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動詞

strike in (三人称単数 現在形 strikes in, 現在分詞 striking in, 過去形 struck in, 過去分詞 struck in または stricken in)

1. To enter suddenly or with force.
   • 1694, anonymous, Aristotle’s Master-piece: or the Secrets of Generation Display’d in All the Parts Thereof, London: W.B., Chapter 37, p. 177,^[1]

     But when that Act is over, all is not done; for, that it may have the better Success, the Husband must not presently separate himself from his Wife’s Embraces, lest the Air should suddenly strike in, and so prevent the Issue of their Labours.

   • 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (translator), The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, Volume 2, Purgatorio, Canto 17, lines 40-41, p. 106,^[2]

     As sleep is broken, when upon a sudden

     New light strikes in upon the eyelids closed,

   • 1935, Pearl S. Buck, A House Divided, London: Methuen, Chapter 4, p. 341,^[3]

     These grandchildren and great-grandchildren would hold it too mean to live in, cold in winter except where the southern sun struck in, and unceiled and not modern anywhere, and not a fit house for them.

2. To enter or add to a conversation; to say (something) by way of interruption or addition to a conversation.

   Synonyms: break in, interpose

   • 1596, Thomas Nashe, Have with You to Saffron-Walden, London: John Danter,^[4]

     There did this our Talatamtana or Doctour Hum, thrust himselfe into the thickest rankes of the Noblemen and Gallants, and whatsoeuer they were arguing of, he would not misse to catch hold of, or strike in at the one end, and take the theame out of their mouths,

   • 1694, N. H., The Ladies Dictionary, London: John Dunton, p. 314,^[5]

     It is not civil when a Person of Quality hesitates or stops in his discourse, for you to strike in, though with pretence of helping his memory;

   • 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, Volume 1, Chapter , p. 25,^[6]

     […] he behaved modestly, and sat silent, till upon something which occurred in the course of conversation, he suddenly struck in and quoted Macrobius;

   • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 18, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, OCLC 1057107260, page 165:

     […] Miss Knag, finding that the discourse was turning upon family greatness, lost no time in striking in, with a small reminiscence on her own account.