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VERB
強(qiáng)行取得;逼取
If you wring something out of someone, you manage to make them give it to you even though they do not want to.
例句
Buyers use different ruses to wring free credit out of their suppliers...
買主們千方百計想從供貨商那兒無息賒購。
In this way, he hoped to put pressure on the British and thus to wring concessions from them.
他希望通過這種方式向英國人施壓，從而迫使他們讓步。
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PHRASE
(通常因憂愁、焦慮而)絞扭雙手（干嘆息)
If someone wrings their hands, they hold them together and twist and turn them, usually because they are very worried or upset about something. You can also say that someone is wringing their hands when they are expressing sorrow that a situation is so bad but are saying that they are unable to change it.
例句
The Government has got to get a grip. Wringing its hands and saying it is a world problem just isn't good enough.
政府必須采取切實行動，一味搓著手感嘆說這是個全球性問題是遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠的。
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PHRASE
扭斷…的脖子(表示非常生某人的氣)
If you say that you will wring someone's neck or that you would like to wring their neck, you mean that you are very angry or irritated with them.
例句
That crazy Debbie! He could wring her neck for this!...
黛比那個瘋子！他會為這把她的脖子擰斷的！
I still love you even though I'd like to wring your neck.
雖然我想掐死你，但我還是愛你的。