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单词 strike a blow
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to strike a blow
b. figurative. to strike a blow: to make an attack, take vigorous action. So, to strike the first blow. without striking a blow: without a struggle.
ΘΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > take vigorous action
to strike a blow1790
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > make a beginning in some enterprise
beginc1200
to break the ice?1553
to break (the) ground1709
to set (or start) the ball rolling1770
to strike the first blow1849
1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. II. 211 A good blow might be struck here.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxxv. 102 Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 542 Deputies, without whose consent no great blow could be struck.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 261 But neither side dared to strike the first blow.
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to strike (a person) a blow
a. transitive. To deal (a person, an animal) a blow; to hit with some force either with the hand or with a weapon. Also with double object to strike (a person) a blow.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object
drepeOE
smitec1200
buffet?c1225
strike1377
rapa1400
seta1400
frontc1400
ballc1450
throw1488
to bear (a person) a blow1530
fetch1556
douse1559
knetcha1564
slat1577
to hit any one a blow1597
wherret1599
alapate1609
shock1614
baske1642
measure1652
plump1785
jow1802
nobble1841
scuff1841
clump1864
bust1873
plonk1874
to sock it to1877
dot1881
biff1888
dong1889
slosh1890
to soak it to1892
to cop (a person) one1898
poke1906
to hang one on1908
bop1931
clonk1949
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > stroke with weapon > strike with a weapon [verb (transitive)]
areach1014
maulc1225
hitc1275
smitec1275
reachc1330
strike1377
to cut over1867
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 14 Al-þough þow stryke me with þi staffe with stikke or with ȝerde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12429 Þe maister..Gaf iesu wit hand a strak; For he him strak wit na resun, Ded in þe place þar fell he dun.
1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 283 Socrates walkenge in a cite, and strynken [sic; Trevisa evel i-smete on the heed; L. colapho percussus] of a symple felowe.
1556 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 255 Thomas Cartwright..offered to stricke with the mase certen of the defendants.
1582 Bible (Rheims) Matt. xxvi. 68 And other smote his face with the palmes of their hands, saying, Prophecie vnto vs O Christ: who is he that strooke thee?
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1616) sig. E Cursed be hee that stroke his holinesse a blow [on] the face.
1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 140 Laying 'em flat on their Belly, and stricking them with a Rope across the Breech.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i 'Till he yowl'd sair she strak the poor dumb tyke.
1824 Examiner 539/2 [He] struck the boy a violent blow.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlix. 435 You may strike me if you like, Sir, or hit any cruel blow.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. xxxviii. 44 Glanydon..forgetting that he was a captive, had once struck in the face a Prætorian officer who insulted him.
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