stroke
stroke 英 [strəʊk] 美 [stroʊk]
n. 一击；划；轻抚；中风； vt. 击；击球；画；轻抚；划尾桨；
进行时:stroking 过去式:stroked 过去分词:stroked 第三人称单数:strokes 名词复数:strokes
- It's a stroke of luck, or chance event, to find a terrific parking space on a rainy day, but no one feels lucky when their grandfather has a stroke, a sudden debilitating loss of oxygen to the brain.
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- n. 一击；划；轻抚；中风；
- vt. 击；击球；画；轻抚；划尾桨；
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1. What a beautiful stroke!
击球动作多漂亮呀！
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2. He won by two strokes (= in golf,by taking two fewer strokes than his opponent).
他以少于对手两杆的成绩获胜。
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3. His punishment was six strokes of the cane.
给他的惩罚是捱六教鞭。
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4. She took a few more strokes to reach the bank.
她又划几下，游到了岸边。
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5. Butterfly is the only stroke I can't do.
只有蝶泳我不会。
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6. He gave the cat a stroke.
他抚摩了一下猫。
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7. At the stroke of a pen (= by signing sth)they removed thousands of people from the welfare system.
他们大笔一挥，就把成千上万的人排除在福利制度之外。
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8. Your idea was a stroke of genius.
你的主意很高明。
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9. It was a stroke of luckthat I found you here.
我在这儿看见你纯属巧遇。
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10. She never does a stroke (of work) (= never does any work).
她一向什么活儿都不干。
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11. At the first stroke it will be 9 o'clock exactly.
等到钟敲第一下时就是 9 点整。
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12. to have/suffer a stroke
患中风
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13. The stroke left him partly paralysed.
他因中风身体局部瘫痪了。
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14. He's a beautiful dog. Can I stroke him?
这只狗真漂亮，我可以摸一摸吗？
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15. She stroked away his tears.
她轻轻拭去他的眼泪。
- stroke (n.) "act of striking," c. 1300, probably from Old English *strac "stroke," from Proto-Germanic *straik- (source also of Middle Low German strek, German streich, Gothic striks "stroke"); see stroke (v.).
- stroke (v.) "pass the hand gently over," Old English stracian "to stroke," related to strican "pass over lightly," from Proto-Germanic *straik-, from PIE root *strig- "to stroke, rub, press" (see strigil). Figurative sense of "soothe, flatter" is recorded from 1510s. The noun meaning "a stroking movement of the hand" is recorded from 1630s. Related: Stroked; stroking.
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