ph.

1. 开始独立从事新的活动;自立谋生
If you strike out, you begin to do something different, often because you want to become more independent.

2. 猛打;冲…大嚷
If you strike out at someone, you hit, attack, or speak angrily to them.

3. (朝某方向)开始前行，出发
If you strike out in a particular direction, you start travelling in that direction.

4. (击球手)三击不中出局;使…三振出局
In baseball, if a pitcher strikes out a batter or if a batter strikes out, the batter fails to hit three balls thrown properly by the pitcher, and is out.

5. 失败;不成功
If someone strikes out, they fail.

6. see also: strike

1. set out on a course of action

e.g. He struck out on his own

2. remove from a list

e.g. Cross the name of the dead person off the list

Synonym: cross offcross outstrike offmark

3. cause to get out

e.g. The pitcher retired three batters
the runner was put out at third base

Synonym: retire

4. put out or be put out by a strikeout

e.g. Oral struck out three batters to close the inning

5. make a motion as with one's fist or foot towards an object or away from one's body

6. be unsuccessful in an endeavor

e.g. The candidate struck out with his health care plan