They were trying to wrest control of the town from an army dominated by former Seleka rebels.

他们试图将该镇从一支军队手中夺走，这支军队主要是前“塞雷卡”叛军组成。

Harry heard a scuffle over by the door and knew that Hermione had just had her wand wrested from her as well.

哈利听到了门边的扭打声，他知道，赫敏的魔杖也被夺走了。

For this is the day we are to conquer His Majesty the Scarecrow, and wrest from him the throne.

因为今天是我们征服稻草人陛下并从他手中夺取王位的日子。

Gaza is already under very, very strict restrictions, has been since 2007 when Hamas wrested control of the enclave from Fatah, the other Palestinian faction.

自 2007 年哈马斯从巴勒斯坦另一个派别法塔赫手中夺取飞地以来，加沙已经受到非常非常严格的限制。

Since Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch came up with a way a century ago to wrest nitrogen from the air and turn it into fertilizer for plants, food supplies have exploded.

自从一世纪前 Fritz Haber 和 Carl Bosch 想出想出方法从空气中提取氮将其变为植物肥料后，粮食产量开始爆炸性增长。

And how strange it was that, instead of having been forced to reveal his own secret, he had succeeded, almost by chance, in wresting a secret from his friend!

多么奇怪，他没有被迫透露自己的秘密，而是几乎是偶然地成功地从他的朋友那里窃取了一个秘密！

With the growth of the northwestern empire, dedicated by nature to freedom, the planting interests might have been content, had fortune not wrested from them the fair country of California.

——随着西北帝国的发展， 天生致力于自由，种植利益可能会满足， 如果没有从他们手中夺走美丽的加利福尼亚州的财富。

' The Jew inflicted a smart blow on Oliver's shoulders with the club; and was raising it for a second, when the girl, rushing forward, wrested it from his hand.

’犹太人用棍子狠狠地打了奥利弗的肩膀一下。 正举起它一秒钟， 女孩冲上前， 从他手中夺过它。

A new document issued seven years later wrested from the Puritans of the colony the right to elect their own governor and reserved the power of appointment to the king.

七年后发布的一份新文件从殖民地的清教徒手中夺取了选举他们自己的州长的权利，并将任命权保留给国王。

As this occurred Austria and Russia, the Ottomans' two northern neighbours in the Balkans and the Black Sea, engaged in a series of wars to wrest control of territory from the Turks.

与此同时，奥斯曼帝国在巴尔干半岛和黑海的两个北方邻国奥地利和俄罗斯爆发了一系列战争，以从土耳其人手中夺取领土控制权。

He who would attack that state from the outside must have the utmost caution; as long as the prince resides there it can only be wrested from him with the greatest difficulty.

至于那些想从外部进攻这个国家的人，就必须非常谨慎，因为当君主驻节其地之日，想把它从君主手里夺取过来是极困难的。

Rushing upon her suddenly, He wrested the dagger from her hand: He plunged it still reeking with his Brother's blood in her bosom, and put an end to her existence by repeated blows.

他突然冲向她，从她手中夺过匕首：他将还散发着他兄弟鲜血气味的匕首刺入她的怀中，并用反复的打击结束了她的存在。

As Ron ran to pull Hermione out of the wreckage, Harry took the chance: He leapt over an armchair and wrested the three wands from Draco's grip, pointed all of them at Greyback, and yelled, " Stupefy! "

罗恩冲向赫敏，把她从这个灾难中推了出去。哈利抓住这个机会：他跳过一把扶手椅子夺下了德拉科紧握着的三支魔杖，把它们全部瞄准格雷伯克大叫：“昏昏倒地！”

I threw him upon the ground; I grasped him still tighter; and while I fixed him without motion upon the floor, Marguerite, wresting the dagger from his hand, plunged it repeatedly in his heart till He expired.

我把他扔在地上； 我把他抱得更紧了； 当我把他固定在地板上一动不动时， 玛格丽特从他手中夺过匕首， 反复刺入他的心脏， 直到他死了。

The average educated man has never stood alone, utterly alone, just clad and nothing more than that, with the problem before him of wresting his next meal from a world that cares not whether he live or die.

受过教育的普通人从来没有独自一人， 完全孤独，只穿着衣服， 仅此而已，面对他面前的问题， 即从一个不关心他生死的世界中获取下一顿饭。

The arm of the latter slowly gave way before the increasing force of the scout, who, suddenly wresting his armed hand from the grasp of the foe, drove the sharp weapon through his naked bosom to the heart.

后者的手臂在侦察兵不断增加的力量面前慢慢屈服， 侦察兵突然从敌人的手中夺过武装的手， 将锋利的武器穿过他赤裸的胸膛刺向心脏。

A little over a month ago, Mr. Johnson, a brash, blustery politician often compared to President Trump, swept into office with a vow to finally wrest Britain from the European Union by whatever means necessary, even if it meant a disorderly, no-deal departure.

这名性情急躁，常被比作特朗普的政治家一个多月前刚刚走马上任，他在上任时宣称，要不惜一切代价，即使意味着以混乱、无协议的方式退出，也要将英国从欧盟分离出来。