Grapple的意思|Grapple的解释-里氏词典

Grapple \Grap"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grappled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Grappling}.] [F. grappiller, OF. graypil the grapple of a
ship, fr. graper to pluck, prop., to seize, clutch; of German
origin. See {Grape}.]
1. To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close
quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.

2. To fasten, as with a grapple; to fix; to join
indissolubly.

The gallies were grappled to the Centurion.
--Hakluyt.

Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
--Shak.

Grapple \Grap"ple\, v. i.
To use a grapple; to contend in close fight; to attach one's
self as if by a grapple, as in wrestling; to close; to seize
one another.

{To grapple with}, to enter into contest with, resolutely and
courageously.

And in my standard bear the arms of York,
To grapple with the house of Lancaster. --Shak.

Grapple \Grap"ple\, n. [See Grapple, v. t., and cf. Crapple.]
1. A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's
hold. --Milton.

2.
(a) An instrument, usually with hinged claws, for seizing
and holding fast to an object; a grab.
(b) (Naut.) A grappling iron.

The iron hooks and grapples keen. --Spenser.

{Grapple plant} (Bot.), a South African herb ({Herpagophytum
leptocarpum}) having the woody fruits armed with long
hooked or barbed thorns by which they adhere to cattle,
causing intense annoyance.

{Grapple shot} (Life-saving Service), a projectile, to which
are attached hinged claws to catch in a ship's rigging or
to hold in the ground; -- called also {anchor shot}.

Communist officials under pressure to resolve the country's rising economic and political turmoil said Wednesday that a party conference will grapple next week with changes in national leadership.
Douglas Madison, a corporate trader with Bank of America, commented that cross-dealing has increasingly taken center stage as investors grapple with the dollar's next move.
OPEC oil ministers began arriving Friday for their regular mid-year gathering, prepared to grapple again with their biggest problem: how to deal with the world oil glut.
Applicants must grapple with just 99 questions, down from 133 in 1990.
The unprecedented ruling comes as lawmakers grapple with bills that Gainer estimates will be $170 million by the June 30 end of the fiscal year.
Thus its management must continually grapple with broader social issues, the stickiest of which is how to control political petitioning and other activities unrelated to shopping.
(But) putting things up for public debate usually clears things up and gets issues out front." Meanwhile, communities near Rocky Flats are trying to grapple with the dilemma of depending on jobs while fearing the hazards.
THE loss of six board directors in as many days, the announcement of a ADollars 256.8m bottom-line loss, and the need to grapple with more than ADollars 1bn worth of balance sheet debt, might seem like a severe headache for anyone.
Sometimes, as the top team directs all its attention to the minions below, it does not even recognise that it has a problem itself. In the past three weeks I have attended two discussion dinners of top managers trying to grapple with change.
The pawn in all of this is, of course, the infant, andthe film makes that point in one poignant scene as Rick and a sheriff's deputy grapple for the child as the camera captures her terrified expression.
The ministers hadn't been expected to grapple with their official quotas and minimum reference price until they held their full, regular midyear conference on June 25.
The Supreme Soviet on Thursday confirmed the first Cabinet member who is not a member of the Communist Party, a biologist who will grapple with the country's ecological problems.
'There is not prospect for lower interest rates until they cut the deficit.' Greece continues to grapple with a debilitating debt burden which it finances at high interest rates, thus further inflating its growing budget deficit.
As Mr. Bush might put it, he finally has to grapple with "the vision thing."
More recently, investors have had to grapple with worries about credit problems facing a diverse list of borrowers and lenders ranging from developer Donald Trump to the money-market mutual funds.
The issues the Banking Committee must grapple with this year surely aren't appetizing.
Furthermore, I have had to hire a business consultant to help me grapple with the government's expanding demands and ever-changing rules.
Polhill will have to grapple with guilt, said retired Air Force Col. Thomas E. Schaefer, one of the 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days in Iran.
Still unanswered as states grapple with these issues is who will pay the AIDS bill.
'It were like a dream.' I watched wrestlers grapple on sweaty mats in Manchester and gymnasts tape and talcum their hands in Newport.
"One of the big questions we always grapple with at our project meetings is, `What time is it?' meaning, do we think the moment is really ripe for some kind of clear statement by Congress," she said.
The government has had to grapple with a major rail strike, use police to break up two farm protests, and answer a steady stream of criticism from Walesa, believed to be mounting a campaign to take over the presidency from former Communist leader Gen.
"We have to grapple with that changed dynamic and how we market our product," he says.
Yet, her strong hands are clenched together, as if trying to grapple with some unseen force.
Poindexter read aloud portions of a previously classified transcript of a telephone conversation last November with Mr. Casey as the administration sought to grapple with the brewing scandal.
But as courts begin to grapple with sick-building cases, they will face a myriad of complex medical, scientific and legal issues.
Like several of its former Soviet neighbours, the tiny Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan has had to grapple with nationalist tension and ethnic rivalries.
In the end, no one can say for sure what will happen between Germans and Jews, but one German sees the end of the Cold War as a great opportunity to grapple with the past as never before.
HMO REGULATION gets tougher as states grapple with health-plan red ink.
If the city wants disturbance, don't feed people." Turkish Olympic weightlifting champion Naim Suleymanoglu said Thursday he wants to grapple with the world of politics.

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