1LOVEsuddenly 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。
2smitten with/by somethingsuddenly 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 virulentflugerm.• 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 withsummitfever 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 bythunderbolts.