够的。
• Try soaking a cloth or sock in long, wet grasses or plants and then wringing that water into the can.
  把布片或袜子浸在一片长而湿润的草地或植物上，再绞出吸收的水分倒进易拉罐里。
• The villagers, suffering a meager harvest and the many years of war, quickly hid what little they had to eat and met the three at the village square, wringing their hands and bemoaning the lack of anything to eat.
  然而由于粮食遭遇欠收和连年的战争，村民们迅速的将它们的一小点粮食藏了起来，并在村子的广场中接待了士兵们，搓着双手，哀叹着他们是多么缺少食物。
• After some time, we could see them, by the little Light there was, run about wringing their Hands like Men in Despair;
  又过了一会儿，我们从傍晚暗淡的光线下看见他们惶惶然地跑来跑去，双手扭来扭去，一副绝望的样子。
• His predecessor, Sandy Weill, built a financial-services juggernaut by snapping up companies on the cheap, wringing out the costs, then buying more.
  他的前任，桑迪•威尔（SandyWeill），不断通过以低价买入公司然后削减成本，从而建立了一个庞大的金融服务巨擘。
• As she went up the garden-path she heard her mother singing by the back door, coming in sight of which she perceived Mrs Durbeyfield on the doorstep in the act of wringing a sheet.
  在她走进花园小径的时候，她听见了她的母亲在后门边唱歌，接着就看见德北菲尔德太太站在门口，正在拧一床刚洗的床单。
• He was wringing wet after working in the field in the hot sun.
  烈日下在田里干活使他汗流满面。
• Car dealers are wringing their hands over low sates this summer.
  汽车销售商们正为今夏的低销售量而苦恼地拧手顿脚。
• He is wringing out the water from his swimming trunks.
  他正在把游泳裤中的水绞出来。