- 1扭打；揪住對方近身搏鬥
When two people grapple, they do not stand back and hit. They catch hold of each other — arms, clothes, bodies — and struggle close together, each trying to throw the other down or stop the other from moving. It is messy, holding-on fighting, more like a wild wrestle than a boxing match. Police, soldiers, and sports such as wrestling, , and mixed martial arts use the word in a fairly exact way; younger people often meet it there. In ordinary talk you hear it when a fight spills onto the floor and people are rolling and .
People stretch it. Writers often say someone is grappling with a problem, a feeling, or a hard choice. Nobody is being held. The picture is the same: you cannot step away; you are locked in with it. That use is common in books and news, and a little more formal than “deal with”. There is also a grappling hook — a tool with claws for catching and holding. The thread through all of this is “seize and not let go”.
組成From Middle English grapplen, “to seize”, from Old English. On the surface it is grab + -le: the little ending -le often means “do it again and again, in a busy way” (as in sparkle). Scholars trace it to an old root meaning “to take, seize, rake”, the same deep family as grab and grasp. Some senses were later coloured by the noun grapple, the hooked tool.
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
grappleverb詞源 1/ˈɡɹæpəl/
- 1
To seize something and hold it firmly.
- 2
To wrestle or tussle.
- 3
To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with.
- to grapple with one's conscience
- Class 4 2-6-4T No. 42098 grapples with the 1 in 63 to Troutbeck at the head of the "Lakes Express".
grapplenoun詞源 1/ˈɡɹæpəl/
- 1
A close hand-to-hand struggle.
- 2
The act of grappling. (uncountable)
grapplenoun詞源 2/ˈɡɹæpəl/
- 1
nauticaltransportA tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something.
- 2
nauticaltransportA tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something.
grappleverb詞源 2/ˈɡɹæpəl/
- 1
To fasten, as with a grapple; (by extension) to fix; to join indissolubly.
- The gallies were grapled to the Centurion.
- Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
- 2
To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).
- Sam quickly geared up and placed the first hook. “I am coming as well,” Alicia announced. […] Sam planted the anchor and then grappled down as Alicia struggled to move more than a foot or shift down.
- In cases such as this, the Silencer usually grappled up the outside of the building. But Rumpus' tower was sixty storeys tall […]
- 3
To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable).
- The following days I spent patrolling the river and grappling for nets. On Wednesday , 18th July , left Gananoque at 7 a.m.; patrolled down to Rockport, […]
- After returning from the cable factory with another load of cable and repeaters, the buoy will be recovered or the rope grappled for. When the previous section is aboard the ship, transmission tests are made […]
- 4
To hook and raise with a grapple.
- The place where the cable got jammed and broken at the bottom was two or three miles from where I grappled up the cable the first time. I do not, of course, know for certain whether rocks with crevices exist.
- [page 11:] Weston had just grappled the net, when we saw the light corning up the lake. [page 15:] A. About an hour and a half after dark with Weston I rowed across to this point where the net was set, and he, with a grappling hook, grappled up the net.
grapplenoun詞源 3/ˈɡɹæpəl/
- 1
businessmarketingA combination of grape and apple flavors.
- Lady Cheron looks at the cupboards. Both apple butter and apple jelly, as well as "grapple" (grape-apple) jelly are sitting in little mason jars on the top shelf.
- Bradley’s mother prefers grapple juice that is 25 percent grape and 75 percent apple.
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