| 单词 | strike out |
| 释义 | strike out 1. phrasal verb If you strike out, you begin to do something different, often because you want to become more independent. She wanted me to strike out on my own, buy a business. [VERB PARTICLE] ...a desire to make changes and to strike out in new directions. [VERB PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If you strike out at someone, you hit, attack, or speak angrily to them. He seemed always ready to strike out at anyone and for any cause. [VERB PARTICLE + at] Frampton struck out blindly, hitting not Waddington, but an elderly man. [VERB PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb If you strike out in a particular direction, you start travelling in that direction. [literary] They left the car and struck out along the muddy track. [VERB PARTICLE preposition/adverb] His team were the first to strike out for the mountain's summit. [VERB PARTICLE preposition/adverb] 4. ergative phrasal verb In baseball, if a pitcher strikes out a batter or if a batter strikes out, the batter fails to hit three balls thrown properly by the pitcher, and is out. He struck out ten batters, and allowed only two runs. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] Canseco, nursing a back injury, struck out. [VERB PARTICLE] 5. phrasal verb If someone strikes out, they fail. [US, informal] He was the firm's second lawyer. The first one had struck out completely. [VERB PARTICLE] 6. See also strike [sense 19] See full dictionary entry for strike |
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