stricken
英 ['strɪk(ə)n]
美 ['strɪkən]
- ailing; frustrated; attacked; afflicted.
語源
苦しめられる古語綴りのstrikeの過去分詞で、tormented, afflictedから比喩的に派生した。
英語の語源
- stricken (adj.)
- 1510s, "wounded, affected (by disease, trouble, etc.)," adjective use of archaic past participle of strike (v.). Figurative meaning "overwhelmed with terror, grief, etc." is from 1530s. An earlier development is reflected in 13c. phrase striken in elde "advanced in years," from strike in the sense of "to move, go," hence "far advanced."
例文
- 1. A wall collapsed and 39 people，were killed in the panic- stricken stampede.
- 壁が倒れ、パニックの中で39人が踏みつけ事故で死んだ。
- 2.Foreign aid workers will not be allowed into the stricken areas.
- 海外の救助隊は被災地に入ることを許さない。
- 3.He was panic- stricken at the thought he might never play again.
- いつまでも試合に参加できないかもしれないと思うと、彼はパニックになる。
- 4.He was stricken at twenty-one with a crippling malady.
- 彼は21歳の時に障害性重病を発症した。
- 5.Panic- stricken travellers fled for the borders.
- うろたえていた旅行者が国境に逃げた。