1PHRASAL VERB 开始独立从事新的活动;自立谋生 If you strike out, you begin to do something different, often because you want to become more independent. 开始独立从事新的活动;自立谋生
She wanted me to strike out on my own, buy a business. [VERBPREP.]
她想让我自己闯一闯,买下一个公司。
...a desire to make changes and to strike out in new directions. [VERBPREP.]
想要有所改变并朝新的方向开拓的渴望
2PHRASAL VERB 猛打;冲…大嚷 If you strike out at someone, you hit, attack, or speak angrily to them. 猛打;冲…大嚷
He seemed always ready to strike out at anyone and for any cause. [VERBPREP. + at]
不管什么原因、对任何人,他他似乎总是摆出一副凶相。
Frampton struck out blindly, hitting not Waddington, but an elderly man. [VERBPREP.]
弗兰普顿乱打一通,没有打到沃丁顿却打到了一位老人。
3PHRASAL VERB (朝某方向)开始前行,出发 If you strike out in a particular direction, you start travelling in that direction. (朝某方向)开始前行,出发 [literary]
They left the car and struck out along the muddy track. [VERBPREP. prep./adv.]
他们下了车,然后开始沿着泥泞的小路往前走。
He was planning to dump her and strike out for New York alone. [VERBPREP. prep./adv.]
4PHRASAL VERB-ERG (击球手)三击不中出局;使…三振出局 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. (击球手)三击不中出局;使…三振出局
He struck out ten batters, and allowed only two runs. [VERBPREP. noun (not pronoun)]
他使 10 名击球手三振出局,仅让对方两次跑垒得分。
Canseco, nursing a back injury, struck out. [VERBPREP.]
坎塞科因背部受伤而三振出局。
5PHRASAL VERB 失败;不成功 If someone strikes out, they fail. 失败;不成功 [US, informal]
The lawyer admitted that he was the firm's second lawyer. The first one had struck out completely. [VERBPREP.]