| 单词 | run up against something/somebody |
| 释义 | run up against something/somebodyrun up against something/somebody phrasal verbphr v PROBLEMto have to deal with unexpected problems or a difficult opponent 遭到，遭遇，碰到〔突如其来的问题或难应付的对手〕 The museum has run up against opposition to its proposals. 博物馆的建议遭到了反对。 Examples from the Corpus run up against • When scientists attempt to unravel the mysteries of the past they always run up against a brick wall.• I never run up against anything like this.• In this it occasionally ran up against other states with their own sense of destiny.• But they know they ran up against remarkable circumstances.• Whatever plan he dreams up is bound to run up against the ambitions and obstinacy of a lot of powerful colleagues.• But here we run up against the difficulty that this formulation appears to derive a prescriptive conclusion from two factual premisses.• Time and time again they have run up against unsurmountable problems of distributing and getting the drugs accepted. → run up against something/somebody at run1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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