wrenching

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Knowing whether to break up or stay together is a wrenching question that often lacks an easy answer.
要知道是否該分手還是繼續在一起，這是一個很糾結的常常不容易廻答的問題。
However, with the trade deficit in the US and other countries shrinking, some economists fear China could yet face a wrenching adjustment in its external accounts.
不過，隨著美國和其它國家的貿易逆差縮小，一些經濟學家擔心，中國仍可能麪對一次外部賬戶的痛苦調整。
But two months into their marriage in 2004, her husband revealed at dinner that he wanted to live as a woman, and the couple embarked on a long wrenching jouney to stay together.
然而就在2004年，在他們結婚兩個月的時候，她的丈夫在喫飯時透露了他想像女人一樣生活的想法，這對夫妻從此開始爲了共同生活展開了一段漫長、痛苦的旅程。

Indeed,those wrenching scenes of devastation remind us not only of our common humanity, but also of our common responsibilities,".
The decisions had to be made. They were gut-wrenching, but absolutely necessary for Chrysler's survival,"
"The reports and images that we have seen of collapsed hospitals, crumbled homes,and men and women carrying their injured neighbors through the streets are truly heart-wrenching,"

The news of the shooting at a spa in Brookfield, Wisconsin yesterday was heart-wrenching.
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If you wrench something that is fixed in a particular position, you pull or twist it violently, in order to move or remove it.
If you wrench yourself free from someone who is holding you, you get away from them by suddenly twisting the part of your body that is being held.
A wrench is the same as a .
&rarrsee also monkey wrench
If you wrench your neck, you hurt it by pulling or twisting it in an unusual way.
If someone throws a wrench or throws a monkey wrench into a process, they prevent something happening smoothly by deliberately causing a problem.