strain
/stɹeɪn/ 名词 B1中文： 株
- A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one. · They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.
- Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition. · There is a strain of madness in her family.
- Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
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Well, am I to rush into his arms, and strain him to my heart, crying, ‘My father, my father!’ like Monsieur Pixérécourt.”
He says that if I give up all reading and sewing entirely and any kind of work that strains the eyes, and if I’m careful not to cry, and if I wear the glasses he’s given me he thinks my eyes may not get any worse and my headaches will be cured.
“Your tidiness won’t bear much strain after all, Watson.
Sherlock Holmes recovered from the strain caused by his immense exertions in the spring of ’87.
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