| 单词 | strike |
| 释义 | strike (straɪk ) Word forms: strikes , striking , struck , stricken language note: The form struck is the past tense and past participle. The form stricken can also be used as the past participle for meanings [sense 6], , [sense 17], and , [sense 19].language note: The form struck is the past tense and past participle. The form stricken can also be used as the past participle for meanings [sense 6] and , [sense 17]. 1. countable noun [oft on NOUN] B1+ When there is a strike, workers stop doing their work for a period of time, usually in order to try to get better pay or conditions for themselves. [business] French air traffic controllers have begun a three-day strike in a dispute over pay. Staff at the hospital went on strike in protest at the incidents. ...a call for strike action. Synonyms: walkout, industrial action, mutiny, revolt 2. verb B2 When workers strike, they go on strike. [business] ...their recognition of the workers' right to strike. [VERB] They shouldn't be striking for more money. [VERB + for] The government agreed not to sack any of the striking workers. [VERB-ing] Synonyms: walk out, take industrial action, down tools, revolt striker Word forms: strikers countable noun The strikers want higher wages, which state governments say they can't afford. 3. verb B1+ If you strike someone or something, you deliberately hit them. [formal] She took two quick steps forward and struck him across the mouth. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] He struck the ball straight into the hospitality tents. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] I struck it away and got a bite on my forearm. [VERB noun preposition/adverb] It is impossible to say who struck the fatal blow. [VERB noun] Synonyms: drive, propel, force, hit 4. verb B1+ If something that is falling or moving strikes something, it hits it. [formal] His head struck the bottom when he dived into the 6ft end of the pool. [VERB noun] One 16-inch shell struck the control tower. [VERB noun] ...the fire which began when the installation was struck by lightning. [VERB noun] Synonyms: collide with, hit, run into, bump into 5. verb B2 If you strike one thing against another, or if one thing strikes against another, the first thing hits the second thing. [formal] Wilde fell and struck his head on the stone floor. [V n + on/against] My right toe struck against a submerged rock. [VERB + against] Synonyms: knock, bang, smack, thump 6. verb If something such as an illness or disaster strikes, it suddenly happens. Bank of England officials continued to insist that the pound would soon return to stability but disaster struck. [VERB] Both of them were afflicted with a rare genetic disease, which struck in their thirties. [VERB] A powerful earthquake struck the island early this morning. [VERB noun] He was suddenly struck with such a sense of grief, of loss, that his eyes filled with tears. [VERB noun] Synonyms: affect, move, hit, touch 7. verb B1+ To strike means to attack someone or something quickly and violently. The attacker struck as she was walking near the town centre. [VERB] The killer says he will strike again. [VERB] Then the scorpion struck. [VERB] Synonyms: attack, assault someone, fall upon someone, set upon someone 8. countable noun A military strike is a military attack, especially an air attack. ...a punitive air strike. ...a nuclear strike. ...strategic strikes against enemy forces. Synonyms: attack, bombing, assault, air strike 9. verb If something strikes at the heart or root of something, it attacks or conflicts with the basic elements or principles of that thing. [literary] ...a rejection of her core beliefs and values, which strikes at the very heart of her being. [VERB + at] The issue strikes at the very foundation of our community. [VERB at noun] Synonyms: attack, hit, affect, assault 10. verb [no cont] B2 If an idea or thought strikes you, it suddenly comes into your mind. A thought struck her. Was she jealous of her mother, then? [VERB noun] At this point, it suddenly struck me that I was wasting my time. [VERB noun that] Synonyms: occur to, hit, come to, register [informal] 11. verb If something strikes you as being a particular thing, it gives you the impression of being that thing. He struck me as a very serious but friendly person. [VERB noun + as] What struck me as interesting is how much we judge other people by the clothes they wear. [V n as n/adj] You've always struck me as being an angry man. [VERB noun + as] Synonyms: seem to, appear to, look to, give the impression to 12. verb B2 If you are struck by something, you think it is very impressive, noticeable, or interesting. She was struck by his simple, spellbinding eloquence. [be V-ed + by/with] Theresa was struck by her own lack of forethought. [be V-ed by/with n] What struck me about the firm is how genuinely friendly and informal it is. [VERB noun] Synonyms: move, touch, impress, hit 13. verb If you strike a deal or a bargain with someone, you come to an agreement with them. They struck a deal with their paper supplier, getting two years of newsprint on credit. [VERB noun + with] The two struck a deal in which Rendell took half of what a manager would. [VERB noun] He insists he has struck no bargains for their release. [VERB noun] Synonyms: agree on, settle on, come to an agreement on, sign 14. verb If you strike a balance, you do something that is halfway between two extremes. At times like that you have to strike a balance between sleep and homework. [VERB noun] Synonyms: achieve, arrive at, attain, reach 15. verb If you strike a pose or attitude, you put yourself in a particular position, for example when someone is taking your photograph. She struck a pose, one hand on her hip. [VERB noun] Synonyms: assume, adopt, affect, take on 16. verb If something strikes fear into people, it makes them very frightened or anxious. [literary] His name strikes fear into the hearts of his opponents. [V n + in/into] 17. verb [usually passive] If you are struck dumb or blind, you suddenly become unable to speak or to see. [written] I was struck dumb by this and had to think it over for a moment. [be VERB-ed] For this revelation he was struck blind by the goddess Hera. [be VERB-ed adjective] Synonyms: make, render, cause to become, leave 18. verb When a clock strikes, its bells make a sound to indicate what the time is. The clock struck nine. [VERB noun] Finally, the clock strikes. [VERB] Synonyms: ring, sound, toll, dong 19. verb If you strike words from a document or an official record, you remove them. [formal] Strike that from the minutes. [VERB noun + from] Her achievements were struck from the record book. [VERB noun from noun] Synonyms: delete, remove, erase, pull Strike out means the same as strike. The censor struck out the next two lines. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 20. verb When you strike a match, you make it produce a flame by moving it quickly against something rough. Robina struck a match and held it to the crumpled newspaper in the grate. [VERB noun] Synonyms: ignite, light, set alight, touch off 21. verb If someone strikes oil or gold, they discover it in the ground as a result of mining or drilling. Hamilton Oil announced that it had struck oil in the Liverpool Bay area of the Irish Sea. [VERB noun] 22. verb [usually passive] When a coin or medal is struck, it is made. Another medal was specially struck for him. [be VERB-ed] 23. countable noun [N against n] If someone has two strikes against them, things cause them to be in a bad situation or at a disadvantage. [mainly US, informal] The Hotel has two strikes against it. One, it's an immense ugly concrete building. Second, it lies in a rather awkward position. When I got out I couldn't find any work, and for being an ex-con, that was a strike against me. 24. See also stricken, striking, hunger strike 25. within striking distance phrase [oft PHR of n] If you are within striking distance of something, or if something is within striking distance, it is quite near, so it could be reached or achieved quite easily. I believe we are within striking distance of an agreement. The airport was within striking distance: no more than sixty miles to the west. 26. to strike gold phrase If you strike gold, you find, do, or produce something that brings you a lot of money or success. [journalism] The company has struck gold with its new holiday development. 27. strike it rich phrase If you strike it rich, you make a lot of money, especially in a short time. [informal] He hoped to strike it rich by investing in ginseng. 28. to strike a chord phrase If something strikes a chord with you, it makes you feel sympathy or enthusiasm. These words will strike a chord with all parents of teenagers. Burke's sentiments undoubtedly struck a responsive chord in Parliament. 29. to strike home phrase If something that is thrown or fired strikes home, it reaches its target. [written] Only two torpedoes struck home. 30. to strike it lucky phrase If you strike lucky or strike it lucky, you have some good luck. [mainly British, informal] You may strike lucky and find a sympathetic and helpful clerk, but, there again, you might not. 31. to strike a happy medium phrase If you strike or find a happy medium between two extreme and opposite courses of action, you find a sensible way of behaving that is somewhere between the two extremes. I aim to strike a happy medium between playing entertaining football and getting results. It's very difficult to strike a happy medium and make it right for everybody. Phrasal verbs: strike back phrasal verb If you strike back, you harm or criticize someone who has harmed or criticized you. Our instinctive reaction when someone causes us pain is to strike back. [VERB PARTICLE] Sometimes, Kappy got angry and struck back at him in whatever way she could. [VERB PARTICLE + at] The president struck back at critics. [V P at n] strike down 1. phrasal verb [usually passive] If someone is struck down, especially by an illness, they are killed or severely harmed by it. [written] Frank had been struck down by a massive heart attack. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] ...a great sporting hero, struck down at 49. [VERB-ed PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If a judge or court strikes down a law or regulation, they say that it is illegal and end it. [US] The Supreme Court today struck down a law that prevents criminals from profiting from books or movies about their crimes. [VERB PARTICLE noun] strike off phrasal verb [usually passive] If someone such as a doctor or lawyer is struck off, their name is removed from the official register and they are not allowed to do medical or legal work any more. [British] ...a company lawyer who had been struck off for dishonest practices. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] He could be struck off the medical register. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] strike out 1. phrasal verb If you strike out, you begin to do something different, often because you want to become more independent. She wanted me to strike out on my own, buy a business. [VERB PARTICLE] ...a desire to make changes and to strike out in new directions. [VERB PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If you strike out at someone, you hit, attack, or speak angrily to them. He seemed always ready to strike out at anyone and for any cause. [VERB PARTICLE + at] Frampton struck out blindly, hitting not Waddington, but an elderly man. [VERB PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb If you strike out in a particular direction, you start travelling in that direction. [literary] They left the car and struck out along the muddy track. [VERB PARTICLE preposition/adverb] His team were the first to strike out for the mountain's summit. [VERB PARTICLE preposition/adverb] 4. ergative phrasal verb In baseball, if a pitcher strikes out a batter or if a batter strikes out, the batter fails to hit three balls thrown properly by the pitcher, and is out. He struck out ten batters, and allowed only two runs. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] Canseco, nursing a back injury, struck out. [VERB PARTICLE] 5. phrasal verb If someone strikes out, they fail. [US, informal] He was the firm's second lawyer. The first one had struck out completely. [VERB PARTICLE] 6. See also strike [sense 19] strike up 1. phrasal verb When you strike up a conversation or friendship with someone, you begin one. [written] I trailed her into Penney's and struck up a conversation. [VERB PARTICLE noun] James struck up a friendship with a small boy who owned a pony on the island. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] 2. phrasal verb When musicians strike up a piece of music, or when music strikes up, the music begins. And then the orchestra struck up the National Anthem. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Music struck up in one of the big old buildings along the seafront. [VERB PARTICLE] The band struck up, and riders paraded round the ring. [VERB PARTICLE] Idioms: strike gold to find, do or produce something that brings you a lot of money or success The company has struck gold with its new holiday development. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers lightning does not strike twice said to mean that someone who has been exceptionally lucky or unlucky is unlikely to have the same good or bad luck again Observers reckon he will be very lucky to repeat the performance. Lightning does not strike twice, particularly in big business. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers strike a chord to make you respond in an emotional way, for example by feeling sympathy or pleasure It is a case which has shocked America – and one which has struck a chord with every family with teenagers. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers strike a blow for something to do something which supports a cause or principle, or makes it more likely to succeed Her appointment would strike a blow for women's rights in Poland. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers strike while the iron is hot to act immediately, while you have the best chance of succeeding at something This is the week to get plans off the ground. It's time to strike while the iron is hot. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers strike oil to suddenly become successful in finding or doing something A new generation of high-tech billionaires struck oil in the information industries - computers, microchips and software. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers strike it rich to suddenly earn or win a large amount of money I've been thinking, prospecting might be just what we've been looking for: a quick way to strike it rich. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers strike sparks off each other [mainly British] if people who are trying to achieve something together strike sparks off each other, they react to each other in a very exciting or creative way It was a productive partnership, the two designers striking creative sparks off each other, ensuring whatever they worked on was fresh and edgy. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers strike lucky or strike it lucky to suddenly have some good luck I arrived at 12.30 to give myself time to find a parking meter, but struck lucky immediately. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: call a strike He had to persuade them not to call a strike in protest. Times, Sunday Times The union cannot legally call a strike over government plans for privatisation, but it can call action over specific workplace disputes. Times, Sunday Times When a trade union decides to call a strike, both employer and the union members lose money (and may damage the national economy). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Union officials eventually agreed not to call a strike for at least three years, and the plant reopened. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If he fails to stop it in time, the umpire will call a strike because he swung at the pitch. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Meanwhile Network Rail yesterday announced the threat of a crippling national rail strike had been avoided. The Sun (2010) Schools will be hit by crippling strikes after teaching unions vowed to press ahead with planned walkouts. The Sun (2013) New attempts to avert crippling public sector strikes have failed. The Sun (2011) In 1955, the parade was cancelled because of a national rail strike. The Sun (2016) Further regional action is planned in the autumn as well as a national strike before Christmas. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Most national strikes are official, whereas most local strikes are unofficial. Business Studies Basic Facts (1990) A nationwide steel strike, an auto strike, two coal strikes, and a railroad strike indirectly affected numerous other industries, causing shortages and layoffs. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions A nationwide strike by teachers and lawyers paralysed schools and court houses. Times, Sunday Times (2012) So we are going to have a nationwide postal strike. Times, Sunday Times (2009) The sale is a pre-emptive strike to appease competition regulators in Brussels, who have the power to block the takeover. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The resulting fear of attack will encourage the neighbours to pre-emptive strikes, which will in turn tempt the first group to strike against them and so on. Times, Sunday Times (2009) They hastily organised a pre-emptive strike. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The arms and legs are employed to strike the target zones of the opponent. Times, Sunday Times So long as the aim was good and the arrow flew true the archer would probably strike his target. Times, Sunday Times When ions strike the target, 23 electrons per ion are produced by secondary emission. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The ions pass through the accelerating electrode and strike the target. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The rocket had a maximum effective range of about 30 meters beyond which it became too inaccurate to reliably strike the target. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If you are single, love could strike suddenly, when you go along to an event just to make up the numbers. The Sun But shareholder activists can strike suddenly. Times, Sunday Times Fictional earthquakes tend to strike suddenly and without warning. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They may strike suddenly and at a high speed, to the side as easily as forwards, before returning quickly to the defensive position, ready to strike again. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Passion strikes suddenly as someone with an unforgettable voice asks for your opinion. The Sun For some parents, the words common entrance examination will strike terror into their fainting soul. Times, Sunday Times This will delight her fans and strike terror into the hearts of her rivals. Times, Sunday Times They then place upon any publication successfully sued for libel potential costs so ruinous as to strike terror into the hearts of those with important truths to tell. Times, Sunday Times Almost a century has passed since the fanged count first struck terror into the hearts of movie audiences. Times, Sunday Times Thankfully, the climate has changed and those bosses who once struck terror into our very souls have (by and large) disappeared. The Sun But the firm called the strike threat 'disproportionate'. The Sun True, a retail offer and a strike threat complicated things. Times, Sunday Times The strike threat, which could paralyse the industry, comes amid growing fears of another, bigger walkout by up to 10,000 offshore rig workers. Times, Sunday Times The strike threat was made after plans were announced to cut the staff's pension pot by 4 million a year. Times, Sunday Times It demands negotiations without preconditions while holding patients' health to ransom with a strike threat. Times, Sunday Times It'll probably threaten a strike — more lovely days of. Times, Sunday Times More woe from the local museums, which are threatening a strike because of 150,000 in cuts. Times, Sunday Times The leader of the junior doctors threatening a strike over unsocial hours and pay also runs a photography business. Times, Sunday Times Unions are threatening a strike ballot. The Sun This and other media coverage helped to fuel the myth that the underside of bridges or overpasses are good shelters when a tornado strikes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Fractures are the second most common injury obtained after a tornado strikes and account for up to 30% of total injuries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Before a tornado strikes an area, the wind has been known to die down and the air to become very still. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If tragedy strikes, money is the last thing you or your loved ones want to be worrying about. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Tragedy strikes at an illegal dance party when the roof collapses! The Sun (2008) Some people virtually disappear when tragedy strikes. Christianity Today (2000) The government could face a legal challenge to its plans to introduce a threshold on union strike ballots. Times, Sunday Times Or do general elections not have to be held to the same high standards as union strike ballots? Times, Sunday Times Ministers insisted that they had held firm on issues such as secondary picketing and changes to union strike law. Times, Sunday Times Nearly 12,000 schools were totally unaffected by the union strike over cuts. The Sun This has led to better facilities, but also to student unrest and contributed to a teaching assistant union strike. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 罢工, 打击, 罢工, 打击 Japanese: ストライキ, 打つ, 襲う, ストライキをする |
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