德位的手指撕扯着繩子和包裝紙。然是一聲狂嘉的尖叫，哎呀！緊接着又變為滿臉的淚水。 Della's fingers tore at the string and paper. Then came an excited scream of joy, and then, alas! a quick change to tears.
相反，它們用爪子擊打鯨魚的鼻孔，撕扯它的呼吸道，直至鼻孔被撕爛，白鯨窒息或被迫不斷浮出水換氣。這樣熊捕獵起來就容易得多。 Instead they pound at a whale's blowhole with their claws, shredding the airway until it becomes so damaged that the beluga either asphyxiates or is forced to continually surface for air,which makes it easier prey for the bears.
遊人與易怒好爭者結伴時尤當心，因為者可能把遊人也扯進他們自己的爭吵。 And let a man beware, how he keepeth company with choleric and quarrelsome persons; for they will engage him into their own quarrels.
有時，我覺得美國與我所見到的印第安族社會和佛教社會不同。太多的指手畫腳的輿論專們將我們的社會撕扯成一個四分五裂、爭論不休的希臘雅典式的社會，那些個人的藝成就被懷疑為攫取財富的企圖，或是政治宣傳的聲明。 I sometimes think that America, unlike the Sioux or the Buddhist societies I've seen, is torn by too many opinion-makers that divide us into a quarrelsome Athenian society where individual artistic achievements are suspected as attempts to enrich ourselves, or as political propaganda statements.
望着一群小學生擠在那堆殘骸中扯下扣子留作紀念，我感到有什麽東西在喉嚨梗住似的。 I watched with a lump in my throat as schoolchildren swarmed over the wreck ripping off buttons for souvenirs.
當你和你的親近的少吵嘴時候，試着就事論事，不要扯出那些陳芝麻、爛子的事； When you quarrel with a close friend, talk about the main dish, don’t quibble over the appetizers;
扯，說語無倫次地或漫無邊際地說 To talk incoherently or aimlessly.
小子帶著妄自尊大的神態沒完沒地東拉西扯。 The young man ramble on with an air of great consequence.
主題不明的，東拉西扯的包含很大圍的主題；雜亂無章的 Covering a wide field of subjects; rambling.
他東扯西拉地告訴我們這件事，那件事。 He rambled on telling us first of one thing, then of another.
瞎扯，開始認真工作吧。 Let's have no more rapping and knuckle down to work.
瞎扯,開始認真工作吧. Let's have no more rapping and knuckled own to work.
死丈夫的母親把兩個孩子拉扯大。 The widowed mother reared up the two children.
我一直留意着不要扯到瑪格麗特，生怕一提起這個名字會使得情緒已安定下來的病人重新想起他過去的傷心事； I studiously avoided speaking to him of Marguerite, for I was still afraid that the name would reawaken some sad memory which slumbered beneath the sick man's apparent calm.
他把有關那樁盜竊的新聞報導統統扯下來。 He ripped out and destroyed any news item referring to the theft.
撕裂，扯裂扯或撕；撕裂 To rip or tear; rend.
不然的話，機構龐大，人浮於事，官僚主義，拖拖拉拉，互相扯皮，你這邊往下放權，他那邊往上收權，必然會阻礙經濟節制制度改革，拖經濟展的腿。 Otherwise, organizational overlapping, overstaffing, bureaucratism, sluggishness, endless disputes over trifles and the repossession of powers devolved to lower levels will retard economic restructuring and economic growth.
將軍的戰艦扯滿風帆從我們前駛過。 The admiral's ship passed us under press of sail.
有時他們所說的非開誠公。1940年，羅斯福想悄悄地規避戰爭問題。當他這樣做瞞不人時，他脆扯謊。 And sometimes what they do say isn't revealing at all. In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt tried to tiptoe around the war question and when that didn't wash, he simply lied about it.
…報仇；與…扯平 To take revenge upon; get even with.
拉拉扯扯，吹吹拍拍，好搞宗派活動的； persons who are adept at mutual flattery and the exchange of favours and who are keen on factional activities;
撕開通過撕扯來分開或隔；撕開 To separate or detach by ripping; rip open.
拉裂撕扯的動作 The act of ripping.
他把紐扣從襯衣上扯下來。 He ripped the buttons from the shirt.
他把墻上的退色帷扯下來。 He ripped away the faded hangings from the wall.
電話綫已被罪犯扯斷。 The telephone wires have been ripped away by the criminals.
而另一個聲音卻使她血都凝固--是從衣架上扯衣服的聲音！ But another sound froze her blood-- the ripping of clothes from hangers!
那個人東拉西扯地談一些上周的事. The speaker roamed freely over the events of the past week.
撕破，割裂，扯裂粗暴或猛力地砍開、撕開或扯開 To cut, tear apart, or tear away roughly or energetically.
活動防浪帆船上一活動竜骨，可以繞樞軸扯起以減少船在淺水的吃水深度 A movable keel in a sailboat that can be pivoted upward to reduce the boat's draft in shallow water.
手套接縫處開裂，似乎因很大的外力撕扯所致，好退還。 The gloves is returned; though having been broken at seam, they appear to have been torn open by some unusual force.
一個參議員硬把這個題目拉扯進來，作為一種阻礙議事的手法。 A senator dragged the subject in as a filibuster.