wrenching

1. VERB 猛拉;猛拧;猛拽
   If you wrench something that is fixed in a particular position, you pull or twist it violently, in order to move or remove it.
   1. He felt two men wrench the suitcase from his hand...
      他感觉有两个人在使劲拽他手里的手提箱。
   2. He wrenched off his sneakers...
      他使劲儿脱下运动鞋。
   3. They wrenched open the passenger doors and jumped into her car.
      他们使劲拽开后座车门，跳进了她的车子。
2. VERB 挣脱;挣开
   If you wrench yourself free from someone who is holding you, you get away from them by suddenly twisting the part of your body that is being held.
   1. She wrenched herself from his grasp...
      她从他手里挣脱开来。
   2. He wrenched his arm free...
      他把手臂挣脱开来。
   3. She tore at one man's face as she tried to wrench free...
      她试图挣脱时朝一个男子的脸上抓去。
   4. I wrenched my hand away from my attacker.
      我用力把手从袭击者手里挣脱出来。
3. VERB 扭伤(关节)
   If you wrench one of your joints, you twist it and injure it.
   1. He had wrenched his ankle badly from the force of the fall.
      他因摔倒而严重扭伤了脚踝。
4. N-SING (离别时的)痛苦，愁楚
   If you say that leaving someone or something is a wrench, you feel very sad about it.
   1. I always knew it would be a wrench to leave Essex after all these years...
      我一直心里清楚过了这么多年后离开埃塞克斯会非常痛苦。
   2. Many of the things are of great sentimental value and it is going to be a wrench parting with them...
      其中很多东西都具有重要的情感价值，令人难以割舍。
   3. Although it would be a wrench, we would all accept the challenge of moving abroad.
      虽然移居海外会很痛苦，但我们都愿意接受这个挑战。
5. 扳钳；活动扳手
   A wrench or a monkey wrench is an adjustable metal tool used for tightening or loosening metal nuts of different sizes.
6. PHRASE 作梗;阻挠
   If someone throws a wrench or throws a monkey wrench into a process, they prevent something happening smoothly by deliberately causing a problem.
   1. Their delegation threw a giant monkey wrench into the process this week by raising all sorts of petty objections.
      他们的代表团本周提出了各种细枝末节的反对意见，极在地阻挠了进程。

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 throw a spanner in the works

1. Going to court can be an expensive, time consuming and gut wrenching experience that is best avoided.
   打官司费钱耗时而且给人添堵，所以最好能避则避。
2. Wrenching open the back door, Harry hurtled into their midst.
   哈利打开后门，一下子蹿到他们中间。
3. But it is becoming clear that the transformation, if plausible, will be wrenching.
   但人们越来越清楚地看到，这种转型即便可行，也会是一个痛苦的过程。
4. Known as the sick man of Europe ten years ago, Germany underwent a set of wrenching labour-market reforms starting in 2003.
   正如十年前被全欧洲所知的风险家，德国自2003年开始经历了一系列复杂的劳动力市场改革。
5. Either way, China faces a wrenching economic adjustment.
   无论是哪种方式，中国将面临痛苦的经济调整。
6. Though Mr. Mandela had stepped down from the presidency in 1999, he remained a father figure for a country going through wrenching economic and political change.
   尽管曼德拉1999年卸任总统之职，但在经历了艰难的经济和政治变革的南非，他仍是一个国父般的人物。
7. He said that what he called "the wrenching and emotional issues of the future of Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees" still wait to be resolved.
   He说，他所谓的“耶路撒冷的未来和巴勒斯坦难民的命运和情感的痛苦的问题”仍然等待被解决。
8. That experience, never fun, is far less wrenching in a city than in a one-horse town.
   这种经历尽管从来都不是乐趣，但在城市，它所带来的痛苦比偏僻的小镇要少得多。
9. But the threat of a wrenching slowdown is becoming worryingly plausible.
   然而同时关于一个猛然经济减缓的威胁的担忧是不无道理的。
10. We should not be embarrassed or dismayed if the process of unifying is difficult, even at times wrenching.
    如果统一的进程十分困难，有时甚至很痛苦，对此我们不应该感到难堪或惊讶。
11. The Easter weekend provides an opportunity to reflect again on these wrenching topics, on what is important to us and what really matters.
    今年的复活节为我们提供了一个再次思考这些令人纠结的问题的机会。利用这个机会，我们还可以想想，哪些东西对我们有着重要的意义，而哪些又是真正重要的。
12. Given the wrenching competitive challenges and structural adjustments they are undergoing, that is not surprising.
    考虑到他们经历的严峻的竞争挑战和结构调整，这一点并不令人惊讶。
13. On one level Brandt's wrenching decision to recognize the division of Germany was a courageous recognition of reality.
    从某种意义上说，勃兰特忍痛做出承认德国分治的决定，这是一种勇于正视现实的行为。
14. However, with the trade deficit in the US and other countries shrinking, some economists fear China could yet face a wrenching adjustment in its external accounts.
    不过，随着美国和其它国家的贸易逆差缩小，一些经济学家担心，中国仍可能面对一次外部账户的痛苦调整。
15. Egypt now faces wrenching changes.
    埃及目前正在经历剧烈的变革。
16. China has been through a wrenching series of changes and experiments.
    中国经历了一系列艰苦的变革和试验。
17. The wrenching debate over the Iraq war is well-known and need not be repeated here.
    有关伊拉克战争的痛苦争议尽人皆知，我就不在这里重复了。
18. To cause a painful cramp or muscle spasm in by turning or wrenching.
    因扭转或猛扭而引起剧痛的肌肉痉挛。
19. They can surely point to the dangers of the times a crisis that Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, calls "the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War" and the role ofbear Stearns in these fragile markets.
    他们肯定可以提到当前的风险美联储前主席艾伦格林斯潘（alangreenspan）称之为“自二战结束以来最严重的危机”以及贝尔斯登在这些脆弱的市场中扮演的角色。
20. It is easy to be jealous of those who go through life without a moment of wrenching guilt.
    有些人一辈子不曾揪心地内疚过，羡慕他们倒很容易。
21. We need help, these wrenching films say, when we can no longer help ourselves.
    “我们需要帮助”，这些沉重的电影道出了这个主题，“当我们不再能够自救的时候”。
22. And the wrenching experience of the 2008 crash has overlaid client concerns about trust and increased demands for transparency.
    此外，2008年崩盘的惨痛经历，让客户对信任深感担忧，也增强了对透明度的需求。
23. And in the days since December, I have read, with immense pain, the wrenching stories of people whose life savings have evaporated because of his crime.
    自去年12月以来的那些日子里，我看到了很多令人揪心的故事，很多人一生的积蓄因他的欺诈罪行而被蒸发。
24. "2046" is awash in such wrenching and charming tears.
    “2046”是与水面齐平的在如此的猛扭和迷人的泪滴中。
25. The most striking statement at Michael Jackson's memorial service was not his daughter Paris'tremulous and wrenching goodbye.
    麦克-杰克逊的追思会上，最引人注目的一句话，不是他女儿帕里斯全身颤抖，痛苦说出的永别；
26. It will be the latest in a line of wrenching moments of retreat.
    这将是一系列痛苦的撤退时刻中最新的一个。
27. This novels is gut wrenching story about slavery before Civil War.
    这部小说写的是一个有关南北战争前的奴隶们的令人断肠的故事。
28. Such declarations, as Francis Fukuyama discovered, tend to be made on the eve of wrenching change.
    弗朗西斯福山（francisfukuyama）发现，这种宣言通常都是在剧变出现前夕作出的。
29. In the end, wrenching themselves free from the hands of death, the expedition walked out of the desert tenaciously.
    终于，探险队顽强地走出了沙漠，挣脱了死神之手。
30. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame.
    当你谈论自己的经历时，你也许感到了无比痛苦、悲哀、愤怒或羞愧。

adj

1. causing great physical or mental suffering
   1. a wrenching pain

   Synonym:    racking