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strainn.
1. impulse沖動。
△L.L.L.5.2.768(760): “As love isfull of unbefitting strains.”戀愛是充滿了種種失態(tài)的沖動的。
2. feeling,excessive feeling感情，過分的感情。
△2H.IV.4.5.168(169): “But if it did infect my bloodwith joy. / Or swell my thoughts to any strain ofpride.”但是假如它使我的血液中感染到些微的欣喜，或者使我的心里膨脹起驕傲的感情。
3. painful feeling悲痛，痛苦。
△Ado.5.1.12:“And letit answer every strain for strain.” 讓他也以同樣的悲痛來體會我的悲痛。
4. natural disposition,quality 氣質(zhì)，品質(zhì)。
△Lr.5.3.41(40): “Sir,you have showed today your valiantstrain，”伯爵，你今天表現(xiàn)了你的勇敢的品質(zhì)。
5. character,disposition性格，性情。
△Wiv.2.1.89(87):“unless he know some strain in me that I know not myself，”除非他在我身上發(fā)現(xiàn)了某種連我自己也沒有覺察到的性格。
△Wiv.3.3.195(185):“I would all of the same strain were in the same distress.”我希望像他這一號人都嘗嘗這種苦頭。
6. stock,race,breed,lineage 世系，種族，血統(tǒng)，門第。
△H.V. 2.4.51:“And he is bred out of that bloody strain / That haunted us in our familiar paths.”他就是這個血腥的家族所生養(yǎng)出來的，他的先人曾經(jīng)在我們自己家鄉(xiāng)的道路上追獵過我們。
△Ado.2.1.397(378):“he is of a no-ble strain，”他出身高貴。
7. musical note,tune 曲調(diào)，調(diào)子。
△As.4.3.68(67):“What,to make thee an instrument,and play falsestrains upon thee!”哼，拿你當(dāng)做一件樂器(又譯：工具)，對你奏出假情假義的曲調(diào)！
△Tw.1.1.4:“That strain again!”i.e.Play that piece of music again. 再奏起那個調(diào)子！
strainvt.
1. urge 力勸，敦促。
△Oth.3.3.250:“Note if your ladystrain his entertainment / With any strong or vehe-ment importunity；”i.e.Observe if your lady urge hisreappointment,etc. 注意你的夫人是否敦促要他復(fù)職，對此極力強烈請求。
2. force,constrain,press 強迫，強逼，逼迫。
△Rom. 4.1.47: “It strains me past the compass of my wits.” i. e. Icannot think of a solution to the problem.這件事逼得我費盡心思，也想不出辦法。
3. force out 勉強擠出。
△Rom.3.5.27:“It is the larkthat sings so out of tune,/Straining harsh discordsand unpleasing sharps.”云雀唱得走了調(diào)，費力擠出這樣生硬的噪音和刺耳的尖聲。
4. apply with desperation 拼命使用。
△Ado.4.1.254(252): “For to strange sores strangely they strain thecure.” i. e. strange diseases require strange and des-perate cures. 不尋常的病癥只有痛下不尋常的藥劑才能治好。5. transgress,disregard 違背，不顧。
△ Rom.2.4.55(49): “my business was great,and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.”i.e.a man maytransgress good manners,or be unceremonious. 我當(dāng)時有很要緊的事，在那種情形下，一個人只好失禮。
6. force the sense of,enlarge the meaning of 曲解，夸大。
△Oth.3.3.218: “I am to pray you not to strain my speech /To grosser issues”，我得求你不要把我的話引申到更明顯的結(jié)論。
7. embrace 擁抱。
△H.VIII.4.1.45:“Our king has allthe Indies in his arms,/ And more and richer,when he strains that lady.”我們的國王擁抱這一位小姐的時候，簡直等于把東西印度的財富都抱在他的懷里了，而且比東西印度的財富還要更豐富、更寶貴呢。
～ vi.
1. make efforts,exert oneself,exert to the utmost 作出努力，盡力，極度盡力。
△H.V.3.1. 32:“Straining uponthe start.”i.e. Exerting to the utmost to start. 極度緊張地等待出擊。
2. strive 反抗。
△2H.VI.3.1.210:“And as the butchertakes away the calf,/ And binds the wretch,andbeats it when it strains，”就像屠夫拉走小牛，把這個可憐東西綁起來，它掙扎時就打它。(按： strains又作strays,=wanders from a direct course or from company，“離開正道或離開同伴”。)
3. ? stretch,exceed bounds 夸張，超越界限。
? troubleoneself unduly 過慮。
△1H.IV.4.1.75: “You straintoo far.”你太夸張了。(又譯：你太過慮了。) strain應(yīng)變由于外力作用或內(nèi)在缺陷，物體單位體積所發(fā)生的長度和夾角的變化。亦稱“相對變形”。根據(jù)引起變形的力，可分為正應(yīng)變和切應(yīng)變。前者由垂直于材料各平面或截面的力引起，后者由同材料各平面或截面相切的力引起。 strain[strein]n. 緊張v.拉緊，（使）緊張，盡力
◇ease the strain使緊張狀態(tài)松弛
have a strain in the leg腿部扭傷
stand the strain of sleepless nights經(jīng)受住連夜不眠的
strain at the oar使勁劃槳
strain one’s interpretation附會
‖ strain field應(yīng)變場
strain gauge應(yīng)變儀
strain on credit信貸緊張
strain on liquidity清償力不足
strain transducer應(yīng)變傳感器
the strain of modern life現(xiàn)代生活緊張
strained market supply市場供應(yīng)緊張 |