Clutch

(noun.) a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism; 'this year's model has an improved clutch'.

(noun.) a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism; 'he smoothely released the clutch with one foot and stepped on the gas with the other'.

(noun.) a number of birds hatched at the same time.

(noun.) a tense critical situation; 'he is a good man in the clutch'.

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• The Count made a clutch at his pistol, and muttered an execration, but, thinking better of it, recovered his temper, and burst out laughing. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• What should I do--how should I act now, this very day, if I could clutch my own pain, and compel it to silence, and think of those three? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I have got into the clutch of an eagle with iron talons. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As he said this, he released me from his clutch, and only looked at me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• In each hand he seemed as if he would have liked to clutch one and gripe her to death. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He that is in the lion's clutch, answered Fitzurse, knows it were needless. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Overpowered with watching and exertion, I had closed my eyes for a few minutes, when I felt a violent clutch on my shoulder. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• You seem to be clutching at the void--and at the same time you are void yourself. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Well, sir,' observed Venus, after clutching at his dusty hair, to brighten his ideas, 'let us put it another way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But it seemed to him, woman was always so horrible and clutching, she had such a lust for possession, a greed of self-importance in love. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• That about-- _Nancy_,' said Fagin, clutching Sikes by the wrist, as if to prevent his leaving the house before he had heard enough. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Oh, don't leave me--don't leave me, Goodwin,' murmured Mrs. Pott, clutching at the wrist of the said Goodwin with an hysteric jerk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• So little Tarzan wriggled out from beneath the struggling mass, clutching his grisly prize close to his breast. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• But I am more than a lad,' said Bradley, with his clutching hand, 'and I WILL be heard, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I clutched the leg of the table again immediately, and pressed it to my bosom as if it had been the companion of my youth and friend of my soul. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• She shut her eyes as it passed, and clutched at Archer's hand. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I still held on to the leg of the table, but clutched it now with the fervor of gratitude. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• You then-- Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my companion's knees. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• One piercing scream escaped her lips as the brute hand clutched her arm. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Her hands clutched his limbs, his muscles, going over him spasmodically. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He clutched her hand to detain her. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Dejah Thoris in the clutches of the First Born! 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Safety clutches are numerous, by which the machine is quickly and automatically stopped by the action of electro-magnets should a workman or other obstruction be caught in the machinery. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Be the First Born gods or mortals, they are a powerful race, and we are as fast in their clutches as though we were already dead. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• An arm of the main conflagration had shot out a half mile south of its parent to embrace this tiny strip of road in its implacable clutches. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Once out of her clutches and she cannot harm you. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Behind us we left the stricken city in the fierce and brutal clutches of some forty thousand green warriors of the lesser hordes. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Clutches (called striking boxes) on the axle of the front gear wheel allowed either running wheel to move independently of the other in turning. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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