| 单词 | to strike a stroke |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto strike a stroke a. intransitive. To make a stroke with the limbs in swimming. Also to strike forward, out. Also transitive in to strike a stroke. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > swim > make a stroke in swimming strike1660 1660 R. Wild Iter Boreale 9 [He] Flings out his arms and strikes some strokes to swim. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 51 Finding the Water had spent it self,..I strook forward against the Return of the Waves. 1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. i. ix. 36 It bore me up in such a manner, that when I struck in swimming, my legs were above the water. 1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. x. 28 Through the blue Immense, Strike out all swimmers! 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. ii. 26 His first impulse on rising to the surface..was to strike out for the shore. 1888 ‘S. Tytler’ Blackhall Ghosts II. xxi. 183 He..struck out, and swam for a few yards. < as lemmas |
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