tussles

英 [ˈtʌslz]

美 [ˈtʌslz]

n.  扭打，争斗，争执(尤指为了争得物品)
v.  扭打，争斗(尤指为了争夺物品)
tussle的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• V-RECIP 扭打;厮打
  If one persontussles withanother, or if theytussle, they get hold of each other and struggle or fight.
  1. They ended up ripping down perimeter fencing and tussling with the security staff...
     最终他们拆毁了四周的围栏，与保安人员厮打起来。
  2. He grabbed my microphone and we tussled over that...
     他抓住我的麦克风，我们为此扭打起来。
  3. James and Elliott tussled.
     詹姆斯和埃利奥特扭打成一团。
  4. Tussleis also a noun.
     
  5. The referee booked him for a tussle with the goalie.
     他和守门员拉扯，因而被裁判记名警告。
• V-RECIP 争夺;争抢;争斗
  If one persontussles withanother for something, or if theytusslefor it, they try to beat each other in order to get it.
  1. Pezzo tussled for fourth place with Orvosova...
     佩佐和奥尔沃索瓦为争夺第四名展开了激烈较量。
  2. Officials tussled over who had responsibility for the newly fashionable unemployment agenda.
     众官员为谁负责最近备受关注的失业议题一事争得不可开交。
  3. Tussleis also a noun.
     
  4. ...a legal tussle over who gets custody of the children.
     关于争夺孩子抚养权的法律纠纷
• VERB 全力应对;竭力解决
  If someonetussles witha difficult problem or issue, they try hard to solve it.
  1. He is tussling with the problem of what to do about inflation.
     他正全力应对如何解决通货膨胀的问题。

双语例句

• China announced yesterday it will impose a second round of tariffs on imports of US chicken products of as much as 31.4 per cent, raising the temperature in the ongoing trade tussles between the two countries.
  中国昨日宣布将对从美国进口的肉鸡产品开征第二轮关税，税率最高达31.4%，此举导致两国之间的持续贸易角力升温。
• Ministers meeting at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva announced that they had updated the government procurement agreement ( GPA), a pact between 42 member countries, overcoming last-minute tussles between the EU and Japan.
  在日内瓦参加世界贸易组织（WTO）会议的各国贸易部长们宣布，在最后一刻克服了欧盟（EU）与日本之间的分歧后，他们修订了42个成员国之间的政府采购协议（GPA）。
• Similar tussles are playing out within governments across the region as they grapple with their protectionist instincts amid a pronounced slump in trade.
  整个亚太地区各国政府内部，都在上演类似的角力，在贸易额显著下滑之际，它们都在努力克制着自己的保护主义本能。
• Mr Iacocca's eponymous memoir ends, after fierce tussles with critics who tried to stymie federal loan guarantees, with Chrysler put back on its feet by the US taxpayer.
  艾柯卡那部以他自己名字命名的回忆录以这样的事实收尾：在与试图阻止提供联邦贷款担保的批评人士进行激烈斗争后，克莱斯勒凭借美国纳税人的钱起死回生。
• But what's different today is that the tussles as well as the triumphs increasingly involve India – the emerging Asian power whose economic clout in Latin America could soon rival China's.
  但是当下不同的是，无论是贸易纠纷还是合作成功都日益偏向印度&这个亚洲新兴大国，其在拉美地区的势力可能不久将与中国势均力敌。
• The legal tussles usually end in cross-licensing deals, in which small sums of money change hands.
  这些合法争斗也大都以相互授权作为结束，期间只转手少量的钱。
• Fans of less mainstream sports could find synchronised swimming on Oxygen, or segue from the usual verbal tussles on MSNBC to other forms of wrestling.
  不那么主流运动的爱好者可以通过Oxygen频道收看花样游泳比赛，或从MSNBC频道常见的口舌之争转到其它形式的摔跤比赛。
• Both companies are involved in several tit-for-tat legal tussles over patent rights.
  两家公司都卷入了几次对专利权利的针锋相对的法律角力。
• Chinese martial arts film always implied the rooted Chinese cultural ethic which supported the whole spirit frame of a martial arts kingdom in its performing tussles and twisting story narration.
  中国武侠电影在它极具表演性的武术对打和曲折逶婉故事情节中，隐含一种根深蒂固的、中国式的文化伦理，它是支撑整个武侠王国的精神构架。
• Conspiracy theories aside, tussles between activists and industrialists have held projects back.
  先不谈什么阴谋论，行动主义者与实业家之间的角力已导致若干工程搁浅。