impinge: to strike or fall upon or against; in the following passage used ethically: -- "For I find this black mark impinge the man, That he believes in just the vile of life." -- The Ring and the Book: The Pope, v.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
There is always a little wind on the mesa, a sliding current of cooler air going down the face of the mountain of its own momentum, but not to disturb the silence of great space. Passing the wide mouths of canons, one gets the effect of whatever is doing in them, openly or behind a screen of cloud,--thunder of falls, wind in the pine leaves, or rush and roar of rain. The rumor of tumult grows and dies in passing, as from open doors gaping on a village street, but does not impinge on the effect of solitariness.英文原著 · 《The Land of Little Rain》
Presently the sun's huge, rosy-red disk impinged upon the blue shadows of the horizon before preparing to sink into a snow-white cloud-bank; and as it did so it bathed the ears of grain around me in radiance and caused the cornflowers to seem the darker by comparison; and the stillness, the herald of night, to accentuate more than ever the burden of the earth's song.英文原著 · 《Through Russia》
It impinged on her nerves, causing the confusing symptoms that baffled eight expert doctors.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》