To wriggle is to wrest about like a worm.

蠕动就是像虫子一样扭来扭去。

They managed to wrest control of everything in the townhouse.

他现在正在拍卖房产。

But the pound has rallied as British lawmakers this week wrested control over the Brexit timetable away from Johnson.

虽然英镑有起色，但本周英国议员们还是从鲍里斯手中抢走了对脱欧时间制权。

Combined French and African forces have already wrested control of the main towns in northern Mali from rebel forces.

法国和非洲联合部队已从反对派武装手里夺取了马里北部重镇制权。

Local revolutionaries sought to wrest control of Madagascar from France's lingering colonial rule.

当地革命者们试图从法国长期殖民统治中夺取对马达加斯加制权。

What! hope to wrest this old man's living power from his own living hands?

什么！想把这老人活生生权力从他手里活活夺走吗？

They were trying to wrest control of the town from an army dominated by former Seleka rebels.

他们试图将该镇从一支军队手中夺走，这支军队主要是前“塞雷卡”叛军组成。

Azerbaijan is trying to wrest back territory seized from it by neighbouring Armenia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

阿塞拜疆正试图夺回苏联解体后被邻国亚美尼亚夺去领土。

The outlook for the euro-area economy is deteriorating fast, which augurs ill for attempts to wrest the finances of indebted countries under control.

欧元区经济前景快速衰退，对于想要制负债国家财务则不是个好兆头。

In such a getting one can rejoice; such wresting as this gives value to the thing taken.

在这样得着中， 一个人可以欢喜； 像这样摔跤会给所拿东西带来价值。

His wife wrested his knife away!

他妻子夺取了他刀子。

Their expectations were that they would be able to wrest back a significant portion of a Russian-occupied territory.

他们期望是能够夺回俄罗斯占领大部分领土。

He wanted to wrest the secrets of the universe, was half defeated, and died with a laugh.

他想攫取宇宙间奥秘，不幸未竟全功，只成功了一半，乃一笑而逝。

For this is the day we are to conquer His Majesty the Scarecrow, and wrest from him the throne.

因为今天是我们征服稻草人陛下并从他手中夺取王位日子。

Harry heard a scuffle over by the door and knew that Hermione had just had her wand wrested from her as well.

哈利听到了门边扭打声，他知道，赫敏魔杖也被夺走了。

Gaza is already under very, very strict restrictions, has been since 2007 when Hamas wrested control of the enclave from Fatah, the other Palestinian faction.

自 2007 哈马斯从巴勒斯坦另一个派别法塔赫手中夺取飞地以来，加沙已经受到非常非常严格限制。

What matters is talk, family, cheap wine in the open air, the wresting of minimal sweetness out of the long-known bitterness of living .

重要是聊天，家，露天喝廉价酒，从久已熟知痛苦生活中榨取最低限度甜蜜。

No, I think it would be foolish to attempt to wrest the truth from Professor Slughorn by force, and might do much more harm than good.

我想，企图强行从斯拉格霍恩教授那儿获取真相是愚蠢，弊大于利。

And how strange it was that, instead of having been forced to reveal his own secret, he had succeeded, almost by chance, in wresting a secret from his friend!

多么奇怪，他没有被迫透露自己秘密，而是几乎是偶然地成功地从他朋友那里窃取了一个秘密！

Since Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch came up with a way a century ago to wrest nitrogen from the air and turn it into fertilizer for plants, food supplies have exploded.

自从一纪前 Fritz Haber 和 Carl Bosch 想出想出方法从空气中提取氮将其变为植物肥料后，粮食产量开始爆炸性增长。