tussle

noun

1. 扭打，争斗，争执（尤指为了争得物品）
   a short struggle, fight or argument especially in order to get sth
   1. He was injured during a tussle for the ball.
      他在争球时受了伤。

verb

1. 扭打，争斗（尤指为了争夺物品）
   to fight or compete with sb/sth, especially in order to get sth
   1. The children were tussling with one another for the ball.
      孩子们在你抢我夺地争球。

1. V-RECIP 扭打;厮打
   If one person tussles with another, or if they tussle, they get hold of each other and struggle or fight.
   1. They ended up ripping down perimeter fencing and tussling with the security staff...
      最终他们拆毁了四周的围栏，与保安人员厮打起来。
   2. He grabbed my microphone and we tussled over that...
      他抓住我的麦克风，我们为此扭打起来。
   3. James and Elliott tussled.
      詹姆斯和埃利奥特扭打成一团。
   4. Tussle is also a noun.
      
   5. The referee booked him for a tussle with the goalie.
      他和守门员拉扯，因而被裁判记名警告。
2. V-RECIP 争夺;争抢;争斗
   If one person tussles with another for something, or if they tussle for it, they try to beat each other in order to get it.
   1. Pezzo tussled for fourth place with Orvosova...
      佩佐和奥尔沃索瓦为争夺第四名展开了激烈较量。
   2. Officials tussled over who had responsibility for the newly fashionable unemployment agenda.
      众官员为谁负责最近备受关注的失业议题一事争得不可开交。
   3. Tussle is also a noun.
      
   4. ...a legal tussle over who gets custody of the children.
      关于争夺孩子抚养权的法律纠纷
3. VERB 全力应对;竭力解决
   If someone tussles with a difficult problem or issue, they try hard to solve it.
   1. He is tussling with the problem of what to do about inflation.
      他正全力应对如何解决通货膨胀的问题。

1. League referee Keith Cooper booked him in the first half for a tussle with the goalie.
   联赛裁判基思·库珀在上半场因他与守门员抢球犯规而对他记名警告。
2. The tussle to free the individual from the nanny state is still far from won.
   将个体从保姆式国家解放出来的斗争离胜利尚远。
3. They ended up ripping down perimeter fencing and tussling with the security staff
   最终他们拆毁了四周的围栏，与保安人员厮打起来。
4. He grabbed my microphone and we tussled over that
   他抓住我的麦克风，我们为此扭打起来。
5. James and Elliott tussled.
   詹姆斯和埃利奥特扭打成一团。
6. Pezzo tussled for fourth place with Orvosova
   佩佐和奥尔沃索瓦为争夺第四名展开了激烈较量。
7. Officials tussled over who had responsibility for the newly fashionable unemployment agenda.
   众官员为谁负责最近备受关注的失业议题一事争得不可开交。
8. He is tussling with the problem of what to do about inflation.
   他正全力应对如何解决通货膨胀的问题。
9. The two teams started to tussle with each other.
   两队人马厮打了起来。
10. But, as the tussle over Ukraine has shown, Russia and the west are rivals once again.
    然而，围绕乌克兰的争吵显示出，俄罗斯和西方又一次成为了对手。
11. The Granata were unlucky to grab only a point from their relegation tussle with Bologna on Sunday.
    都灵人则不是那么幸运，在上周日与博洛尼亚的保级大战中仅仅得到一分。
12. He was reportedly nominated by his government after an internal diplomatic tussle with Benin's ambassador to UNESCO who had also hoped to be nominated.
    据报道他是在与贝宁驻UNESCO大使（他也希望被提名）进行了一场内部外交争斗之后才获得了他的政府的提名。
13. I had a tussle to get the knife off him.
    我与他扭打一阵才把刀子夺下。
14. Lucy pushes Kim, and the officer breaks up the tussle.
    露西推倒了金姆，警员拉开打架的各方。
15. The tussle over PAYGO is the opening salvo of a debate that will define the new Congress.
    关于现收现付制的争论，已成为国会辩论的开幕礼炮，也将定下新一届国会的基调。
16. Regulatory transparency is limited and local and central authorities tussle for influence over lotteries.
    监管方面的透明度有限，而且地方和中央政府还为争夺对彩票的影响力而争斗。
17. Before he chose to tell the truth he tussle with his conscience.
    在他决定讲实话之前，进行了一番良心上的斗争。
18. The conflict became a tussle of national wills.
    这一冲突成了民族意愿的争斗。
19. Quite as important as the tussle between regulators and shareholders is that between shareholders and their employees.
    与监管者和股东之间的斗争同样重要的是，股东与雇员之间的斗争。
20. Europe and the US must be prepared for a new, similarly extended tussle.
    欧洲和美国必须准备好投身一场新的、同样旷日持久的斗争。
21. Yet he presented himself as the only person who would tussle fiercely and relentlessly enough to triumph.
    不过，他说只有他才能进行足够激烈无情的斗争，以取得胜利。
22. Tokyo claims Beijing deliberately withheld exports to Japan during a diplomatic tussle over disputed fishing grounds.
    日本政府声称，北京方面在两国就争议渔场发生外交冲突期间，故意阻止对日本的出口。
23. What's different about him is a new willingness to give outsiders a glimpse of that tussle inside him.
    与以前不同的是，他现在愿意让外人觉察到他内心的矛盾。
24. There followed a long tussle for custody of the children.
    后来对孩子的监护权进行了长期争辨。
25. But this particular tussle is potentially important since it comes amid a wider regulatory debate about the agencies.
    但这场特别的争斗可能十分重要，因为值此之际，围绕这些评级机构正在进行一场更广泛的监管辩论。
26. A similar tussle is once again playing out between Chinese consumers and bullish funds.
    眼下，中国消费者与看多基金再次开始了类似的角力。
27. That would allow the creditors to tussle over the assets and liabilities as they do in Chapter 11 bankruptcies.
    这样一来，债权人便能像第11章破产保护程序那样争夺资产和负债。
28. The tussle began last month as a relatively trivial but highly public back-and-forth over which company had the lowest prices on the most anticipated new books and DVDs this fall.
    双方在一些生活相关物品上的价格战早在上个月就已开始，在一些今秋最令人期待的新图书和DVD等商品方面都发布了最低价格。
29. But the tussle between oil companies and oil-rich nations has implications far wider than prompting infighting among the companies.
    然而，石油公司和石油储量丰富的国家之间争议的影响，远远不止引发石油公司之间的内讧。
30. We have a tussle every year about where to go on holiday.
    我们每年都要为前往何处度假而争论一番。

noun

1. disorderly fighting

   Synonym:    hasslescuffledogfightrough-and-tumble

verb

1. make messy or untidy
   1. the child mussed up my hair

   Synonym:    muss

2. fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters
   1. the drunken men started to scuffle

   Synonym:    scuffle