phrasal verbphr vHOLDto try to hold on to something 企图抓住
His foot slipped and he grasped at the top of the wall.
他脚下一滑,立刻伸手去抓墙头。
Examples from the Corpus
grasp at • His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of juttingtile and dragged himself back to safety.• Miss Verjec grasped at her whistle.• We persist in grasping atneat, simpleanswers, when we should be questioning everything.• But sometimes you grasp atstraws.• For now, researchersadmit that they are still grasping at straws.• She grasped at the barrier between us and gently eased the wire apart.• Some one grasped at the side of the cart as it went past, and Arkhina smashed his fingers with a hammer.• There were exceptions, as when Bevin grasped at what became the Marshall Plan.