vise

1 An old squeezing of a Manichaean vise is at work, and during Holy Week that dynamic shows up with rare clarity.

2 I sucked in a single deep breath, my lungs pushing painfully against the vise trapping my chest.

3 As they were on the verge of being squeezed, as if in a vise, doom loomed.

4 Then, lock the tool into a vise or hold it still with a clamp and move a mill file along the edge of the blade to sharpen.

5 On a recent afternoon at Soho Rep, a welder sent sparks arcing past a dressing room strewn with metal bars and twin vises holding lengths of steam pipe.

6 Even lawyers, a traditionally risk-averse bunch who tend to choose their profession for its stability, are getting caught in the vise between increasing law school tuitions and decreasing job prospects.

7 Life was hard, but safe - unlike at home, where the Nazi vise was tightening around the Jews who remained.

8 By the way, may I see your vise and passport, please ?

另外, 我可以看一下您的签证和护照 吗 ?

9 There was one last-minute reprieve of a bodyguard when a witness shouted testimony just as the vise was pinching blood.

10 The cold of the water feels like a vise but I hold it there, hearing the bubbling of the water rushing by and the wordless barks of a worried Manchee hopping around my feet.

11 You won't be a vise president with a car phone, until you earn both.

也不可能是一个拥有安装有电话的汽车的副总。

12 That music came out of the speakers and grabbed my throat, and heart, in a vise and never let go.

13 Nevertheless, Lanre’s power lay on him like a great weight, like a vise of iron, and Selitos found himself unable to move or speak.

14 His subjects often had their heads stabilized by an unseen vise.

15 The first man carries the tray to his station, sets an engagement ring in his vise, and peels back the prongs with tweezers.

16 “Well, that isn’t too terrible,” Boo Boo said, holding him between the two vises of her arms and legs.

17 Reef stretched its neck and opened its jaw, a powerful vise able to crack the shells of conches and whelks with one chomp.

18 And there are also bench vises with a hefty anvil incorporated into them.

19 It is a story about a man who, as he seeks to build an empire in the arcane world of heating oil, undertakes a number of risks while a vise tightens around him.

20 “Clyde’s” is about the economic vise on the formerly incarcerated, in this case, the diner’s cooks, all of whom are holding on for dear life to their jobs in Clyde’s kitchen.

1 虎钳

vice

2 老虎钳

vice pliers

3 台钳

vice