Stride
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[编辑] 解释
[编辑] GRE 红宝书
- v.大步行走
- [英] v.大步行走 ( to move with or as if with long steps)
- [类] quaff : sip / stride : mince ( 程度: 畅饮和啜饮 / 大步走和小步走)
- [例] He strode thirty miles. ( 他大步走了30英里)
[编辑] Webster Collegiate
I. verb (strode; stridden; striding)
- Etymology: Middle English, from Old English strīdan; akin to Middle Low German striden to straddle, Old High German strītan to quarrel
- Date: before 12th century
- intransitive verb
- 1. to stand astride
- 2. to move with or as if with long steps <strode across the room>
- 3. to take a very long step
- transitive verb
- ? strider noun
II. noun
- Date: before 12th century
- 1.
- a. a cycle of locomotor movements (as of a horse) completed when the feet regain the initial relative positions; also the distance traversed in a stride
- b. the most effective natural pace ; maximum competence or capability — often used in the phrase hit one's stride
- 2. a long step
- 3. an act of striding
- 4. a stage of progress ; advance <made great strides toward their goal>
- 5. a manner of striding
- 6. stride piano