| 单词 | striking |
| 释义 | striking (once / 134 pages) adjn Something striking grabs your attention because it’s vivid and surprising. Many twins have a striking resemblance. People in red satin evening gowns, the pyramids in Egypt, and platform heels with fish in them are also striking. Anything striking is hard not to notice; it almost hits, or strikes, you with surprise, like a toddler in a tuxedo. People can be striking, and so can landscapes — one of the most striking sights in the world is the Grand Canyon, which is why so many people visit just to look at it. Non-visual things can be striking too, like a striking thought that makes you shout, “Eureka!” WORD FAMILYstriking: strikingly, strikingness, strikings+/counterstrike: counterstrikes/stricken: strickenly/strike: counterstrike, stricken, striker, strikes, striking/striker: strikers USAGE EXAMPLESIts visible geothermal features are nowhere near as striking as Yellowstone’s geysers and consist mainly of above-ground, pungent smelling sulphur springs. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Coventry police say the woman slipped Friday night and the gun she was carrying discharged, striking her. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Compared with forebears such as these, what is striking about Trump is how little he engages, at least explicitly, with questions of culture and identity. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj having a quality that thrusts itself into attention a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center a striking resemblance between parent and child Syn outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular conspicuous obvious to the eye or mind 2adj sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect his striking good looks always created a sensation Syn dramatic, spectacular impressive making a strong or vivid impression 3n the physical coming together of two or more things Syn|Hypo|Hyper contact, impinging collision, hit (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together engagement, interlocking, mesh, meshingcontact by fitting together flicka light sharp contact (usually with something flexible) impactthe striking of one body against another touch, touchingthe event of something coming in contact with the body blow, bumpan impact (as from a collision) slama forceful impact that makes a loud noise brush, light touchmomentary contact strokea light touch happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent an event that happens 4n the act of contacting one thing with another Syn|Hypo|Hyper hit, hitting contusion the action of bruising crash, smashthe act of colliding with something bunt(baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat fly, fly ball(baseball) a hit that flies up in the air ground ball, groundball, grounder, hopper(baseball) a hit that travels along the ground header(soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head scorcher, screamera very hard hit ball plunk, plunker(baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly impaction, impingementa sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something blasta very long fly ball pop fly, pop-fly, pop-upa short high fly ball chop, choppera grounder that bounces high in the air rollera grounder that rolls along the infield line drive, liner(baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter flare(baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield Texas leaguer(baseball) a fly ball that falls between and infielder and an outfielder touch, touching the act of putting two things together with no space between them |
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