A wild anger took hold of Clare.

一种疯狂的愤怒占据了克莱尔的思想。

Once an idea has taken hold of the brain...

一旦大脑被某个想法占据。

“Never mind the slippery reality it portrays, ” she writes, “the spell of its otters took hold of me long ago and I still long to see one in the wild.”

“千万不要介意其光滑的外在”她写到，“水獭的魔力早已将我牢牢吸引，我现在仍然渴望能在野外看到水獭。”

In the pitch blackness, he felt Hermione take hold of his arm and together, they turned on the spot.

在极度的黑暗中，他感到赫敏抓住了他的胳膊。他们俩一起准备幻影移形。

Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations.

然而，孩子就是孩子，古怪滑稽的跳跳埚占据了他们的想象。

Fagin took hold of the Dodger's collar and shook him violently.

费金抓住神偷的衣领拼命地摇晃着他。

I don't know why I took hold of the rope, but I did.

我自己也不知道为什么要抓住绳子，但我已做了。

People tend to think of fatness as an indicator of laziness, of over-indulgence, of a lack of moral fibre, an unwillingness to take hold of your own life.

人们往往会把肥胖看作懒惰，过度放纵或缺乏道德精神，不愿意掌控自己人生的象征。

Then Robert took hold of him and put him on top of the haystack.

罗伯特抓住他，把他放在草堆顶上。

So she oiled, and as it was quite badly rusted the Scarecrow took hold of the tin head and moved it gently from side to side until it worked freely and then the man could turn it himself.

多萝茜把油加在它上面，它确实锈的很严重。 稻草人扶着他的铁皮头小心地左右活动着，直等到它能随意运转，然后铁皮人就可以自己转头了。

He took hold of my arm, and the others crowded round me.

他抓住我的胳膊，其它人把我围起来。

The worker took hold of the rope and pulled it hard.

工人握住绳子猛力一拉。

Takes hold of the steering wheel, starts the car, and follows his instructions.

把住方向盘，发动汽车，照他的话做起来。

At first, discouragement took hold of people's minds, opening the door to disbelief.

首先是人心失望，给怀疑的心理打开一个缺口。

Misguided pension nationalism is taking hold of western governments.

被误导的养老金民族主义正在主导西方政府。

Greed took hold of our captain and first mate.

贪婪吞噬了我们的船长和大副。

Macomber was watching the opposite bank when he felt Wilson take hold of his arm.

麦康伯正望着对岸，他突然感到威尔逊抓住他的胳膊。

She took hold of Helen's hand and placed it over her mouth to allow the girl to feel the movement of her lips and tongue as she spoke.

她抓住海伦的手，把它放在嘴上，让女孩感觉到她说话时嘴唇和舌头的动作。

In 1975 some of the millions of Egyptians who paid their respects to Um Kalthoum, a megastar singer, took hold of her coffin and shouldered it for hours through the streets of Cairo.

1975年，数以百万计的埃及人向超级巨星歌手乌姆·库勒苏姆致敬，其中一些人抱着她的棺材，扛着它走过开罗的街道长达几个小时。

Everyone grew more cheerful and spoke more kindly of General Johnston. As wet June days passed into a wetter July and the Confederates, fighting desperately around the entrenched heights, still held Sherman at bay, a wild gaiety took hold of Atlanta.

从六月到七月雨水愈来愈多，南部联盟军在设防坚固的高地周围死守苦战，叫谢尔曼进退两难。