Seize

(verb.) affect; 'Fear seized the prisoners'; 'The patient was seized with unbearable pains'; 'He was seized with a dreadful disease'.

(verb.) take hold of; grab; 'The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter'; 'She clutched her purse'; 'The mother seized her child by the arm'; 'Birds of prey often seize small mammals'.

(verb.) take or capture by force; 'The terrorists seized the politicians'; 'The rebels threaten to seize civilian hostages'.

(verb.) hook by a pull on the line; 'strike a fish'.

编辑:米兰达

• Seize him and strip him, slaves, said the knight, and let the fathers of his race assist him if they can. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• You give no warning; you come noiselessly behind, seize fast, and hold on. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But study of cases of success and failure and minute and extensive comparison, helps to seize upon causes. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In what position does the conspiracy to seize the Moonstone now stand? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• As soon as it is dark this division with most of the cavalry will commence a forced march for Hanover Town to seize and hold the crossings. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The work that Edison did was, as usual, marked by infinite variety of method as well as by the power to seize on the one needed element of practical success. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• What a gladness to think that whatever humanity did, it could not seize hold of the kingdom of death, to nullify that. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Being the most polite of men, he seized the opportunity of assisting the Professor's anatomical amusements on the spot. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• As I shrank away from such a visitor, he came forward and seized my candle. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Eternal rigidity had seized upon it in a momentary transition between fervour and resignation. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• D'Arnot seized the pencil--then he stopped. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• With the death of the babe his fit of demoniacal rage passed as suddenly as it had seized him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• He stood up to defend Aspasia, he was seized by a storm of very human emotion, and as he spoke he wept--a gleeful thing for the rabble. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Now, indeed, dismay seized me--dismay and regret. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Seizing the professor by the arm, Mr. Philander set off in the direction that would put the greatest distance between themselves and the lion. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Mrs. Brown, have the goodness to come with me, and Beddoes don't you lose sight of that woman, said Mrs. Bute, seizing the candle. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I had not a moment to lose; but, seizing the hand of the old man, I cried, 'Now is the time! 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Then, seizing Captain Dobbin's hand, and weeping in the most pitiful way, he confided to that gentleman the secret of his loves. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Osborne said, seizing the white cashmere shawl from his friend's arm, and huddling up Amelia in it. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Swear it upon your honour and soul, said he, seizing my hand. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He has been so horribly frightened in the short interval that his terror seizes the other, who makes a rush at him and asks loudly, What's the matter? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Fight labor's demands to the last ditch and there will come a time when it seizes the whole of power, makes itself sovereign, and takes what it used to ask. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• A ghastly terror seizes him, while on the Negro's face (it is Mesrour again in another costume) appears a ghastly joy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He seizes a stick, which he observes there, kills Oldacre, and departs after burning the body. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He seizes her, and she, snatching up the nearest object, which happens to be this knife, strikes at him in order to make him let go his hold. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The savage who seizes hold of a broken bough is in possession of the _lever_, the uses of which he learns by the facility it affords in moving other objects. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I fed like a wild beast, which seizes its food only when stung by intolerable hunger. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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