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 clung [klʌŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
cling的过去式和过去分词

  1. He clung to my arm.
    他紧抓着我的胳膊。
  2. She clung to the hope that her son was not dead.
    她坚信她儿子还活着。
  3. The wet clothes clung to his body.
    湿衣服紧贴在他身上。



Clung \Clung\,
imp. & p. p. of {Cling}.


Clung \Clung\, a. [Prop. p. p. fr. OE. clingen to wither. See
{Cling}, v. i.]
Wasted away; shrunken. [Obs.]


Cling \Cling\ (kl[i^]ng), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Clung}
(kl[u^]ng), {Clong} (kl[o^]ng), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Clinging}.] [AS. clingan to adhere, to wither; akin to Dan.
klynge to cluster, crowd. Cf. {Clump}.]
To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by
twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings
to its support; -- usually followed by to or together.

And what hath life for thee
That thou shouldst cling to it thus? --Mrs. Hemans.

  1. Against major European currencies, the dollar clung to a relatively modest gain but showed no sign of streaking skyward.
  2. Two women were rescued from the brink of Horseshoe Falls after they jumped from their boat and clung to rocks until workers rescued them.
  3. But he has clung to the image of an academician. Tall, gray-haired and tweed-clothed, he seems able to lecture his colleagues on an infinite range of topics.
  4. The four were in the water about 35 minutes before they were rescued, and clung to life up to nine hours after the accident, officials said.
  5. Too often they think we have clung to putting their tax money into programmes year after year, whether they work or not.
  6. Through the years, Mrs. Dumas clung to the hope the youngest of her seven children had not been killed, and she said on her deathbed in 1959: "He's alive."
  7. Watson said that shortly after the yacht sank, probably after being struck by a large wave, four people clung to a door of the boat, then disappeared.
  8. Eventually, they came to account for over half the shaving market's turnover, compared with about one-fifth at the start of the decade. Gillette clung to a leading position in the disposables market, but its margins were squeezed.
  9. But he has clung to power despite U.S. economic sanctions that have paralyzed the Panamanian economy.
  10. Hundreds clung to a wire fence separating them from the motorcade, while the more agile scurried to keep up with the glassed-enclosed popemobile.
  11. There is a precedent: Democrats have the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the generation of isolationist Republicans who earlier in this century clung too long to a pinched view of American interests and capabilities.
  12. He said another diver who viewed the tape said it showed the shark "waggling back and forth, like they do in the movies" as it clung to his arm.
  13. At the airport early Sunday, family members clung to each other for support as an orange forklift unloaded the coffins four at a time.
  14. Cross was jailed but was released on bond four months later as the child clung to life.
  15. Though she defied the odds to save the wounded and held the hands of the dying who clung to her, alone and frightened, no trumpets sounded for her or the 10,000 other women who served in Vietnam, eight of whom gave their lives.
  16. He clung to the wheel post with one hand to keep from falling over.
  17. "Managers clung too long to the idea that they could clean things up right away," says Russ Crabs, an analyst at SoundView Financial Group, Stamford, Conn.
  18. At Lismore, in the north of New South Wales state, a man was rescued by police early Thursday after he was swept away by floodwaters and clung to a tree for two hours.
  19. The infant, Christopher Stuart, was delivered by Caesarean section and clung to life for more than two weeks before succumbing to a respiratory ailment Thursday.
  20. A motorist stopped at a car wash early today to wash off blood from a pedestrian he struck, and found that the victim's body had clung to the vehicle, a sheriff's official said.
  21. "This is significant in the sense that we will renounce the fiction we clung to before that we represent the whole of China," says Chi Su, deputy director of the Institute of International Relations, Taiwan's main China-watching institution.
  22. Much of the foreign stock debate centers on German companies, which have staunchly clung to their six-month reporting standard and which are perceived by the Big Board as crucial to its battle to bolster listings.
  23. Passengers aboard a USAir jet that crashed into the East River said they were surprised when they landed in the water after sliding down chutes from the plane, and clung to driftwood until being rescued.
  24. Having clung to the idea of regional units for so long, though, it has lost ground against the best of the competition.
  25. The stock market clung to a small gain today as some recently-depressed technology issues steadied.
  26. The Israeli prime minister, who plans to visit Washington this month, clung stubbornly to most of his previous positions during the half-hour interview.
  27. Mrs. Moore, 88, asked for the doll and clung to it as she was hoisted in her wheelchair into a waiting van.
  28. Any shred of justification that some might have clung to has now been stripped away. Whether or not yesterday's initiative leads to a cessation of hostilities, the two prime ministers fully deserve the praise that has been heaped upon them.
  29. They likened him to Mao as a leader who clung hungrily to power long after his mandate was lost.
  30. Incumbent President Joaquin Balaguer clung to a razor-thin lead Saturday with most ballots counted in a presidential race disputed by his main leftist opponent.
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