■ strike

1) 以某个想法为主语，人作宾语，表示这个人心中冒出了这个想法（属于瞬时动作，第四类动词，主宾地位同中文相反）。

• A sudden thought struck me.我心中忽然出现一个的想法。
• Inspiration struck me in the shower.我洗淋浴时灵机一动。
• The funny side of the situation struck me afterwards.事后我想起了那事情古怪的一面。

英文这种同中文主宾颠倒的用法，不限于 strike 一个动词，还有其他一些动词或动词词组也有这样的情况。

• Unaccountably something he had read years earlier came to his mind again.不知怎的，他多年前读到过的一些话，现在又想了起来。
• A great sense of peacefulness came over me, impossible to describe in words.我心中一阵非常安详的心情，无法用言语来形容。
• It crossed his mind that he was getting overtired.他猛然又想到，自己过分劳累了。
• Then the realization came to him that there might be a choice, after all.于是他就想到，总会有一个选择吧。

2) 以某件事情为主语，人作宾语，表示这件事情“触动”这个人，给了他某种印象（属于延续状态，第一类动词）。

• How did she strike you?你觉得她怎么样？（千万不要误解为：她是怎样打你的？）
• She struck Paul as lazy.保尔觉得她很懒惰。
• It strikes me as odd.我觉得很奇怪。
• Only later it struck me as unusual.直到后来，我才觉得那很不平常。
• It doesn't strike me as being the best course of action.我觉得这并非上策。
• We can eat here and meet them later, how does that strike you?咱们可以在这里吃，晚些再同他们见面，你看怎么样？
• I wasn't very struck with (American English "by") his colleague.我对他那位同事的印象不怎么样。

3) 达成某协议或某种平衡局面（瞬时动作，第四类动词）。

• I'll strike a deal with them.我要同他们达成一宗交易。
• It's not easy to strike a balance between too much and too little freedom.自由过多或者过少，不容易在两者之间平衡。

4) 遇到好运气或财物（第四类动词）。

• strike gold发现黄金
• strike oil找到石油
• strike uranium找到铀矿
• strike it lucky交上好运
• strike it rich发财。

5) strike 的现在分词 striking 已经成为纯粹的形容词，意思是“引人注目的”、“有吸引力的”。

• a striking woman一位漂亮动人的女士
• The most striking feature of the report is...该报告最引人注意之处是…

但是 striking distance 是“很短的距离”。

• She lives within striking distance of London.她就住在伦敦不远处。