1 VERB 强行取得;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. 强行取得;逼取
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Buyers use different ruses to wring free credit out of their suppliers. [V n + out of/from]
买主们千方百计想从供货商那儿无息赊购。
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In this way, he hoped to put pressure on the British and thus to wring concessions from them. [V n out of/from n]
他希望通过这种方式向英国人施压，从而迫使他们让步。
SYN twist, force, squeeze, extract
2 PHRASE (通常因忧愁、焦虑而)绞扭双手（干叹息) 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. (通常因忧愁、焦虑而)绞扭双手（干叹息)
3 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 扭断…的脖子(表示非常生某人的气) 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. 扭断…的脖子(表示非常生某人的气) [informal]
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