in the grip of

基本解釋

Shiller believes America is in the grip of an irrational mania.
希勒認(rèn)爲(wèi)，美國(guó)在一個(gè)非理性的狂熱是抓地力。
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THIS may seem an odd moment to make the claim, but Britain is a country in the grip of a modernising frenzy.
現(xiàn)在似乎還不是下結(jié)論的時(shí)候，但是英國(guó)正受到對(duì)現(xiàn)代化的狂熱情緒支配。
Britain is in the grip of an obesity epidemic, with just 35% of men and 24% of women taking regular exercise.
英國(guó)的肥胖癥患者較多，但在這一人群中，衹有35％的男性和24％的女性定期進(jìn)行躰育鍛鍊。

The local economy is ruled by agriculture, but the soil is infertile and much of the northeast is in the grip of a drought.
But she was helpless in the viselike grip of the powerful man."
"They believe in me." TB has a firm grip on the township of Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape Town.

President Bush is denying claims that Iraq is in the grip of civil war.
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