Stricken describes someone or something hit hard by trouble, illness, grief, or disaster — and still suffering from it. You can use it on its own before a noun ('the stricken city', 'a stricken look on her face'), or after a verb ('she was stricken with grief').

Stricken Stricken describes是用來形容 someone or something hit hard by trouble, illness, grief, or disaster被困境、疾病、悲痛或災難重重打擊的人或事物 and still suffering from it而且仍在承受其中的痛苦。You can use it on its own before a noun你可以單獨放在名詞前面 ('the stricken city', 'a stricken look on her face')（例如「the stricken city」受創的城市、「a stricken look on her face」她臉上受創的神情） or after a verb或是放在動詞後面 ('she was stricken with grief')（例如「she was stricken with grief」她被悲傷擊垮）。

It is very common as the second half of a compound: poverty-stricken, panic-stricken, grief-stricken, drought-stricken, horror-stricken. That pattern is the form learners will meet most.

It is very common as the second half of a compound它很常當作複合詞的後半部 poverty-stricken, panic-stricken, grief-stricken, drought-stricken, horror-stricken poverty-stricken（貧困交加）、panic-stricken（驚慌失措）、grief-stricken（悲痛欲絕）、drought-stricken（旱災肆虐）、horror-stricken（驚恐萬分）。That pattern這個模式 is the form learners will meet most是學習者最常會遇到的形式。

It is formal and literary — news reports, novels and speeches use it; friends chatting do not. It has a strong feeling of helplessness: a stricken person is not just unhappy but knocked flat, unable to act.

It is formal and literary這個字正式又帶點文學味 news reports, novels and speeches use it新聞報導、小說和演講會用它 friends chatting do not朋友聊天不會這樣說。It has a strong feeling of helplessness它帶有很強烈的無助感 a stricken person is not just unhappy but knocked flat, unable to act一個stricken的人不只是不開心，而是整個被打垮、動彈不得。

There is also a separate legal use, 'stricken from the record', meaning officially removed, and a sailing use for a damaged ship. The word is an old past participle of 'strike', which is why it means 'having been hit' — modern English uses 'struck' for the ordinary past ('lightning struck the tree'), and keeps stricken for this figurative sense of being hit by misfortune.

There is also另外還有 a separate legal use, 'stricken from the record'一個法律上的用法「stricken from the record」 meaning officially removed意思是被正式移除 and a sailing use for a damaged ship以及航海用語裡指受損的船隻。The word is an old past participle of 'strike'這個字是strike的一個古老過去分詞 which is why it means 'having been hit'這也是為什麼它的意思是「曾被擊中」 modern English uses 'struck' for the ordinary past現代英文一般過去式會用struck ('lightning struck the tree')（例如「lightning struck the tree」閃電擊中了那棵樹） and keeps stricken for this figurative sense of being hit by misfortune而把stricken留給這種被不幸打擊的比喻用法。