clenched

英 [klentʃt] 美 [klentʃt]

v.  (通常表示愤怒、决心或不安时)捏紧,攥紧(拳头等),咬紧(牙齿等); 握紧; 抓牢; 攥住
clench的过去分词和过去式

过去分词:clenched过去式:clenched

BNC.15399 / COCA.16614



柯林斯词典

  1. V-ERG 攥紧(拳头);(拳头)紧握
    When you clench your fist or your fist clenches, you curl your fingers up tightly, usually because you are very angry.
    1. Alex clenched her fists and gritted her teeth...
      亚历克丝攥紧拳头,牙咬得咯咯响。
    2. She pulled at his sleeve and he turned on her, fists clenching again before he saw who it was.
      她拉了拉他的袖子,他双拳再次握紧,气冲冲地转过身来,这才发现是她。
    3. ...angry protestors with clenched fists.
      双拳紧握的愤怒的抗议者们
  2. VERB (通常指生气、不安时)咬紧(牙齿),咬牙切齿
    When you clench your teeth or they clench, you squeeze your teeth together firmly, usually because you are angry or upset.
    1. Patsy had to clench her jaw to suppress her anger...
      帕奇只得咬紧牙关压住怒气。
    2. Slowly, he released his breath through clenched teeth.
      他从紧咬的牙缝间慢慢地舒了口气。
  3. VERB 抓紧;握紧;咬紧
    If you clench something in your hand or in your teeth, you hold it tightly with your hand or your teeth.
    1. I clenched the arms of my chair.
      我死死抓住椅子扶手。

双语例句

  1. Alex clenched her fists and gritted her teeth
    亚历克丝攥紧拳头,牙咬得咯咯响。
  2. Slowly, he released his breath through clenched teeth.
    他从紧咬的牙缝间慢慢地舒了口气。
  3. I clenched the arms of my chair.
    我死死抓住椅子扶手。
  4. Angry protestors with clenched fists shouted their defiance
    愤怒的抗议者们紧握拳头大声抗议。
  5. He hammered his two clenched fists on the table.
    他双拳紧握,重重地捶着桌子。
  6. The protesters burst through police lines into the cathedral square, shaking clenched fists.
    抗议者冲破警方封锁线来到教堂广场上,挥舞着愤怒的拳头。
  7. Each clenched his fists and set his jaw when the order came to arrest the secret agents.
    听说去抓特务,一个个都摩拳擦掌。
  8. Her hands clenched involuntarily.
    她本能地攥紧了拳头。
  9. She fought, with clenched teeth, desperately!
    她紧咬着牙绝望地反抗着!
  10. I clenched the steering wheel in frustration as I drove home.
    回家的路上,我紧握着方向盘,满心的沮丧和失落。
  11. My stomach seized up like a clenched fist, and nausea rolled into me like a fever.
    我的胃像捏紧的拳头一样胀了起来,恶心如发烧似的冲进了我的身躯。
  12. The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
    冷笑已从凯西唇间溜走,他的齿紧咬著恨意。
  13. The boy clenched his fists in anger.
    那男孩愤怒地握紧了拳头。
  14. Indira Gandhi: You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
    印第拉。甘地:你不能用紧握的拳头来握手。
  15. He clenched his fists.
    他紧握着拳头。
  16. His action is: raised left hand, and slowly more and more tight and clenched fists.
    老先生的动作是:举起左手,慢慢地而有越来越紧的握紧拳头。
  17. Nothing, If you clenched the hands, but everything open the hands!
    “把手握紧,一无所有;把手张开,就拥有了一切”。
  18. Their fists were clenched so tightly that their nails dug deep into their palms.
    他们紧握着拳头,指甲深深地捏进了手心。
  19. Had he not proposed to replace a clenched fist with an outstretched hand?
    如果奥巴马没有建议用伸出的手来代替紧握的拳头呢?
  20. He paced up and down the study in a frenzy, his eyes bloodshot and his teeth clenched.
    他疯狂地在书房里绕着圈子,眼睛全红了,咬着牙齿;
  21. He flourished his clenched fist at her.
    他对她挥舞握紧的拳头。
  22. The police wrested the knife from his clenched fist.
    警察从他紧握的拳头中把刀子强抢了过来。
  23. The shape of the coin was imprinted on his tightly clenched hand.
    在他紧握的手里印下了硬币的形状。
  24. Now he worked with clenched teeth, his lips pressed back above his beard.
    他咬紧了牙做着工作,胡须上面的嘴唇闭得紧紧的。
  25. The small boy cringed from the bully's clenched fist.
    那个小孩在恶霸紧握的拳头面前退缩了。
  26. Scarlett's nails dug into her palms as she clenched her fists.
    思嘉紧紧地握着拳头,几乎把指甲插到手心肉里去了。
  27. She clenched her fists because of the pain.
    因为疼痛,她握紧了拳头。
  28. Bertha clenched her hands, furious because the flush of shame would not leave her cheeks.
    伯莎握紧了双手,为那耻辱的红晕不肯从双颊上消退而躁怒。
  29. I moaned through clenched teeth.
    悲鸣从咬紧的牙缝中挤出。
  30. Rudolph frowned, opened and shut his big right hand, and dropped it clenched upon his knee.
    鲁道夫皱起了眉头,打开和关闭他的大右手,并放弃了它在他膝盖握紧。

英英释义

adj

  1. closed or squeezed together tightly
    1. a clenched fist
    2. his clenched (or clinched) teeth

    Synonym:    clinched