| 单词 | to strike down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto strike down to strike down 1. transitive. To fell (a person or animal) to the ground with a blow. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > knock down > specifically a person or animal fellOE to strike down1470 quell1535 to run down1587 to trip (also turn, tumble, kick, etc.) up a person's heels1587 to strike up the heels of1602 level1770 silence1785 grass1814 send1822 to send to grass1845 beef1926 deck1953 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xxiii. 249 With his grete force he stroke doune that knyghte. c1560 Hunting Cheviot in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 308 Many sterne the strocke done streght. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. C2 Or what fond begger, but to touch the crowne, Would with the scepter straight be stroken down ? View more context for this quotation 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 146 I was so exasperated by the pain of my ear..that, in the first transport, I struck him down. 1890 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone xxi Burt..struck him down with a life-preserver. 1892 Temple Bar Nov. 355 The Constitutionalists..saw the sword of a conqueror ready to strike them down. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > subject to chemical reactions or processes [verb (transitive)] > subject to named chemical reaction or process > subject to precipitation to strike down1594 precipitate1644 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 79 Dissolue some Sal Armoniacke, in some good Aquafortis, whose fæces..haue beene first striken down with some fine siluer. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or act of kneeling > kneel or assume kneeling posture [verb (intransitive)] > assume kneeling posture to bend, bow, drop, fold, put the (one's) kneec950 kneec1000 to sit on one's kneesOE to sit downa1450 to strike down1616 1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale v. 332 Th' whole armie veild their pikes, soldiers and officers on knees down strikes, while hee rode vp and downe. 4. Of the sun: To send down its heat oppressively. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > be hot [verb (intransitive)] > send down heat (of sun) to strike down1907 1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo App. i. 321 The sun strikes down very fiercely towards midday. 5. transitive. To hold invalid (chiefly in legal contexts). U.S. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > illegality > render illegal [verb (transitive)] > deprive of legal validity > deny the validity of quash?a1400 disable1548 infirm1558 overrule1611 null1656 to set aside1765 to strike down1894 1894 Congress. Rec. 12 Dec. 267/1 I do not care who strikes down class legislation in this country. 1951 Federal Reporter (1952) 2nd Ser. 193 250/2 The court's opinions make abundantly clear its intention to strike down the entire arrangement. 1964 Mod. Law Rev. 28 iii. 343 Their main agreement had been struck down by the Restrictive Practices Court. 1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 3 Oct. 4 c/2 The decision..struck down a..Superior Court ruling. to strike down a. Nautical. To lower or take down (a sail, mast, yard, etc.); esp. to lower (the topsail) as a salute and (more rarely) as a sign of surrender in an engagement. Phrase, to strike sail. to strike a hull (see 1856 at ahull adv.). Also to strike down. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > strike or take in (sails) strikea1300 main1517 hand1625 douse1626 to shake off1627 muzzle1883 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > lower yard, mast, or sail strikea1300 cale1652 a1300 K. Horn (Cambr.) 1013 Hi strike seil & maste & Ankere gunne caste. 1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles iv. 80 For ne had þei striked a strake and sterid hem þe better, And abated a bonet or þe blast come. c1440 Bone Flor. 1864 Then beganne the storme to ryse,..They stroke the sayle. 1524 Inform. Pilgr. Holy Land (Roxb.) c iv b So they saylled forth..& neuer stryked saylle tyll they came to port Iaffe. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xii. sig. M5 Now strike your sailes yee iolly Mariners, For we be come vnto a quiet rode. c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 13 By that they had some 3 peeces bestowed on them they stroke saile, yealdinge themselves unto the mercie of our Generall. 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Bvjv They vaile their bonnet low, And strike their top-saile in submissiue dutie. 1611 Bible (King James) Acts xxvii. 17 They vsed helps,..and fearing lest they should fall into the quicke-sands, strake saile, and so were driuen. View more context for this quotation 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 28 Strike your top masts to the cap. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 56 He must..strike a Hull that you may not descry him by his sailes. 1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) ii. 8 The Marriners stroke Saile and submitted. 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 104 So when we take downe the top-masts, they say, Strike them downe. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 296 Both Ships struck their Yards and Top masts. 1769 Ann. Reg. 1768 92 A body of sailors..proceeded..to Sunderland.., and at the cross there read a paper, setting forth their grievances... After this they went on board the several ships in that harbour, and struck (lowered down) their yards, in order to prevent them from proceeding to sea. 1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) ii. 60 Now some to strike top-gallant yards attend. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xii. 96 Fain to strike the galley's yard, And take them to the oar. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxii. 220 The royal yards were then struck. 1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. II. xxi. 181 His maintopmast was struck, that is, sent down on deck. 1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 179 The custom of ‘striking’ or lowering a sail [as a salute] has almost died out. to strike down a. Nautical. To lower (a thing) into the hold by means of a rope and tackle. Chiefly to strike down (also absol.). Also, to strike out, to hoist out from the hold and lower to the dock. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > lower into hold strike1644 1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. 104 When we lower any thing into the howld with the tackles or any other roape, we call it Striking-down into Howld. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. v. 56 Each Captain had orders..to strike down some of their great guns into the hold. 1850 H. Melville White-jacket xxxvii. 183 To the..consternation of the sailors, an order now came from the quarter-deck to ‘strike the strangers down into the main-hold!’ c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 71 The fore hatchway, for striking down or hoisting up stores in the fore part of the ship. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Strike down! the order to lower casks, &c., into the hold. 1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. II. xxi. 181 He had struck the long gun forward down below. to strike down ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > lower or let down > specifically the rope or chain of a crane strike1530 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > lower or let down > by mechanical means to turn down1551 parbuckle1768 to strike down1778 to hoist down1794 to jack down1893 to wind down1961 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 739/2 I stryke, I let downe the crane, je lache... Stryke lowe. 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis Expl. Terms 329/1 Strîk, to strîk or streeck down, or strike down; is to let a man down in a Shaft by the windlass. to strike down a. transitive. Of lightning, thunder, a thunderbolt: To descend violently upon and blast (a person or thing). Frequently in pass, constr. by, with, rarely of. Also to strike down. ΚΠ c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxi. 140 We ware oft tymes striken doune to þe erthe with grete hidous blastez. c1480 (a1400) St. Agnes 312 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 355 He gert thonnir & fire-slacht stirk done þe payanis þar stracht. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 28 The thonder bolt..stryketh downe steples, and hyghe buildynges. 1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things vi. 140 Bodyes that are strucken with lyghtning, doo remayne vncorrupt. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone iii. vii. sig. H2 Some serene blast me, or dire lightning strike This my offending face. View more context for this quotation 1663 R. Bayfield Τῆς Ἰατρικῆς Κάρτος 67 Cardanus reports of eight Mowers, which supping under an Oak were struck with thunder. a1718 M. Prior Engraven on Column in Poems (1905) 206 Tho' Lightning strike the Dome again. 1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 121 The house had been struck with lightning. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Satia in Poems & Ballads 37 I wish you were stricken of thunder. to strike down a. To bring suffering or death upon (a person, etc.) as with a blow; to afflict suddenly (with, by sickness, infirmity, death), esp. as a punishment. Also, to strike down. (Said chiefly of God or a deity.) ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [verb (transitive)] > punish curse1382 strikec1480 plague1481 society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (intransitive)] strikec1480 to do justice on (also upon)1587 society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] slayc1175 to put to deatha1450 to hang, draw, and quarter1465 strikec1480 execute1483 justify1531 execution1565 scaffold1716 to have or get one's gruel1797 the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] > afflict > fall upon with adverse effect to come on ——OE strikec1480 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > of environmental or supernatural factors smitea1382 strikec1480 blasta1533 perisha1549 thunderstrike1613 siderate1623 to strike dead, blind1750 c1480 (a1400) St. Justina 287 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 160 [The master devil said] sic lustful het sal be hir in, & eftyr hyr stirke sal I nere wodnes & frenesy. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 739/1 You shall se God stryke them when he seys hys tyme. 1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms lxxviii. 66 With Emrods in the hinder parts he strake his enimies all. 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 127 Ananias and Saphira wes strukin be ane word of Petir to the deth. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 35 For lamb, pig and calfe..tithe so, as thy cattle, the Lord doo not strike. a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1594) 333 When God stroke Zacharias, he made him dumbe, but not deafe. c1610–15 Life St. Frideswide in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 82 God in defence of his spouse [St. Frideswide] stroke them with blyndnes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. i. 10 Gods,..so had you saued The noble Imogen, to repent, and strooke Me (wretch) more worth your Vengeance. View more context for this quotation 1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 123 He strikes..where the sinner least dreames to be strucken. 1870 J. Bruce Gideon iii. 59 Heavily the hand of the Lord had stricken him. to strike down b. Of a disease, etc.: To attack or afflict (a person) suddenly; to make infirm, lay low. Chiefly passive. To be attacked by, with (a disease). Also, to strike down. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > affect with disease [verb (transitive)] > attack ofseche?c1225 takec1300 smitea1325 strike1530 infest1542 assault1594 attack1665 grip1818 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 739/2 He was stryken with the plage as he stode in his dore. 1602 W. Leigh Soules Solace in W. Harrison Deaths Advantage (ed. 2) 21 It may be some go to bed who neuer rise, strooken with a deadly sleepe or lethargie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. i. 14 Now the Red Pestilence strike al Trades in Rome. View more context for this quotation 1653 H. More Antidote against Atheism in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) iii. vii. §9 107 She was so struck in her fits that six men or more could not hold her. 1789 New London Mag. Oct. 510/2 The Earl was struck with death while drinking his coffee. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. v. 259 Hot old Marquis Mirabeau, lies stricken down, at Argenteuil. 1860 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 21 ii. 554 About 60 out of 280, chiefly shearlings, were struck with a chill. 1878 R. H. Hutton Scott xvii. 174 The climate struck him down, and he died at Teheran. 1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon II. 199 The Duke had been stricken by paralysis. < as lemmas |
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