| 攫取 | jué qǔ | to plunder; to loot; robbery; pillage | |
| 攫夺 | jué duó | to seize; to pillage; to plunder | |
| 如鹰攫食 | rú yīng jué shí | as swiftly as the eagle seizes its prey (idiom) |
| 1 | But I did not care. I felt a great curiosity come over me. | |
| 2 | A cold hand squeezed his heart. He got down on his knees and began drawing numbers in the sand. | |
| 3 | You do this all the time whenever a powerful thought takes hold of you. | |
| 4 | Fear took hold, and I opened my eyes and ears to the world, desperate to find my friends. | |
| 5 | But there was something in this man's voice that caught me: the quality of the paternal love in it. |