tugging
英 ['tʌgɪŋ] 美 ['tʌgɪŋ]

n.

牵引感；

v.

用力拉，使劲拉，猛扯( tug的现在分词 )；

英英释义

tug[ 'tʌgiŋ ]

• n.
  • a sudden abrupt pull

    同义词：jerk

  • a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships

    同义词：tugboattowboattower

• v.
  • pull hard

    "The prisoner tugged at the chains"; "This movie tugs at the heart strings"

  • strive and make an effort to reach a goal

    "She tugged for years to make a decent living"

    同义词：laborlabourpushdrive

  • tow (a vessel) with a tug

    "The tugboat tugged the freighter into the harbor"

  • carry with difficulty

    同义词：lugtote

  • move by pulling hard

    "The horse finally tugged the cart out of the mud"

  • pull or strain hard at

    "Each oar was tugged by several men"

  • struggle in opposition

    "She tugged and wrestled with her conflicts"

词组短语

tug of war拔河，拔河比赛；两派间的激烈竞争

tug boat拖船；拖轮

双语例句

1. Tom felt a tug at his sleeve.
   汤姆觉得有人拉了拉他的衣袖。
2. Suddenly I felt someone tugging at my hair.
   突然我感到有人扯我的头发。

权威例句

Mechanical tugging force regulates the size of cell鈥揷ell junctions
Guiding cell migration by tugging
Animal amusement tugging device
Tugging Graphs Faster: Efficiently Modifying Path-Preserving Hierarchies for Browsing Paths
An investigation on tether-tugging de-orbit of defunct geostationary satellites
Tugging contests reveal feeding hierarchies in naked mole-rat colonies
On Beyond Tugging: A Comment on I. Hashimoto's "Taxonomy of Scholarly Publication"
Tugging at the Skirts of Presidential Victory
Nasal dilator
Landing apparatus for airship and the like