strike someone when they are down

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Synonym of kick someone when they are down (“make things worse for someone in a difficult position”). idiomatic
    — but he was already so doubly overthrown by two Learned Opposers, that it seem'd unhandsome and ignoble to strike a man when he was down; his Circumstances making him rather an Object of Pity than Victory.

词形变化

strikes someone when they are down present,singular,third-person striking someone when they are down participle,present struck someone when they were down participle,past struck someone when they were down past
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