The language sounded so familiar yet somehow distant – as if it were something I tried to grab but was always out of reach.

耳边缭绕的语言如此熟悉却有那么遥远--就像我努力试图抓住却总不可触及的东西。

youdao

What matter is that, I can kind of look back and say, "pretty much anytime I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it."

真正重要的是，当我回首往事时，我会说：「只要有机会去做那些很酷的事，我将会毫不犹豫的去争取。」

youdao

I didn't want to, because some kids there were always teasing me - it was pretty horrible when they called me a know-it-all and tried to grab my homework.

我不想那样，因为那里有些人总是欺负我，当他们叫我“百事通”并试图抢我的作业，那种场面十分可怕。

youdao

We clustered around it, but rather than swim back to the boat to get a spear from Sam, I stupidly tried to grab the lobster with my bare hand.

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"I swam hard and tried to grab a life buoy, " added the man.

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Again and again, I tried to get enough momentum to grab the crack, and always I found myself swinging back to the center of the boot, sweating and panting and cursing in the middle of the night.

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