| 单词 | up against |
| 释义 | > as lemmasup against —— 24. up against ——. to knock or run up against, to come across, to fall in with. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (transitive)] > encounter or experience ymetec893 findeOE meetOE counterc1325 overtakec1390 limp?a1400 tidea1400 runa1450 to fall with ——?c1475 onlightc1475 recounterc1485 recount1490 to come in witha1500 occur1531 to fall on ——1533 to fall upon ——1533 beshine1574 rencontre1582 entertain1591 cope with1594 happen1594 tocome1596 incur1599 forgather1600 thwart1601 to fall in1675 cross1684 to come across ——1738 to cross upon (or on)1748 to fall across ——1760 experience1786 to drop in1802 encounter1814 to come upon ——1820 to run against ——1821 to come in contact with1862 to run across ——1864 to knock or run up against1886 to knock up against1887 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Aug. 3/1 Our extradition treaty with the United States has run up against its first snag. 1886 B. M. Butt Lesterre Durant I. xv. 222 The very man I have been hoping I'd run up against one of these days. 1887 A. Birrell Obiter Dicta 2nd Ser. 264 When Montaigne was in Rome..he complained bitterly that he was always knocking up against his own countrymen. up against —— up against —— faced or confronted by (difficulties, etc.). colloquial (originally North American).extracted from upadv.2< as lemmas |
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