n.扳鉗，扳手；猛扭；痛苦

vt.扭傷；掙脫

vi.猛扭；曲解

It's hard to get at the spark plug without a proper wrench. 沒有一把合適的扳鉗，要抓住那個火花塞是困難的。

The knob broke off when he gave it a sudden wrench. 當他突然扭了一下球形把手，它便斷了。

Leaving home was a terrible wrench for him. 他覺得離開家十分痛苦。

She couldn't stand the wrench of departure. 她受不了離別的痛苦。

Be careful. Don't wrench yourself. 小心點，別扭傷了。

She wrenched herself from the villain's clutches. 她掙脫了那惡棍的掌握。

I had to wrench the lid off the bottle. 我只好把瓶蓋擰開。

Throwing a potential wrench in the new discovery, other scientists say they had already identified the species and given it another name. 排除了新發(fā)現(xiàn)的曲解的可能性，其他科學家們也表示已經(jīng)認同了這個物種并另給它一個命名。

wrench的基本意思是“猛拉”“猛扭”,指用很強的力把物體朝自己所在的方向或跟著自己移動,有時也可指朝某一方向轉(zhuǎn)動。用于比喻可表示“歪曲”“曲解”等。

wrench的既可用作及物動詞,也可用作不及物動詞。用作及物動詞時,接名詞、代詞作賓語,也可接由形容詞充當補足語的復合賓語。