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thunderstruck

/thuhn-der-struhk/US // ˈθʌn dərˌstrʌk //UK // (ˈθʌndəˌstrʌk) //

惊天动地,雷霆万钧,惊雷,惊雷式

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : overcome with consternation; confounded; astounded: He was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion.
    • : Archaic. struck by a thunderbolt.

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Examples

  • New York University was not thunderstruck by the news that Sir Harold Acton had left the school his estate when he died in 1994.

  • Mrs. Ducksmith, who had sat with overwhelmed head in her hands, started bolt upright, and looked at him like one thunderstruck.

  • They seemed confounded and thunderstruck by their sentence, and the painful accessories of its publicity.

  • Howell Gruffydd, who had been as thunderstruck as the rest of them, now affected to take a jocular view of the matter.

  • When I got ready to put up my location notice, I was thunderstruck to find that I had lost my bundle of blanks.

  • Of them all Frank Merriwell was the only one who did not seem thunderstruck.