Smite

(verb.) inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon.

(verb.) affect suddenly with deep feeling; 'He was smitten with love for this young girl'.

校对:塞尔玛

• She saw clearly enough the whole situation, yet she was fettered: she could not smite the stricken soul that entreated hers. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Beware, cried the man, God hears you, and will smite your stony heart in his wrath; his poisoned arrows fly, his dogs of death are unleashed! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I loved him well--too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I am er man,' said Mr Dolls, trying to smite himself on the breast, but bringing his hand to bear upon the vicinity of his eye, 'er do it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Many, already smitten, went home only to die: some died at the school, and were buried quietly and quickly, the nature of the malady forbidding delay. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I was in my own room as usual--just myself, without obvious change: nothing had smitten me, or scathed me, or maimed me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Now he was smitten with compunction, yet irritated that so trifling an omission should be stored up against him after nearly two years of marriage. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The grandson, however, being smitten by a sudden wish to see the house himself, proposes to join the party. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Athens, prospering for a time after the Persian repulse, was smitten by the plague, in which Pericles, its greatest ruler, died (428 B.C.). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There Sennacherib's army was smitten by a pestilence, a disaster described in the nineteenth chapter of the Second Book of Kings. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If it had a new meaning that smote him to the heart, the change was in his perception, not in her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Innocent as I had been of any intention to terrify and agitate her, my heart smote me as I looked at the poor, pale, frightened face. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Conscience smote the gentle Twemlow pale. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This praise and confidence smote Dobbin's heart very keenly. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Yet as the laugh died, a kind of wrath smote me, and then bitterness followed: it was the rock struck, and Meribah's waters gushing out. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It smote upon his heart to feel that she hid her thin, worn shoe. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• In effect, I am of no country,' said Mr Blandois, stretching out his leg and smiting it: 'I descend from half-a-dozen countries. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Right for all that,' said Mr. Peggotty, stopping in his roar, and smiting his hands together; 'fur here she is! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• No,' he said, smiting the table with his fist, 'I do not. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• But, instead of talking, I'll bring my hand down upon you with all its weight,' heavily smiting the table with great force, 'and smash you! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Test this flint-like surface, he cried, smiting the solid rock that confined us. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• She's a honour to her sex,' said Mr. Sikes, filling his glass, and smiting the table with his enormous fist. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.

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