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单词 strike back
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to strike back
e. to strike back: to light or flash back (flash v.1 9c).
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1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. s.v. Bunsen Burner Occasionally the burner ‘strikes back’—i.e. the gas catches light and burns inside the tube.
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to strike back
figurative. To carry out an aggressive or injurious action. to strike back, to hit back, retaliate. Originally U.S.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > take or execute revenge [verb (intransitive)] > retaliate
reharm1592
retaliate1640
to strike back1959
1959 Time 17 Aug. 60/3 The nation's mature citizens are merely striking back at rock'n'roll, buying the sing-alongs.
1960 Time 4 July 51/3 Where will Edna Ferber strike next?
1968 L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 223 ‘The Herring Mavin Strikes Again!’ proclaimed the caption. The picture showed an empty jar.
1970 J. Porter (title) Dover strikes again.
1975 Daily Mirror 14 Apr. 5/4 The rapist who is terrorising a city's bed-sitter girls struck again yesterday.
1980 (title of film) The Empire strikes back.
1989 Mod. Painters Autumn 30/1 Jules Lubbock struck back against ascriptions of this sort a year ago.
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