clenching

英 [ˈklentʃɪŋ]

美 [ˈklentʃɪŋ]

v.  (通常表示愤怒、决心或不安时)捏紧，攥紧(拳头等)，咬紧(牙齿等); 握紧; 抓牢; 攥住
clench的现在分词

现在分词：clenching　

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG 攥紧(拳头)；(拳头)紧握
  When youclenchyour fist or your fistclenches, you curl your fingers up tightly, usually because you are very angry.
  1. Alex clenched her fists and gritted her teeth...
     亚历克丝攥紧拳头，牙咬得咯咯响。
  2. She pulled at his sleeve and he turned on her, fists clenching again before he saw who it was.
     她拉了拉他的袖子，他双拳再次握紧，气冲冲地转过身来，这才发现是她。
  3. ...angry protestors with clenched fists.
     双拳紧握的愤怒的抗议者们
• VERB (通常指生气、不安时)咬紧(牙齿)，咬牙切齿
  When youclenchyour teeth or theyclench, you squeeze your teeth together firmly, usually because you are angry or upset.
  1. Patsy had to clench her jaw to suppress her anger...
     帕奇只得咬紧牙关压住怒气。
  2. Slowly, he released his breath through clenched teeth.
     他从紧咬的牙缝间慢慢地舒了口气。
• VERB 抓紧;握紧;咬紧
  If youclenchsomething in your hand or in your teeth, you hold it tightly with your hand or your teeth.
  1. I clenched the arms of my chair.
     我死死抓住椅子扶手。

双语例句

• Sitting in a dark movie theater, leaning forward with your eyes fixed on the screen and hands clenching the edge of the seat, you hear the couple behind you whisper: Is that Matt Damon?
  坐在漆黑的电影院里，双眼紧紧盯着前方的屏幕，双手紧握座椅的把手，你听到你身后的一对窃窃私语：那是马特达蒙吗？
• Brain Activities during Maximum Voluntary Clenching with Soft Occlusal Pad in Healthy Adults by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  健康成人戴用软？垫紧咬运动时脑激活区域的功能性磁共振成像研究
• When she had gone I began to walk up and down the room, clenching my fists.
  她走后，我在屋里踱来踱去，紧攥着拳头。
• She pulled at his sleeve and he turned on her, fists clenching again before he saw who it was.
  她拉了拉他的袖子，他双拳再次握紧，气冲冲地转过身来，这才发现是她。
• Bruxism is a disorder characterized by grinding and clenching of the teeth, companied with fasciculation of masticatory muscles in nonfunctional status.
  磨牙症是在非功能状态下咀嚼肌发生自发性收缩，使上下牙彼此磨动或紧咬的现象。
• It is thought that the movement of clenching the right fist activates a brain region that is involved in storing memories, while squeezing the left hand triggers an area that is key to retrieving information.
  研究人员认为，握紧右拳的动作激活了和储存记忆相关的大脑区域，而握紧左拳的动作激活了大脑中与回忆信息相关的关键区域。
• Thus performing a dance that signifies aggressive intent is an altogether different thing from snarling or clenching fists and outburst of anger.
  故而，像舞蹈可以呈现攻击的意向，但不同于吼叫、握紧拳头等愤怒样。
• Beethoven is said to have overcome his deafness by attaching a rod to his piano and clenching it between his teeth, enabling the musical vibrations to travel through his jawbone to his inner ear.
  Beethoven声称找到了克服自己耳聋欣赏音乐的方法，即通过用牙齿咬住固定在钢琴上的手柄，使音乐的震动经颌骨传至他的内耳。
• Objective To investigate the stress distribution in the normal temporomandibular joint ( TMJ) during clenching using a coupled meshless-finite element method.
  目的应用无单元&有限元耦合法探讨正常人牙尖交错位紧咬牙时颞下颌关节内的应力分布情况。
• I'll never get used to them, she thought, clenching her fists.
  我永远也看不惯这些家伙，她握紧双拳，心里想。