Panic took hold of him and he couldn't move.

他突然惊慌得动弹不得。

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Office workers fled in panic as the fire took hold.

火势起来时，办公室人员惊慌逃出。

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Gently, she took hold of the door handle and turned it.

她轻轻地握住门把手扭动了它。

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This huge warrior threw me to the ground and then took hold of my arm again to pick me up.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

Her answer was this and it's got something to do with how a lost cause took hold too but she said, "Southerners love a good tale.

她是这么回答的,同时也解释了为何南方人始终无法释怀,她说,"南方人钟爱精彩的故事

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

We didn't know a great deal about certain authors until this period of the flourishing of philology in the very late nineteenth and early twentieth century took hold and pretty much created for us the archive that we now use today in a variety of ways.

有些作家的作品,直到19世纪末20世纪初的,语言学繁荣期才为人所知,这个时期也孕育了,我们今天用来研究的文本档案。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

As the peace process took hold in the Middle East, conflict broke out in Bosnia.

BBC: Middle East Correspondent Jim Muir

Once the stock market boom took hold in 2003, however, the trend is very clear.

FORBES: Why Gas Prices Are Rising . . . Again!

Palestinians in Gaza have fired several rockets since an informal cease-fire took hold after the fighting.

NPR: Israel Says It Will Not Let Gaza Rockets Continue