strain

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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

发音

US /stɹeɪn/
其它 /stɹeɪn/

词形变化

strains 复数 strains 三单 straining 现在分词 strained 过去式 strained 过去分词

释义与例句

n. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    Race; lineage, pedigree.

    古体
  2. 2.

    A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.

    生物

    They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.

  3. 3.

    Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.

    比喻

    There is a strain of madness in her family.

  4. 4.

    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.

  5. 5.

    Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.

  6. 6.

    A kind or sort (of person etc.).

    罕用
  7. 7.

    Treasure.

    废旧
  8. 8.

    The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.

    废旧
  9. 1.

    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 ...

  10. 2.

    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

  11. 3.

    An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.

    可数 不可数
  12. 4.

    A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.

    不可数 工程 可数
  13. 5.

    The track of a deer.

    可数 废旧 不可数
v. B2
  1. 1.

    To hold tightly, to clasp.

    废旧 及物
  2. 2.

    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.

  3. 3.

    To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.

    及物

    The gale strained the timbers of the ship.

  4. 4.

    To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.

    及物
  5. 5.

    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.

  6. 6.

    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

  7. 7.

    To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.

    过滤

    及物
  8. 8.

    To percolate; to be filtered.

    不及物

    water straining through a sandy soil

  9. 9.

    To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.

    及物
  10. 10.

    To urge with importunity; to press.

    及物

    to strain a petition or invitation

  11. 11.

    To hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.

    及物
  12. 1.

    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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词源

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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