| 词组 | strike, struck, stricken |
| 释义 | strike, struck, stricken Struck is the past tense of strike ("The clock struck twelve"), and in most contexts it also functions as its past participle ("The tree was struck by lightning"). The alternative participle stricken is used when strike has the sense "to afflict suddenly": • ... was stricken with ileitis in June 1956 —Current Biography, April 1968 • ... with so much devilry having stricken the life of Mrs. MacNeil —Keith S. Felton, Los Angeles Times Book Rev., 23 May 1971 It is also common for the sense "to cancel or delete": • ... have certain of their remarks modified or stricken from the record —Andy Logan, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 1971 • ... the term "false alarm" has been stricken from the vocabulary —Harper's, June 1972 And stricken has several familiar adjectival uses as well: • With several stricken faces looking at him —Nancy Milford, Harper's, January 1969 • ... blew up two 100,000-barrel oil storage tanks • The two stricken tanks were 15 per cent full —Lawrence Mosher, National Observer, 28 Apr. 1973 Other uses of stricken are rare, and they tend to have an unidiomatic ring: • I am still stricken by McComb's and Mangin's classic City Hall and its calm exterior —Gilbert Mill-stein, N.Y. Times Mag., 30 Nov. 1975 |
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