smitten

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++smitten1 /ˈsmɪtn/ verb the past participle of smite smite 的过去分词smit·ten2 adjective [not before noun] 1 LOVEsuddenly feeling that you love someone very much 突然爱上…的，突然迷上…的 As soon as he saw her, he was smitten. 他一见到她，就为她倾倒了。smitten by/with She was totally smitten with Steve. 她完全被史蒂夫迷住了。2 smitten with/by something suddenly affected by an illness or a feeling 突然染上某种病/突然产生某种感情 Dan was smitten with remorse. 丹顿时悔恨不已。 The whole family were smitten with flu. 全家人都患上了流感。

Examples from the Corpus

smitten by/with• When Robert was twelve and I seven, both my parents and Ann were smitten by a particularly virulent flu germ.• The fact was, that from the first moment he saw her, Geoffrey was smitten by Deborah.• She was smitten with Steve - and showed it.• I, too, was smitten with summit fever though for less obviously religious reasons.• He could well understand why his daughter was so smitten with the boy.• That El Comandante was smitten by the First Lady was immediately apparent.• The trees are splintered, crushed, and broken, as if smitten by thunderbolts.