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Knowing whether to break up or stay together is a wrenching question that often lacks an easy answer.
要知道是否该分手还是继续在一起，这是一个很纠结的常常不容易回答的问题。
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.
不过，随着美国和其它国家的贸易逆差缩小，一些经济学家担心，中国仍可能面对一次外部账户的痛苦调整。
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，在他们结婚两个月的时候，她的丈夫在吃饭时透露了他想像女人一样生活的想法，这对夫妻从此开始为了共同生活展开了一段漫长、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.