snatching 冲动
Snatch \Snatch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snatched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Snatching}.] [OE. snachen, snechen; akin to D. snakken to
gasp, to long (for), to desire. Cf. {Snack}, n., {Sneck}.]
1. To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission
or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.
When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
--Pope.
2. To seize and transport away; to rap. ``Snatch me to
heaven.'' --Thomson.
Syn: To twitch; pluck; grab; catch; grasp; gripe.
- Brown thinks it can profit by snatching up enough high-producing brokers who are disenchanted with their big firms.
- Clabir, a defense contractor, has been snatching up Atlantic Research stock in the past two months.
- Mr. Sullivan denies snatching the idea from a Nissan Sentra television commercial about a guy named Bob who has his own highway lane, tollway booth and parking spot, as some town officials had suspected.
- Costing close to Pounds 7,000 a time, the 150mph machine is aimed at snatching back a fraction of a market dominated by the Japanese.
- "So they just dragged us through the water back to the Saratoga, and I was a real happy person to see those guys snatching me up," he said.
- MCorp halted debt and preferred dividend payments in an attempt to prevent regulators from snatching away its troubled banks.
- He served time at Rikers Island city jail for violating parole for a necklace snatching.
- Crime, much of it drug-related, is on the rise, and in the capital women clutch their purses to prevent their snatching.
- Gangsters have been snatching UN vehicles. While most people speak of an intense desire to leave instead of struggling through another winter, few have real hope of getting out.