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 touched [tʌtʃt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 精神不太正常的, 受感动的



    touched
    [ adj ]
    1. having come into contact

    2. <adj.all>
    3. being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion

    4. <adj.all>
      too moved to speak
      very touched by the stranger's kindness
    5. slightly insane

    6. <adj.all>


    Touch \Touch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Touched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Touching}.] [F. toucher, OF. touchier, tuchier; of Teutonic
    origin; cf. OHG. zucchen, zukken, to twitch, pluck, draw, G.
    zukken, zukken, v. intens. fr. OHG. ziohan to draw, G.
    ziehen, akin to E. tug. See {Tuck}, v. t., {Tug}, and cf.
    {Tocsin}, {Toccata}.]
    1. To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against;
    to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or
    rest on.

    Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear
    Touched lightly. --Milton.

    2. To perceive by the sense of feeling.

    Nothing but body can be touched or touch. --Greech.

    3. To come to; to reach; to attain to.

    The god, vindictive, doomed them never more
    Ah, men unblessed! -- to touch their natal shore.
    --Pope.

    4. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone. [Obs.]

    Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed. --Shak.

    5. To relate to; to concern; to affect.

    The quarrel toucheth none but us alone. --Shak.

    6. To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.

    Storial thing that toucheth gentilesse. --Chaucer.

    7. To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the
    books. --Pope.

    8. To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to
    melt; to soften; especially, to cause feelings of pity,
    compassion, sympathy, or gratitude in.
    [1913 Webster +PJC]

    What of sweet before
    Hath touched my sense, flat seems to this and harsh.
    --Milton.

    The tender sire was touched with what he said.
    --Addison.

    9. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke
    to with the pencil or brush.

    The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn
    right. --Pope.

    10. To infect; to affect slightly. --Bacon.

    11. To make an impression on; to have effect upon.

    Its face . . . so hard that a file will not touch
    it. --Moxon.

    12. To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an
    instrument of music.

    [They] touched their golden harps. --Milton.

    13. To perform, as a tune; to play.

    A person is the royal retinue touched a light and
    lively air on the flageolet. --Sir W.
    Scott.

    14. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly. `` No decree
    of mine, . . . [to] touch with lightest moment of impulse
    his free will,'' --Milton.

    15. To harm, afflict, or distress.

    Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do
    us no hurt, as we have not touched thee. --Gen.
    xxvi. 28, 29.

    16. To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree;
    to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the
    past participle.

    She feared his head was a little touched. --Ld.
    Lytton.

    17. (Geom.) To be tangent to. See {Tangent}, a.

    18. To lay a hand upon for curing disease.

    19. To compare with; to be equal to; -- usually with a
    negative; as, he held that for good cheer nothing could
    touch an open fire. [Colloq.]
    [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

    20. To induce to give or lend; to borrow from; as, to touch
    one for a loan; hence, to steal from. [Slang]
    [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

    {To touch a sail} (Naut.), to bring it so close to the wind
    that its weather leech shakes.

    {To touch the wind} (Naut.), to keep the ship as near the
    wind as possible.

    {To touch up}, to repair; to improve by touches or
    emendation.

    1. Reagan's final words, "God bless America," touched off a tumultuous demonstration on the floor, which erupted in even greater cheering as he was joined on the podium by the first lady.
    2. Pemex's preliminary report on that disaster found that a spark during the installation of firefighting equipment touched off the blaze.
    3. Isabelle Penzler, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, acknowledges that while these restrictions have never touched off a public outcry, they become for people who covet the right to choose "a burning issue.
    4. If Bush had chosen another destination for his first trip, however, it would have touched off a chorus of complaints, Hawes said.
    5. According to the legend, Midas, son of King Gordius, was a spendthrift who begged the gods for the power to turn anything he touched to gold.
    6. The 1976 murder of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier on a tree-lined traffic circle in Washington touched off a furor that strained U.S.-Chilean relations and sent two men to prison.
    7. The dispute was touched off when the leader of a Hindu right-wing party, Lal Krishna Advani, was arrested Oct. 24 while leading a caravan to Ayodhya to help build the proposed temple.
    8. Joseph Eaton also was gay, and his lover died of AIDS a year ago, after which Eaton began to drink again after having not touched alcohol for five years, his brother said.
    9. The confrontations were touched off by the fatal shootings of two Palestinians Sunday, apparently by Israeli civilians who opened fire after attacks on their vehicles by stone-throwers, Israeli and Arab reports said.
    10. Vice President George Bush touched off a quick chorus of challenges and criticism from environmentalists and elected officials with his claim to be a lifelong environmentalist.
    11. Less than an hour before Air Force One touched down, Secretary of State George P. Shultz in Washington announced the collapse of negotiations to get Panamanian leader Gen.
    12. The report apparently triggered a surge in stock index futures, which then touched off program trading as arbitragers sold the futures and bought the underlying stocks.
    13. Combined with a 15.5% stake derived from the special transaction that touched off the controversy, the tendered shares pushed Harlin's holding in Elders to 59.3%.
    14. The provision touched off a lengthy debate in the committee, with Republicans criticizing the amendment as detrimental to the U.S. position in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
    15. The shares touched a five-year low of 78p in September, just before the group announced a collapse in profits.
    16. State prison inmates took eight guards hostage and set four fires in a seven-hour riot touched off when a prisoner assaulted a staff worker, officials said.
    17. The spokeswoman described Mrs. Higgins as "touched that the prime minister would call her" to express her concern.
    18. The rage touched off by an Hispanic police officer's shooting of an unarmed black motorcyclist Monday left one man dead, seven others shot and some 370 people jailed _ most of them suspected looters under 18, police said.
    19. Harris' election last September by members of the Boston Episcopal diocese also touched off debate from other denominations that bar women from the priesthood.
    20. Most of the pressure on the currency came in overseas trading, where the dollar touched a six-year low against the pound.
    21. Community leaders in this racially tense city are bracing for the trial of a police officer in the shooting death of a black motorcyclist that touched off riots in January.
    22. The walkout touched off a scramble by other agencies for Lord Geller's accounts.
    23. March 1989 at one point touched its limit decline before recovering slightly.
    24. That touched off a crisis between the United States and Noriega's government, with Washington continuing to recognize Delvalle as Panama's constitutional leader.
    25. At the day's peak it touched 3,044 and was at a premium to cash before coming off the top to end at 3,039, at parity with cash.
    26. Hu's death on April 15 touched off major protests by students demanding democratic reforms.
    27. The assassination touched off a war between Colombian drug lords and the U.S.-backed government of President Virgilio Barco.
    28. The protesters' complaints of official corruption touched a sensitive chord among the general public and posed a clear challenge to the party's moral leadership.
    29. That decline, coming on a Friday, touched off widespread concern that the following Monday would result in another 1987-style crash.
    30. So, UK smaller companies, which have outperformed by a paltry 30 per cent since they touched bottom late in 1992, must have further potential.
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