strike

英 [straɪk] 美[straɪk]

vi. 打，打击；罢工；敲，敲击；抓；打动；穿透
vt. 打，击；罢工；撞击，冲击；侵袭；打动；到达
n. 罢工；打击；殴打
n. (Strike)人名；(英)斯特赖克

近义词 rebel revolt

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英英释义

1. a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions;: "the strike lasted more than a month before it was settled"

2. an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective;: "the strike was scheduled to begin at dawn"

3. a pitch that is in the strike zone and that the batter does not hit;: "this pitcher throws more strikes than balls"

4. a gentle blow

5. a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball;: "he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame"

6. a conspicuous success;: "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang"

同义词辨析

beat, strike, hit, thrash, whip

这些动词均含有"打"之意。

beat：普通用词，含义广泛，指连续打击。游戏、竞赛或战争中作打败解。

strike：普通用词，多指急速或突然一次猛击。

hit：普通用词，常与strike换用，侧重有目标的猛击，强调用力击中。

thrash：侧重指用棍子或鞭子等痛打。

whip：多指用鞭子抽打。

词组搭配

strike an attitude (或 pose)

hold one's body in a particular position to create an impression

摆姿势

striking a dramatic pose, Antonia announced that she was leaving.
安东尼娅摆了个夸张的姿势后宣布她要走了。

考试真题

Even if that's the case, though, the above findings are still striking.

Although the ingredients may not strike diners as being traditional, they can be found in dishes across Britain.

Um, anything else that strikes you at the moment?

Davida Herzl, Aclima's boss, says they have revealed pollution highs on days when San Francisco's transit workers went on strike and the city's inhabitants were forced to use their cars.

The central figures in the Chicago schools strike are neither strikers nor managers but 350,000 children.

The results were striking.

Physiological disparities are quite striking among races.

The study's most striking findings shed light on the racial biases permeating the professional world.

The workers on strike were all fired.

The 500 UK motors workers who had been on strike in High Town for the past 3 three weeks went back to work this morning

How did the 3-week strike in High Town end?

Overall, the strike is an effort to provide more secondary compensation along with other concerns,such as transparency upon hiring talent and on-set safety precautions.

The central figures in the Chicago schools strike are neither strikers nor managers but 350, 000 children.

The strike comes in light of an unsuccessful 19 months of negotiations after the existing labor contract known as the Interactive Media Agreement expired in late 2014.

Another patient noticed what I was reading and struck up a conversation with me because he had one of his books with him as well.

Finally, you never know what wonderful idea might strike while your mind has moved slowly away.

It struck me that playing against the other team was a great learning moment for all the girls on the team.

Just before september, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm.

The children of nome would be helpless if it struck the town.

These effects of the Internet have become even more striking since I've begun using a smartphone.

This combination of healing myself and healing the world struck me as the perfect solution.

This function of the Internet is particularly striking when I'm writing; I'm no longer comfortable writing if I'm not connected to the Internet.

There is no doubt that gardens evidence an impossible urge to create, express, fashion, and beautify and that self-expression is a basic human urge; yet when one looks at the photographs of the garden created by the homeless, it strikes one that , for all their diversity of styles, these gardens speak of various other fundamental urges, beyond that of decoration and creative expression.

Now utopia has grown unfashionable, as we have gained a deeper appreciation of the range of threats facing us, from asteroid strike to epidemic flu and to climate change.

Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society.

实用场景例句

French air traffic controllers have begun a three-day strike in a dispute over pay...: 法国空中交通管制员因为薪资纠纷已开始了为期 3 天的罢工。

Staff at the hospital went on strike in protest at the incidents.: 医院员工举行罢工，抗议这几起事件。

...their recognition of the workers' right to strike...: 他们对工人罢工权的认同

They shouldn't be striking for more money...: 他们不该为了得到更多的钱而罢工。

She took two quick steps forward and struck him across the mouth...: 她向前紧走两步，上去扇了他一嘴巴。

He struck the ball straight into the hospitality tents...: 他将球直接打进迎宾帐篷里。

His head struck the bottom when he dived into the 6ft end of the pool...: 他一头扎进 6 英尺深的游泳池时头撞到池底了。

One 16-inch shell struck the control tower...: 一枚 16 英寸的炮弹击中了指挥塔台。

Wilde fell and struck his head on the stone floor...: 怀尔德摔倒了，头撞在石头地上。

My right toe struck against a submerged rock.: 我的右脚趾踢到水下的一块石头上了。

Bank of England officials continued to insist that the pound would soon return to stability but disaster struck...: 英格兰银行官员仍然坚持说英镑不久就会恢复稳定，但结果灾难爆发了。

Both of them were afflicted with a rare genetic disease, which struck in their thirties...: 他们两个都得了一种罕见的遗传病，这种病在他们30 多岁时发作。

The attacker struck as she was walking near a housing estate at Monacurra...: 她行走到莫纳卡拉的一个居民区附近时遭人攻击。

The killer says he will strike again...: 凶手称他还会再次下手。

...a punitive air strike.: 惩罚性空袭

...a nuclear strike.: 核武器攻击

...a rejection of her core beliefs and values, which strikes at the very heart of her being...: 对她的核心信念和价值观的否定，也就否定了她存在的根本

The issue strikes at the very foundation of our community.: 该问题直指我们社会的根基。

A thought struck her. Was she jealous of her mother, then?...: 她猛地冒出一个念头：那么难道她在嫉妒母亲吗？

At this point, it suddenly struck me that I was wasting my time.: 在这一刻，我突然意识到自己是在浪费时间。

He struck me as a very serious but friendly person...: 他让我感觉他是一个十分严肃但友好的人。

What struck me as interesting is how much we judge other people by the clothes they wear...: 让我觉得很有意思的是我们经常以衣取人。

She was struck by his simple, spellbinding eloquence...: 她被他那率直、富有鼓动性的口才迷住了。

Theresa was struck by her own lack of forethought...: 特蕾莎强烈意识到自己事先太欠考虑了。

They struck a deal with their paper supplier, getting two years of newsprint on credit...: 他们同纸张供应商达成协议，可赊购两年的新闻用纸。

The two struck a deal in which Rendell took half of what a manager would...: 两个人达成协议，伦德尔获得相当于经理所得的一半。

At times like that you have to strike a balance between sleep and homework.: 在这种情形下你得在休息和做作业之间找到一种平衡。

She struck a pose, one hand on her hip and the other waving an imaginary cigarette.: 她摆了个姿势，一只手叉腰，另一只手夹着一支假想的香烟。

If there is a single subject guaranteed to strike fear in the hearts of parents, it is drugs.: 如果只有一样东西定能让父母感到恐惧，那就是毒品。

I was struck dumb by this and had to think it over for a moment...: 这让我吃惊得说不出话来，我不得不仔细考虑一会儿。

中文词源

strike 碰，撞，击，打，踢，攻击，罢工

来自古英语 strican,轻触，抚摸，刮，来自 Proto-Germanic*strikana,轻触，刮，来自 PIE*streig, 刮，磨，轻触，词源同 streak,stroke.后词义由轻触过渡到猛击，踢打等。

双语例句

1. The strike was called by the Lebanese Forces militia.: 罢工是黎巴嫩武装民兵召集的。

2. The strike has taken on overtones of a civil rights campaign.: 罢工带上了民权运动的意味。

3. He hoped to strike it rich by investing in ginseng.: 他希望通过投资人参发大财。

4. Northbridge is a cool, calculating and clever criminal who could strike again.: 诺思布里奇是个头脑冷静、诡计多端、阴险狡诈的罪犯，他可能还会犯案。

5. The rail strike is causing major disruptions at the country's ports.: 铁路罢工使该国港口陷入了一片混乱。

英文词源

strike: strike: [OE] Strike comes from a prehistoric Germanic base which denoted ‘touch lightly’ – a sense which survived into English (‘That good horse blessed he then, and lovingly struck its mane’, Sir Ferumbras 1380). The more violent modern sense ‘hit hard’ did not begin to encroach until the 13th century. The related stroke retains the original meaning, but another relative, streak, has also lost it.

All three go back to West Germanic *strīk-, *straik-, which in turn were descended from the Indo-European base *strig-, *streig-, *stroig-, source of Latin strigilis ‘tool for scraping the skin after a bath’ (acquired by English as strigil [16]). The use of strike for ‘withdraw labour’ developed in the mid-18th century (it is first recorded in the Annual Register 1768: ‘This day the hatters struck, and refused to work till their wages are raised’).

It probably comes from the notion of ‘downing’ one’s tools, as in strike a sail ‘lower a sail’.
=> streak, strigil, stroke
strike (v.): Old English strican (past tense strac, past participle stricen) "pass lightly over, stroke, smooth, rub," also "go, move, proceed," from Proto-Germanic *strikan- (cognates: Old Norse strykva "to stroke," Old Frisian strika, Middle Dutch streken, Dutch strijken "to smooth, stroke, rub," Old High German strihhan, German streichen), from PIE root *streig- "to stroke, rub, press" (see strigil). Related to streak and stroke, and perhaps influenced in sense development by cognate Old Norse striuka.

Sense of "to deal a blow" developed by early 14c.; meaning "to collide" is from mid-14c.; that of "to hit with a missile" is from late 14c. Meaning "to cancel or expunge" (as with the stroke of a pen) is attested from late 14c. A Middle English sense is preserved in strike for "go toward." Sense of "come upon, find" is from 1835 (especially in mining, well-digging, etc., hence strike it rich, 1854). Baseball sense is from 1853. To strike a balance is from the sense "balance accounts" (1530s).

Meaning "refuse to work to force an employer to meet demands" is from 1768, perhaps from notion of striking or "downing" one's tools, or from sailors' practice of striking (lowering) a ship's sails as a symbol of refusal to go to sea (1768), which preserves the verb's original sense of "make level, smooth."
strike (n.): 1580s, "act of striking," from strike (v.). Meaning "concentrated cessation of work by a body of employees" is from 1810. Baseball sense is first recorded 1841, originally meaning any contact with the ball; modern sense developed by 1890s, apparently from foul strike, which counted against the batter, and as hit came to be used for "contact with the ball" this word was left for "a swing and a miss" that counts against the batter; figurative sense of have two strikes against (of a possible three) is from 1938. Bowling sense attested from 1859. Meaning "sudden military attack" is attested from 1942.

词态变化

复数: strikes;第三人称单数: strikes;过去式: struck; strook;过去分词: struck; stricken;现在分词: striking;