strain 的 3 个定义
- to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- to exert to the utmost: to strain one's ears to catch a sound.
- to impair, injure, or weaken by stretching or overexertion.
- (11)
- to pull forcibly: a dog straining at a leash.
- to stretch one's muscles, nerves, etc., to the utmost.
- to make violent physical efforts; strive hard.
- (7)
- any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- strong muscular or physical effort.
- great or excessive effort or striving after some goal, object, or effect.
- (15)
strain 近义词
cause mental stress
pain, due to exertion
ancestry
suggestion, hint
melody
stretch, often to limit
work very hard
filter
更多strain例句
- That’s because it’s been done by growing a virus in cells from other species and waiting for a weaker strain to appear by chance.
- The Atlantic’s subscriber base is growing at a moment when its advertising and events businesses, like most every media company’s, are under strain.
- Most cytomegaloviruses don’t cause disease, and each strain has evolved to infect only one species, so the risk of a cytomegalovirus vaccine jumping between species is very low.
- We’re home to a strain of “innocent optimism,” the Post insisted.
- American and global health authorities pick the flu strains to target, drugmakers manufacture the shots, and they’re given by workplaces, schools, drugstores, local public-health departments, physicians and hospitals.
- I strain and push and pedal and wonder, “When will this end?”
- However we strain to distract ourselves, our consciousness of death heightens our awareness of evil.
- Clients supply transportation, lodging, and ingredients, including the preferred strain of ganja.
- That is to say, the ancestral genes, the ancestral strain of inheritance, appears again in these little children.
- Even before his injury, the strain had begun to tell on him.
- When people argue in this strain, I immediately assume the offensive.
- If, now, the patient cough or strain as if at stool, the contents of the stomach will usually be forced out through the tube.
- We ought to attempt such a shortening as will strain the machine to a breaking point, but never break it.
- This was a great strain on their rather limited resources, and for some years they had to practise strict economy.
- The Marshal, in his Memoirs, asserts that this short campaign was the severest strain he ever underwent.