"the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"
the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)
Adjective:
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth;
"they are avaricious and will do anything for money"
"casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"
"a grasping old miser"
"grasping commercialism"
"greedy for money and power"
"grew richer and greedier"
"prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
grasping的用法和样例：
例句
用作形容词 (adj.)
Don't let those grasping taxi-drivers charge you too much. 不要让那些贪婪的出租汽车司机向你漫天要价。
It makes a woman grasping to see her children want for things. 一个女人看到她的孩子们缺这少那,就会变得贪婪。
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