strain
n. 紧张, 拉紧, 张力, 过劳, 扭伤, 血缘, 种, 族, 气质, 曲调, 旋律, 口吻 vt. 使劳累, 拉紧, 过分使用, 扭伤, 滥用, 曲解, 滤 vi. 尽力, 努力, 紧拉, 弯曲, 被滤出
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Race; lineage, pedigree.
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A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
株
生物They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.
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3.
Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
比喻There is a strain of madness in her family.
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Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
媒体 音乐A baby gurgled, a photographer dropped her lens cap, and the strains of the U.S. Army Brass Quintet echoed off the murals depicting seminal moments in American history.
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Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
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A kind or sort (of person etc.).
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Treasure.
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The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
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The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
可数 不可数If the Menai Bridge, for instance, were loaded at that rate, the entire strain on the main chains would be about 2000 tons ; while the chains containing 260 square inches of iron would bear, at 9 tons per square inch, 2340 tons, without stretching ...
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A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
可数 不可数he jumped up with a strain
the strain upon the sailboat's rigging
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An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
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A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
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The track of a deer.
可数 废旧 不可数
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To hold tightly, to clasp.
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To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
及物to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship
Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
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3.
To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
及物The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
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To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
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To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
及物/不及物Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
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To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
及物to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
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To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
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To percolate; to be filtered.
不及物water straining through a sandy soil
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To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
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To urge with importunity; to press.
及物to strain a petition or invitation
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To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
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To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.
废旧A man straineth, liveth, then dieth.
Man, look at that cat straining that kitty.
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From Middle English streen, strene, streon, istreon (“race, stock, generation”), from Old English strēon, ġestrēon (“gain, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *streuną (“heap, treasure, profit, gain”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread, strew”) (cognate with Old Saxon gistriuni, Old High German gistriuni (“gain, property, wealth, business”), Latin strues (“heap”)). Confused in Middle English with the related noun strend, strynd, strund, from Old English strȳnd (“race; stock”), from strēonan, strȳnan (“to beget; acquire”). Related also to Dutch struinen (“to prowl, root about, rout”).
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