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hit-and-run

/hit-n-ruhn/US // ˈhɪt nˈrʌn //

肇事逃逸,肇事逃逸者,交通肇事逃逸,肇事者逃逸

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : guilty of fleeing the scene of an accident or injury one has caused, especially a vehicular accident, thereby attempting to evade being identified and held responsible: a hit-and-run driver.
    • : involving or resulting from such action or conduct: hit-and-run fatalities.
    • : Baseball. pertaining to or noting a play in which, to get a head start, a base runner begins to run to the next base as the pitcher delivers the ball to the batter, who must try to hit it in order to protect the runner.
    • : marked by taking flight immediately after a quick, concentrated attack: a hit-and-run raid.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    hit-and-ran, hit-and-run·ning.

    • : Baseball. to attempt or execute a hit-and-run play.

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Examples

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  • Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.

  • Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.

  • The most recent issue contains detailed instructions for building car bombs, and the magazine frequently draws up hit-lists.

  • Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

  • A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.

  • Many of us had been hit by the balls, but a bruise or a graze of the skin was the worst consequence that had ensued.

  • But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.

  • She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.