thunderstrike

雷击, 使楞住[吓呆]

词形变化

thunderstrikes 复数 thunderstrikes thunderstricken thunderstrikes 三单 thunderstriking thunderstriking 现在分词 thunderstruck 过去式 thunderstricken 过去式 thunderstricken 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The striking of lightning.

v.
  1. 1.

    To strike, blast, or injure by, or as if by, lightning.

    古体 及物

    1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 3, London: Henrie Fetherstone, Book 4, Chapter 9, § 1, p. 738, And such Warres haue made impressions into all our Neighbour Countries […] haue lightened on Turkie and blasted the Seraglio; haue thunder-stricken Barbarie, haue torne the Atlas there,

    1717, Joseph Addison (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 2, “The Story of Phaeton,” p. 48, At once from Life, and from the Chariot driv’n, Th’ ambitious Boy fell Thunder-struck from Heav’n.

  2. 2.

    To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible.

    古体 比喻 及物

词源

From thunder + strike.

来源:wiktionary