To wriggle is to wrest about like a worm.

蠕动就是像虫一样扭来扭去。

They managed to wrest control of everything in the townhouse.

他现卖房产。

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表的控制权。

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了马里北部重镇的控制权。

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

当地的革命者们试图从法国长期的殖民统治中对马达加斯加的控制权。

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

什么！想把这老人活生生的权力从他手里活活走吗？

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.

阿塞拜疆试图回苏联解体后被邻国亚美尼亚去的领土。

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

这样的得着中， 一个人可以欢喜； 像这样的摔跤会给所拿的东西带来价值。

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

欧元区经济的前景快速衰退，对于想要控制负债国家的财务则不是个好兆头。

His wife wrested his knife away!

他的妻了他的刀。

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

他们的期望是能够回俄罗斯占领的大部分领土。

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

他想攫宇宙间的奥秘，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王位的日。

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

哈利听到了门边的扭打声，他知道，赫敏的魔杖也被走了。

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飞地以来，加沙已经受到非常非常严格的限制。

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

重要的是聊天，家庭，露天喝廉价酒，从久已熟知的痛苦生活中榨最低限度的甜蜜。

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真相是愚蠢的，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的秘密，而是几乎是偶然地成功地从他的朋友那里窃了一个秘密！

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.

自从一世纪前 Fritz Haber 和 Carl Bosch 想出想出方法从空气中提氮将其变为植物肥料后，粮食产量开始爆炸性增长。