Wrest

(verb.) obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically; 'wrest the knife from his hands'; 'wrest a meaning from the old text'; 'wrest power from the old government'.

约西亚整理

• You can't wrest from me what I have not got. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Like Hor Vastus, he too dreaded the truth and would not be the one to wrest a statement from me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Thus the therns are used as the principal means for collecting the wealth and labour that the First Born wrest from them as they need it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• They drew and painted on the cliffs and cave walls that they had wrested from the Neanderthal men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The last blessing of humanity was wrested from us; we might no longer hope. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The brave boy's act of chivalrous self-sacrifice filled me with pride, nor did I care that it had wrested from us our last frail chance for escape. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• When I came here today, I thought that nothing could have wrested this confession from me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Spain also was wrested bit by bit from the Carthaginian grip. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Lee's army had to be strengthened to enable it to maintain its position, no matter what territory was wrested from the South in another quarter. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• If I succeed in wresting them from him, the object of your life and mine is fulfilled. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

哈利整理