I had also once come across a phrase about a book “lying like a poleaxed wildebeest in the middle of my life.
此外,我还经常在书上看到一个短语:“我到中年时,要像一只被雷倒的角马般躺下。”
A friend, poleaxed with grief after the death of her mother, has found after a couple of weeks that her get-out-of-jail-free card has stopped working so well.