活学活用，多看才能多用。下面我们来看下关于“抓”的例子，了解怎么在不同语境下准确翻译这个字。

例1：要抓住机会，现在就是好机会。

We must grasp opportunities; the present offers an excellent one.

例2：我们要抓住时机，现在是改革的最好时机。

We must seize this highly opportune moment for reform.

分析：这两个例子中，“抓住”和机会、时机连用，英文中正好有对应的说法，可以用seize，也可以用grasp，其他场合就需要活用了。

例3：一个地区，一个部门，如果只抓经济，不抓教育，那里的工作重点就是没有转移好，或者说转移得不完全。

If a locality or a department pays attention only to the economy and not to education, it has failed to shift the focus of its work completely.

例4：我建议抓一下这个问题。

I suggest you do something about this problem.

例5：忽视教育的领导者，是缺乏远见的、不成熟的领导者，就领导不了现代化建设。各级领导要像抓好经济工作那样抓好教育工作。

Leaders who neglect education are neither far-sighted nor mature, and they are therefore unable to lead the drive for modernization. Leaders at all levels should try to make educational work a success just as they do economic work.

例6：在整个改革开放过程中都要反对腐败。对干部和共产党员来说，廉政建设都要作为大事来抓。

Throughout the process of reform and opening; we must combat corruption. Cadres and Party members should consider it of prime importance to build a clean government.

分析：在例3到6中，讲的是抓某项具体工作，意思是要在某一方面有所作为，做出成绩。根据这一理解，便有许多译法可以选用，如pay attention to, do something about, keep working at等。也可以根据上下文采用其他你发，例如例5。