1.[i][t]（使织物边沿）磨损，磨散if clothfrays or sthfrays it, the threads in it start to come apart
The cuffs of his shirt were fraying.他衬衣的袖口磨破了。
This material frays easily.这布料容易磨损。
It was fashionable to fray the bottoms of your jeans.曾经时兴把牛仔裤磨毛。
2.[i][t]~ (sth)（使）烦躁，恼火if sb's nerves or temperfrays or sthfrays them, the person starts to get irritated or annoyed
As the debate went on, tempers began to fray.随着辩论的继续，火气就上来了。
Support for the leader was fraying at the edges.对这位领导人的拥护已开始瓦解。
Support for the leader was fraying at the edges.对这位领导人的拥护已开始瓦解。
1.[sing]打斗，竞争，争辩（尤指激烈或视为检验能力的）a fight, a competition or an argument, especially one that is exciting or seen as a test of your ability
They were ready for the fray.他们准备好了争斗。
to enter/join the fray加入争辩
At 71, he has now retired from the political fray.他现年 71 岁，已经退出了政治角逐。
But the units of the regular army that defected seem to have stayed largely out of the fray, leaving the fighting to untrained youths.
但是，投效反抗军的正规军单位大致上似乎隔岸观火，将战斗交给未受训练的年轻人。
A recent announcement by the Pentagon that it was throwing two armed Predator drones into the fray may also have had a psychological impact.
五角大楼近期宣布，正投入两架武装雄蜂“捕食者”战斗机到这场争端之中，这也许已对反叛分子带来了心理冲击。
Then, just as things were beginning to calm down, Nevada's Hispanics waded into the fray.
紧接着，就在事情刚刚开始平静下来的时候，内华达州的西班牙后裔猛烈的加入了战团。
The fabric of globalization, which had been stitched together around the so-called Washington Consensus, began to fray.
经由所谓的华盛顿共识所建立起来的全球化结构开始破裂了。
It was a gallant fight, and you and he have made a friend of me by it, for I love to see a well-fought fray.
打得漂亮！这下子你和他是我的朋友了。我就喜欢这种拼得你死我活的战斗。
It's just notable to see such a prominent market figure jumping into this strange fray.
只不过是觉得，一位对市场如此重要的人物加入这场奇怪的纷争，是值得关注的。
A lone police officer is seen for a moment then, perhaps wisely deciding for his own sake to stay out the fray.
一名警察看了一会，可能是认为躲开人群才是明智的选择。
Prior to the sixth edition, he had tried to stay out of that fray and rely on his network of friends to defend his ideas.
在第六版之前，他一直都在试图避免这些争论，依靠自己的朋友圈来捍卫自己的思想。
Even if you make a conscious effort to stay out of the fray, it's almost impossible not to be sucked in.
即使你有意识地努力避开冲突，但要完全不卷入其中几乎是不可能的。
Like most big life insurers, Aviva did enter the fray with one distinct advantage. It had already had a practice run.
英杰华和多数大型人寿保险公司一样，在加入战局的时候拥有一个特别的优点——历经实战。
China Development Bank, the policy lender, entered the fray with the purchase of a $3bn stake in Barclays of the UK a year ago.
一年前，政策性银行中国国家开发银行（CDB）以30亿美元入股英国巴克莱（Barclays），从而加入到这一竞争行列之中。
The first consequence of this fray was, that the woman who was really the thief made off and got clearly away in the crowd.
这个吵闹的结果是他们所捉住的真贼，那个女人，乘机杂在群众中跑掉了。
That question was at the center of the fray as Congress drew up the legislation over the course of the year.
在国会制订这项法案的一年期间，这一问题一直是争论的中心。
Christchurch has since been hit by several so-called aftershocks that have continued to fray residents' nerves.
自那以后，克赖斯特彻奇发生了多次所谓的余震，持续折磨着居民们的神经。
When both go up together they suggest that the delicate strands of trust that underpin the financial system are again beginning to fray.
当两者同时上扬时，则表明支撑金融体系的脆弱的信任链的再次开始磨损。
He might have been called the invulnerable dwarf of the fray.
可以说，他是混战中的一个无懈可击的侏儒。
These reinforcing effects mean that our social fabric can fray at the edges, like a yarn that comes loose at the end of a crocheted sweater.
这种边缘增强效果说明我们的社交网络边缘是疏松、易磨损的，就像用钩针编制的毛衣尾部松掉的纺线一样。
At the center of this fray is Wang Wei, the U. S. -educated Chinese official who has been the public face of Beijing's Olympic organizers.
处在这场争论风口浪尖的是北京奥组委执行副主席王伟，这位美国受过教育的中国官员是北京奥组委的一张公众名片。
Dormant opposition figures are complicating matters by trying to enter the fray.
潜在反对人士意图加入战斗则使事情变得更为复杂。
Once he posed as standing above the electoral fray , but he has now firmly come down on the side of repression and electoral fraud .
他本超然于选举之上，但他现在铁心站在压迫者和舞弊选举的一边。
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