| 释义 |
strike at the root (or roots) ofAffect in a vital area with potentially destructive results: the proposals struck at the roots of community life...- I see the ability to be alone in the wild as an achievement, something truly radical that strikes at the root of our increasingly presumptuous levels of socialization.
- But, he went on to say that the recent events ‘are of far greater concern because they strike at the roots of our free society, one aspect of which is our market-driven economy’.
- The objective is to strike at the root of psychosomatic problems.
See parent entry: root |