grasp是什么意思（grasp的用法）

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一、grasp是什么意思

1、grasp 抓紧，抓牢

2、词源同grab, 抓住，抓牢。字母s、p置换。

二、grasp的用法

1、grasp (v.)

2、mid-14c., "to reach, grope, feel around," possibly a metathesis of grapsen, from Old English *græpsan "to touch, feel," from Proto-Germanic *grap-, *grab- (cognates: East Frisian grapsen "to grasp," Middle Dutch grapen "to seize, grasp," Old English grapian "to touch, feel, grope"), from PIE root *ghrebh- (1) "to seize, reach" (see grab (v.)). With verb-formative -s- as in cleanse. Sense of "seize" first recorded mid-16c. Transitive use by 17c. Figurative use from c. 1600; of intellectual matters from 1680s. Related: Grasped; grasping.

3、grasp (n.)

4、1560s, "a handle," from grasp (v.). As "act of grasping" from c. 1600; also "power of grasping." Meaning "power of intellect" is from 1680s. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? [Browning, "Andrea del Sarto"]

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