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单词 hit-and-run
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Definition of hit-and-run in English:

hit-and-run

adjectiveˌhɪt(ə)nˈrʌn
  • 1Denoting or relating to a motor accident in which the vehicle involved does not stop.

    a man on a bicycle had been struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Detectives have released images from CCTV cameras to help track down witnesses to a deliberate hit-and-run attack in Keighley.
    • Counter-batterers await an attack and then play cat-and-mouse with hit-and-run mortar squads.
    • American forces have been dogged by hit-and-run attacks by small groups of fighters.
    • His supporters, retaining a hit-and-run capability in the east, have been attacking the Tigers.
    • While the hit-and-run tactic is still used, the guerrilla expands the base area and strengthens his control over that section of territory.
    • By the mid-1980s, the Kurdish resistance was reduced from a mass movement to a number of guerrilla bands carrying out hit-and-run raids.
    • Sometimes they will ally amongst themselves against you and launch hit-and-run attacks on coastal cities.
    • Although the Hmong were effective at guerrilla-style hit-and-run actions, they were ill prepared to conduct a static defense against overwhelming odds.
    • Boyd doesn't have the guts to face us in person, and he will never be heard from again after the hit-and-run attack on us he made this morning.
    • They are capable of nothing more than hit-and-run attacks.
    • In addition, many robbers make many hit-and-run attacks and then disappear which adds to the difficulties faced by the police.
    • But it is surprising that both the Pentagon and the American public seem to have been taken aback by the hit-and-run attacks.
    • But others have been crude hit-and-run attacks and in some cases even Quixotic charges by lightly armed men on armored vehicles.
    • We were able to conduct hit-and-run attacks on enemy supply points with relative impunity.
    • Days and days of hit-and-run attacks on Alliance convoys were starting to take their toll on Enygma Trigent and Daemon Squadron.
    • These tenacious guerrillas come from Chechnya, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, and they use classical guerrilla hit-and-run tactics.
    1. 1.1 Denoting or relating to a swift attack followed by immediate withdrawal.
      a hit-and-run guerrilla war in the streets
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Please also note that both of these pieces require rather more time/attention/concentration than your average hit-and-run blogramble.
      • It is a great idea for a hit-and-run minute, but grows rather cumbersome over four.
      • Free entry and exit enables a potential entrant to adopt hit-and-run behaviour whenever the incumbent shows any signs of making above-normal profits.
      • The technique was based on the hit-and-run, gene-targeting technology developed by Allan Bradley at Baylor College of Medicine.
    2. 1.2 Done or intended for quickness of effect rather than for permanency.
      hit-and-run agents who sign rookies to huge bonuses and buy themselves getaway cars
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A builder who was the victim of a hit-and-run accident in Heckmondwike is still in hospital.
      • Police are to examine video tapes in two speed cameras in an attempt to track a driver involved in a hit-and-run in Heckmondwike.
      • He was the victim of a hit-and-run accident, which the police are investigating parallel to Alexander's investigation of his past.
      • Ali, 14, had lost his right leg above the knee in a hit-and-run traffic accident seven years earlier.
      • In another development, a 27-year-old man was killed by a hit-and-run motor vehicle in Kapiri Mposhi on Tuesday.
      • A pedestrian is critically ill in hospital after being involved in a hit-and-run accident in South Yorkshire.
      • The victim of a fatal hit-and-run accident in the New Forest was a former policeman, the Daily Echo can reveal.
      • He was killed in a hit-and-run accident after stopping to fix a flat tire on the interstate near Hillsborough.
      • Among other things, he has allegedly been involved in four hit-and-run accidents, for which he has never been charged.
      • Martins begins to seek out answers to Lime's death and is told by the witness that it was a hit-and-run accident.
      • The daughter of a woman killed in a hit-and-run accident has called for the driver to come forward.
      • This hit-and-run accident didn't have to happen.
      • To date, Gardaí have never been able to confirm whether he was murdered or the victim of a hit-and-run accident.
      • The daughter of a woman killed in a hit-and-run accident has renewed her call to catch the driver of the stolen car.
      • Later that week, a migrant worker died in what was officially called a hit-and-run accident.
      • The family of a man critically injured in a hit-and-run accident have told of their anger after the uninsured driver avoided jail.
      • But instead his family are appealing for information about the driver who killed him in a hit-and-run accident.
      • The daughter of a biker who was killed in a hit-and-run accident has thanked the people who stopped to help her father.
      • The hit-and-run accident involving Phillip had shaken the local police force to the core.
      • In New Orleans, Louisiana, I was once the victim of a hit-and-run accident.
    3. 1.3Baseball Designating an offensive play in which a base runner, not attempting to steal a base, runs before the pitch is thrown, in an attempt to advance further in case of a hit.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Lopes did not order a lot of steals or hit-and-run plays in spring exhibitions, but he might have been trying not to tip his hand.
      • They showed off their speed in a hurry with Pierre leading off with a bunt single and Luis Castillo following with a hit-and-run single.
      • He has phenomenal instincts, superb technique and just enough quickness to get perfect jumps on hit-and-run singles.
      • One time he put the hit-and-run on with the bases loaded.
      • The Angels lead the majors in hit-and-run attempts and stolen bases, though they also run into more outs than most clubs.
 
 

Definition of hit-and-run in US English:

hit-and-run

adjective
  • 1Denoting or relating to a swift attack followed by immediate withdrawal.

    a hit-and-run guerrilla war in the streets
    Example sentencesExamples
    • These tenacious guerrillas come from Chechnya, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, and they use classical guerrilla hit-and-run tactics.
    • American forces have been dogged by hit-and-run attacks by small groups of fighters.
    • But it is surprising that both the Pentagon and the American public seem to have been taken aback by the hit-and-run attacks.
    • They are capable of nothing more than hit-and-run attacks.
    • Boyd doesn't have the guts to face us in person, and he will never be heard from again after the hit-and-run attack on us he made this morning.
    • Although the Hmong were effective at guerrilla-style hit-and-run actions, they were ill prepared to conduct a static defense against overwhelming odds.
    • His supporters, retaining a hit-and-run capability in the east, have been attacking the Tigers.
    • Counter-batterers await an attack and then play cat-and-mouse with hit-and-run mortar squads.
    • Detectives have released images from CCTV cameras to help track down witnesses to a deliberate hit-and-run attack in Keighley.
    • Sometimes they will ally amongst themselves against you and launch hit-and-run attacks on coastal cities.
    • Days and days of hit-and-run attacks on Alliance convoys were starting to take their toll on Enygma Trigent and Daemon Squadron.
    • In addition, many robbers make many hit-and-run attacks and then disappear which adds to the difficulties faced by the police.
    • But others have been crude hit-and-run attacks and in some cases even Quixotic charges by lightly armed men on armored vehicles.
    • While the hit-and-run tactic is still used, the guerrilla expands the base area and strengthens his control over that section of territory.
    • We were able to conduct hit-and-run attacks on enemy supply points with relative impunity.
    • By the mid-1980s, the Kurdish resistance was reduced from a mass movement to a number of guerrilla bands carrying out hit-and-run raids.
    1. 1.1 Done or intended for quickness of effect rather than for permanency.
      hit-and-run agents who sign rookies to huge bonuses and buy themselves getaway cars
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The technique was based on the hit-and-run, gene-targeting technology developed by Allan Bradley at Baylor College of Medicine.
      • Free entry and exit enables a potential entrant to adopt hit-and-run behaviour whenever the incumbent shows any signs of making above-normal profits.
      • It is a great idea for a hit-and-run minute, but grows rather cumbersome over four.
      • Please also note that both of these pieces require rather more time/attention/concentration than your average hit-and-run blogramble.
    2. 1.2 Denoting or relating to a motor accident in which the vehicle involved does not stop.
      a man on a bicycle had been struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In another development, a 27-year-old man was killed by a hit-and-run motor vehicle in Kapiri Mposhi on Tuesday.
      • Police are to examine video tapes in two speed cameras in an attempt to track a driver involved in a hit-and-run in Heckmondwike.
      • The daughter of a woman killed in a hit-and-run accident has called for the driver to come forward.
      • To date, Gardaí have never been able to confirm whether he was murdered or the victim of a hit-and-run accident.
      • Among other things, he has allegedly been involved in four hit-and-run accidents, for which he has never been charged.
      • Martins begins to seek out answers to Lime's death and is told by the witness that it was a hit-and-run accident.
      • The family of a man critically injured in a hit-and-run accident have told of their anger after the uninsured driver avoided jail.
      • But instead his family are appealing for information about the driver who killed him in a hit-and-run accident.
      • A builder who was the victim of a hit-and-run accident in Heckmondwike is still in hospital.
      • A pedestrian is critically ill in hospital after being involved in a hit-and-run accident in South Yorkshire.
      • He was the victim of a hit-and-run accident, which the police are investigating parallel to Alexander's investigation of his past.
      • The daughter of a biker who was killed in a hit-and-run accident has thanked the people who stopped to help her father.
      • This hit-and-run accident didn't have to happen.
      • Later that week, a migrant worker died in what was officially called a hit-and-run accident.
      • In New Orleans, Louisiana, I was once the victim of a hit-and-run accident.
      • Ali, 14, had lost his right leg above the knee in a hit-and-run traffic accident seven years earlier.
      • The daughter of a woman killed in a hit-and-run accident has renewed her call to catch the driver of the stolen car.
      • The hit-and-run accident involving Phillip had shaken the local police force to the core.
      • He was killed in a hit-and-run accident after stopping to fix a flat tire on the interstate near Hillsborough.
      • The victim of a fatal hit-and-run accident in the New Forest was a former policeman, the Daily Echo can reveal.
    3. 1.3Baseball Designating an offensive play in which a base runner, not attempting to steal a base, runs before the pitch is thrown, in an attempt to advance further in case of a hit.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Angels lead the majors in hit-and-run attempts and stolen bases, though they also run into more outs than most clubs.
      • One time he put the hit-and-run on with the bases loaded.
      • He has phenomenal instincts, superb technique and just enough quickness to get perfect jumps on hit-and-run singles.
      • Lopes did not order a lot of steals or hit-and-run plays in spring exhibitions, but he might have been trying not to tip his hand.
      • They showed off their speed in a hurry with Pierre leading off with a bunt single and Luis Castillo following with a hit-and-run single.
 
 
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