英和和英

動詞

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

1. (dated, India) To go on strike.

   Synonym: strike

   • 1799, The Lady’s Magazine, Volume 30, p. 525,^[1]

     About nine hundred bakers, it is said, struck work on Saturday night, in consequence of their wages not being raised.

   • 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, Chapter 16, p. 286,^[2]

     […] whenever they’ve got a point to gain, no matter how unreasonable, they’ll strike work.

   • 1871, David Livingstone, journal entry dated 11 February, 1871, in Horace Waller (ed.), The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, London: John Murray, 1874, Volume 2, Chapter 4, p. 99,^[3]

     Men struck work for higher wages: I consented to give them six dollars a month if they behaved well; if ill I diminish it, so we hope to start to-morrow.

   • 2017, “Patients left in lurch as doctors continue strike,” The New Indian Express, 16 March, 2017,^[4]

     The strike, which is into its third day, has raised serious ethical questions whether doctors should strike work at the cost of patients.

2. (dated) To stop working (for a break, at the end of the work day, etc.).

   Synonyms: quit, call it a quits, pack it in

   • 1848, Charles Dickens, letter dated 28 November, 1848 in Georgina Hogarth and Mamie Dickens (eds.), The Letters of Charles Dickens, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, p. 203,^[5]

     Come down on Friday. There is a train leaves London Bridge at two—gets here at four. By that time I shall be ready to strike work.

   • 1871, James Russell Lowell, “My Garden Acquaintance” in My Study Windows, Boston: James R. Osgood, p. 6,^[6]

     This very year I saw the linnets at work thatching, just before a snow-storm which covered the ground several inches deep for a number of days. They struck work and left us for a while, no doubt in search of food.

   • c. 1930s, Bert Higgins, interview transcribed in Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Arkansas, Slave Narratives, Volume 2, Part 3, Washington: Library of Congress, 1941,^[7]

     When we got free old master read it to us out of the paper. We was out in the field and I was totin’ water. Some of ’em struck work and went to the house and set around a while but they soon went back to the field. And a few days after that he hired ’em.

3. (dated, figurative, of things) To stop functioning.
   • 1845, Robert Browning, letter dated 28 January, 1845 in The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846, New York: Harper, 1899, p. 9,^[8]

     Your books lie on my table here, at arm’s length from me, in this old room where I sit all day: and when my head aches or wanders or strikes work, as it now or then will, I take my chance for either green-covered volume,

   • 1877, Richard A. Proctor, Myths and Marvels of Astronomy, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Chapter 6, p. 182,^[9]

     These auroras were accompanied with unusually great electro-magnetic disturbances in every part of the world. In many places the telegraph wires struck work.

   • 1885, Clinton Dent, Above the Snow Line, London: Longmans, Green, Chapter 1, p. 9,^[10]

     Many of the smaller brooks had struck work altogether, while the main river was reduced to a clear stream trickling lazily down between sloping banks of rounded white boulders […]

   • 1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1958, Chapter 2, p. 27,^[11]

     […] when you come to the end of the beams and try to get up again, you find that your knees have temporarily struck work and refuse to lift you.