单词 | to run up against |
释义 | > as lemmasto run up against 5. intransitive. to run up against. extracted from runv. a. To collide with (a person or thing). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > collide with hurtlec1430 to run up against1625 rencounter1671 collide1700 shock1783 1625 R. Juet in S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. iii. xvi. 588 Our shallop came running vp against our sterne, and split in all her stemme. 1747 R. Gough tr. D. Martin Hist. Bible 165 The Ass run up against one of these Walls with so much Violence that Balaam's Leg was bruised. 1797 R. Proud Hist. Pennsylvania II. App. Pt. ii. 73 They surrounded me with drawn knives in their hands, in such a manner, that I could hardly get along; running up against me, with their breasts open, as if they wanted some pretence to kill me. 1834 M. A. Shee Cecil Hyde I. xvi. 192 As I hurried through the ante-room I nearly ran up against a person coming out of an adjoining apartment. 1873 Quiver 9 346/2 Turning a corner, she ran up against her husband. But for the actual contact causing both to start and stare, they would have passed unrecognised and unrecognising. 1910 W. Roughead Trial Oscar Slater Introd. p. xl She saw the man run from the close and down the steps. He came towards her very fast, ran up against her, and on towards West Cumberland Street. 1960 W. Hibberd tr. J. Hervieux New Test. Apocrypha ix. 107 One day as the Lord Jesus was returning home with Joseph, he met a boy who ran up against him and knocked him down. 2005 D. Prestoon & D. Child Brimstone xxxiii. 275 He tried to go around her, but she shifted and he almost ran up against her. b. To encounter (a person or thing), esp. as a source of difficulty, obstruction, or opposition. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > come up against opposition from to run up againsta1758 to run afoul of1822 to knock one's head against1824 buck1904 a1758 J. Edwards Serm. ii. 36 in S. Hopkins Life & Char. J. Edwards (1765) We ought to avoid running up against stumbling Blocks; i.e. we should avoid those Things that expose us to fall into Sin. 1830 Sporting Mag. July 179/2 A man that cannot see walks as well in the dark as in daylight, and in fact is less likely to run up against mischief. 1846 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 367/2 One morning, whilst taking an early walk to the springs, I ran up against an English friend. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Aug. 3/1 Our extradition treaty with the United States has run up against its first snag. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 50/3 (advt.) The ‘Yankee’ Ratchet Screw-driver with which to tackle any and all screws that you will run up against in the course of ordinary work. 1960 A. Munro in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 278 I had run up against the simple unprepossessing materialism which was the rock of their lives. 2007 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Dec. 22/3 In Iran..he repeatedly runs up against the ambiguities of the post-euphoric phase of the Islamic Revolution. < as lemmas |
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