英语释义

1. to hold together

2. to adhere as if glued firmly
The shirt clung to his wet shoulders.

3. to hold or hold on tightly or tenaciously
The kitten clung to the narrow branch.

4. to have a strong emotional attachment or dependence
he clung to his friends for support

5. to remain or linger as if resisting complete spreading or scattering
The odor clung to the room for hours.

6. an act or instance of clinging adherence

7. clingstone

8. a sheet of material (such as plastic or vinyl) designed to adhere to a flat surface by static electricity and often printed with an image or message
When it's time for a new look, simply peel off the clings and store them away for another day.
— Lorna Hordos

9. to hold onto something or someone very tightly

10. to stay very close to someone for emotional support, protection, etc.

11. to stick to something or someone

12. to hold fast by grasping or winding around
To avoid falling, cling to the railing.

13. to remain close
He clings to the family.

14. to hold fast or stick closely to a surface
These wet socks are clinging to my feet.

15. to continue to believe in
We clung to the hope that we'd be rescued.

片语

clinging legs攀握足

clinging tendency缠结倾向

clinging carcinoma贴壁性癌

clinging knits紧身针织品

clinging power粘着力

not clinging不执着

sieve clinging[粮食]

clinging vine依附男人的女人

cling film食品薄膜

Clinging On紧抱（clinging是cling的进行时态）

英汉例句

• the other group has a clinging lifestyle of sinning all week and seeking redemption on sundays.

  另一类人一贯坚持生活方式就是一星期头六天都在造孽，到星期日再求赎罪。

• it’s hard to see how his forces can win this, but they are clinging on.

  很难看出他的部队如何才能获胜，但是他们依旧在苦苦坚持。

• clinging to the hope that it is all chance, and all natural, seems naive.

  执着地认为那完全是运气或完全是自然现象，似乎太幼稚了。

• people are both clinging on to their current jobs, however much they dislike them, and dreaming of moving when the economy improves.

  不管有多讨厌现在的工作，人们还是坚持现有工作，并梦想经济好转就换工作。

• every time we invite bill to dinner, he shows up with one of his clinging vines.

  我们每次请比尔吃饭的时候，他总是带着一位贴在身上撒娇的女人。

• the data-binding tools are still clinging to w3c schemas, but otherwise reactions to it range from distaste to disdain.

  数据绑定工具仍然坚持使用 w3c模式，但是，若不使用的该模式，得到的反应不是厌恶就是鄙视。

• those who give up on life let go wrongly – when they let go of life itself, while still clinging on to their suffering and the delusion that death brings release.

  而那些选择放弃自己生命的人们实是做了错误的放弃，当他们选择放弃生命时，他们仍然浸浴在痛苦以及死可以带来解脱的幻想之中。

• it ended up being criticised for clinging too long to a process that had become discredited by the tigers’ lack of serious negotiating intent.

  由于猛虎组织缺乏认真谈判意图，长期坚持的调解进程受到质疑，挪威在备受批评后停止斡旋。

• lack of detachment is attachment, which means, among other things, clinging to old or outdated behavior and ways of thinking.

  超然的缺乏是执着，这意味着，除了其他事情外，执着于旧的或过时的行为和思维方式。

• even as he ascends to your height andcaresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall hedescend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

  它会攀至你的高处，轻抚你在阳光下颤动的最柔嫩的枝条，它也会降至你的根底，动摇你紧紧依附着大地的根须。

• we watched it over and over, my son clinging to it as some kind of validation that he was not the only one whose dad had died.

  我们一遍一遍地看这部动画片，儿子对它爱不释手，似乎在确认他不是唯一失去爸爸的孩子。

• one witness called it 「the most frightening thing of my entire life,」 and television footage showed a person clinging to a window in the cathedral’s steeple.

  一位目击者说这是他有生以来遇到的最恐怖事件。电视录像显示一人此时紧贴在尖塔的窗户上。

• his wife back from calling for help cradled him in her arms, clinging to each other, they wept at their loss.

  老人的妻子听到喊声跑了过来，抱住老头儿，他们互相依偎，为他们的损失而哭泣。

• on march 13 rescue workers approach hiromitsu shinkawa, a 60-year-old man from japan「s minamisoma city who washed out to sea during the recent tsunami and spent days clinging to a piece of roofing.

  3月13日，救援人员靠近浩光新川，一位来自南相马市的60岁老人，他在最近的海啸中被沖到海里，抱住一片屋顶的残骸坚持了几天。

• they were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.

  集合在岸上的这一大群，确实稀奇古怪——羽毛湿了的鸟、毛紧贴着身子的小动物等等，全都是湿淋淋的，横躺竖卧的，显得很狼狈。

• more probably, while we try to compare the relative power of the west and the east, we are clinging to an obsolete vocabulary.

  更有可能的是，当我们试图就西方和东方力量进行相对比较的时候，我们将会执着于已过时的词汇。

• doing things and experimenting allows you to question the status quo, discover new things, new methods but most importantly critical thinking increases your odds of not clinging to a false belief.

  实践和真实的经历会让你质疑现状并发现新的事物和新的方法，但最重要的是，批判性思维可使你不执着于虚假信念的可能性有所提升。

• another shows the rippled skin of rubber seemingly clinging to a ball of water suspended in the air - before gravity brings the moment to an end.

  另一幅图显示了起了涟漪的橡胶皮好像正依附于悬浮于空中的满球的水一样-在重力作用毁了这个瞬间之前。

• but clinging to the scheme – based on untested technology against a distant and uncertain threat – meant that russia would block american influence at every turn.

  但如果继续坚持这个计划---以未经检验的技术来防范一个遥远的未知威胁，则意味着俄罗斯以后将处处给美国下绊。

• like a parasite clinging to a host, the deadly hiv virus buds from a white blood cell grown in the laboratory.

  像寄生虫依附在它的宿体上一样，在实验室里的致命艾滋病毒在从白细胞上发芽生长。

• bt is clinging on to an old business model which is supported by illegal downloading.

  英国电信正执着于由非法下载支持的古老的商业模式。

• though clinging to a violent ideology, it has been groping crabwise towards an accommodation.

  虽然坚持暴力的意识观念，但是它一直都像螃蟹般在探索和解的方式。

• we resist change, but fear of the unknown can result in clinging to status quo behaviors—no matter how bad they are.

  我们抵抗改变，是因为对未知的恐惧可能会让我们更加依附着现状的行为——不管现状是如何的不好。

• but don」t confuse them with a simple stratus cloud clinging to a mountaintop. 「only a jaunty cloud hat」 will do.

  但不要将它与依附在山顶的简单层云弄混淆了，因为它看上起就像是一顶让人觉得欣喜的云帽。

• but knut amazed medical staff at the zoo by clinging to life.

  而克努特却坚持活了下来，让动物园的医师们大为惊讶。

• if he can liquidate this hoard into cash, arms and food, his chances of clinging on indefinitely will be boosted.

  如果他能将这些黄金换成现金、武器和食品，他选择一场持久战的可能性就将大增。

相似词

consistent始终如一的，一致的；坚持的

adherent粘着的；遵守的；（植物）联生的

adhesive黏合的；黏性的；可粘的

dependent依赖他人者；受赡养者