phrasal verbphr vHOLDto try to take hold of something 试图抓住
She caught at his arm, ‘Hang on. I’m coming with you.’
她伸手去抓住他的手臂:“等一下,我和你一起去。”
Examples from the Corpus
catch at • In this way there is less chance of being caught at a disadvantage or being ambushed by circumstances.• But the presence of a lot of barbel is not the only reasonwhy large numbers can be caught at a sitting.• She heard him catch at air, and cough up the last slime of the river.• Such small tumors are often caught at an earlier, more curablestage.• But it is not only trout that I have caught at Coldingham.• He had merely been caught at it, that was all, or half way caught at it.• He completed passes to nine different Seahawks, with seven of them catching at least two.• It works so well at San Pablo that more trout are stocked and caught at this lake than any other in California.