The country is in the grip of a teenage crime wave.

青少年犯罪的激增让该国陷入困境。

The country was in the grip of (an) economic depression.

当时国家处于经济萧条期。

But for now, she is in the grip of a blind, unfocused anger.

但是现在，她正被一股盲目的无目标的怒气控制着。

Shiller believes that America is in the grip of an irrational mania.

希勒认为，美国正处于非理性狂热之中。

He hurried away, leaving the prisoner in the grip of the halberdiers.

他匆匆离去，把犯人留在戟兵手里。

But like many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a serious financial crisis.

但就像出版业的许多人一样，《纽约时报》也陷入了严重的金融危机。

Sudan is in the grip of unrest.

苏丹动荡不堪。

He was in the grip of a permanent euphoria.

他患了一种慢性欣快症。

Shiller believes America is in the grip of an irrational mania.

希勒认为，美国在一个非理性的狂热是抓地力。

Meanwhile, the private sector is in the grip of a Great Correction.

与此同时，私营部门受一个大的改正的控制。

Many pundits see this vast region in the grip of inexorable decline.

许多专家预计这片广袤的地区也会走向难以避免的衰退。

Georgia is not an African country in the grip of a terrible drought.

格鲁吉亚不是遭受了干旱袭击的非洲国家。

By July, much of Bolivia was in the grip of severe drought, particularly in the southeast.

到七月时，波维利亚的大部分地区尤其是东南部遭受严重干旱。

Britain is in the grip of an obesity epidemic, with just 35% of men and 24% of women taking regular exercise.

英国的肥胖症患者较多，但在这一人群中，只有35%的男性和24%的女性定期进行体育锻炼。

The world is in the grip of a swine-flu pandemic, which will probably infect 40% or more of the human race.

全球正处于H1N1型流感大流行之时，而这将可能使40%或更多的人群受到感染。

And Darwin, throughout, was in the grip of something very similar: a terrible, destabilising sense of wonder.

而达尔文自始至终都保有类似的一些东西：一份可怕的，杀伤力强大的好奇心。

Those attempting to improve the human lot worried that they themselves could be in the grip of internal cant.

那些想要改善人类命运的人们怀疑自己内心也被伪善所侵蚀。

Darwin was also in the grip of an idea so subversive that he would keep it under wraps for another two decades.

达尔文还产生了一种极具颠覆性的观念，以至于他将其保密了二十年。

With the exception of Germany and Japan, advanced countries have been in the grip of a housing boom since the mid-1990s.

自上世纪90年代中期以来，除德国和日本以外的发达国家一直处于一场房地产热潮之中。

Just three decades earlier, IBM had quit India, which was in the grip of corporatist and nationalistic industrial policies.

而在30年之前，IBM还曾经放弃过印度，当时的印度被社团主义者和民族主义的产业政策牢牢地控制着。

When we're in the grip of fear, it seems endless. How long do you think fear lasts? You can actually do an experiment to see.

当我们被恐惧抓住，似乎是永恒的。 你认为恐惧会持续多长？你能做个试验来看看。

Last week, exultant rebels in Tripoli clambered on Gaddafi's vainglorious statue of an American warplane in the grip of a mighty Libyan fist.

上周，在的黎波里欢呼的反对派爬上了卡扎菲树立的雕像，就是一架美国战机被有力的利比亚人的拳头攥住的那个雕像。

While the Northern Hemisphere is still in the grip of winter, crops are growing in the Southern Hemisphere, as indicated by the many green fields.

当北半球还处在严冬时，南半球的农作物正蓬勃生长，正如这些绿色的农田显现的那样。

Within minutes on that January morning in 1994, the Los Angeles area was in the grip of one of the most destructive earthquakes in its history.

1994年1月的那个清晨，短短几分钟之内，整个洛杉矶地区陷入了其史上最具毁灭性的一次地震。

Yet the French are now in the grip of northern fever, thanks to a comedy, "Bienvenue Chez les ch 'tis", that is breaking French box-office records.

然而，随着即将打破法国票房纪录的喜剧片《欢迎来北方》的上映，法国民众对北方的狂热是难以抑制。