| 单词 | come up against something |
| 释义 | come up against somethingcome up against something 1 PROBLEMto have to deal with a difficult opponent or problem 必须面对某人/某事 You see, this is what we’re up against – the suppliers just aren’t reliable. 你瞧，这就是我们必须面对的难题，供应商就是靠不住。 Examples from the Corpus be/come up against somebody/something• The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against.• And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall?• Here, Wade realized, he had come up against a few firm truths.• Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.• What you have here is a situation where custom and convention comes up against constitutional guarantees.• In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness.• A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands.• At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State. → be/come up against somebody/something at against(1) 2 phrasal verbphr v PROBLEMto have to deal with problems or difficulties 必须处理[面对]〔问题或困难〕 We may find we come up against quite a lot of opposition from local people. 我们可能会遭到当地人的强烈反对。 You’ve got no idea of what you’re going to come up against. 你不清楚你将要面临什么样的问题。 Examples from the Corpus come up against • In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness.• They looked at each other with the knowledge that they had come up against the edge of the permissible.• He repeated his question, and came up against the same smiling ignorance.• When Blue comes up against this question, he can no longer think. → come up against something/somebody at come1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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