Definition of across in English:

across

preposition & adverb əˈkrɒs

1From one side to the other of (a place, area, etc.)
从…一边到另一边
as preposition I ran across the street
我奔跑过街。
travelling across Europe
穿越欧洲旅行。
as adverb he had swum across
他已经游过去了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Ramblers celebrated the launch of new right to roam laws by taking a stroll across former no-go areas all over the north west.
- Pieces of the aircraft were strewn across a vast area.
- The boy shrugged and walked across it to the side with the handle.
- Two young boys were playing football indiscriminately across the area with a plastic bottle.
- The two got together, and when Jim returned to the Bolton area, Maureen moved across the Pennines to join him.
- His shot across the penalty area after good work by Neal Ardley lacked the power to trouble Paddy Kenny.
- Leading me back across the hall he turns to roar approval as his PR man taps some panelling to prove that it is not real marble.
- She didn't even try to swim, but the waves of the lake carried her across to the other side.
- A conventional bomb could then be used to spread radioactive particles across a densely populated area.
- When he returned an intelligent ball back across the six-yard area, Thompson slid in to bundle it over the line.
- Police believe that as she was driving out of the forecourt, she failed to negotiate the bend and drove across the grass area.
- American troops spread out across the area yesterday to investigate what had happened and question witnesses.
- Like a little boy being led across a busy street by his mother, we will guide you.
- Unfortunately, when we reached half way across the bridge a middle-aged man was speeding up behind us.
- Then in injury time, Miller's searching header back across a crowded area wreaked momentary havoc.
- To travel across to the other side of the world with a woman I love, to meet up with a man I love?
- With easterly winds often travelling across the industrial areas of Europe, the visibility can be quite poor.
- Eight minutes later, he hit a neat pass across the penalty area before Todorov slipped the ball past Friedel.
- A lot of glass flew across the classroom and some of the children were quite alarmed.
- So as not to spoil it I've hidden the text as white though, so if you want to see it you need to drag your mouse across the blank looking area below.
Synonyms
to the other side of, from one side of … to the other, over, throughout the width/expanse of, covering, everywhere on, on all parts of
1. 1.1as adverb Used with an expression of measurement.
  与度量用语连用宽
  mounds some 30 metres across
  大约30米宽的土墩。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The arrays will hold four dishes measuring approximately seven feet across.
  It was about fifteen feet high, and fifteen feet across, in the shape of a huge block.
  They were standing inside a large circle, probably measuring about one hundred feet across.
  A high resolution camera will also sweep the surface, resolving details as small as two metres across.
  In fact, there was so much food that special tables were made for the occasion, about two metres across.
  Think of us as a bullseye the size of a quarter in the middle of a target 11 feet across.
  The other is lighter in colour, oval, about two feet across and has two indentations ground into its centre.
  There was a gouge three foot across where the anchor had been winched up, ripping corals out with it.
  Once in a while, the funnel of air drops from the sky - it can be as narrow as a few metres across or as wide as two kilometres.
  Mr Mitchell said it was the ideal place to hold his first exhibition, which features paintings up to ten feet across.
  The hole was about eighteen feet across and lay just over the rim of a low hill that rose in a long gentle slope from the side of our farm.
  Douglas designed two reflection pools, about half a metre across and made of slate.
  Young men in white shirts and red sashes grasped each other round the shoulders to form a ring fifteen feet across.
  At about three feet in height and two feet across, it fits into the garden almost anywhere.
  Could a bird that is said to be 20 metres across be able to escape detection for so long?
  He proposes to build a stone cairn six or seven feet high and 12 to 14 feet across, either inside the fold or next to it.
  But those pincers could grow three or four times as big, on the end of arms five feet long, and bodies nine feet across.
  It measured 670 feet across and depicted a chain of crescents around a central circle.
  In my memory the selected shell was about a foot across and 6 inches deep, the oyster inside a monster of the deep.
  The set was dominated by a grid of windmills, each a metre across.
2Expressing position or orientation.
表示方位、方向对过，横过
as preposition they lived across the street from one another
他们两个隔街居住。
the bridge across the river
跨越河流的桥。
as adverb he looked across at me
他朝我看过来。
halfway across, Jenny jumped
到了中途，珍妮就跳了起来。
Example sentencesExamples
- For more than 20 years the estate - and many like it across the area - was neglected.
- A new pedestrian bridge across the Cross river has just been completed by Mayo County Council.
- In this way it hopes to boost living standards across a broad swathe of poor rural society.
- He had a gold earring in his right ear, and a tiny scar across the bridge of his nose.
- It justifies a larger space and needs some benevolent soul to offer a venue and find the time to liaise with art teachers across the area.
- To the east the magnificent new bridge stretches across the Oresund Sea to Malmo in Sweden.
- This led to flooding across many areas of agricultural land, leaving potato crops in ruin.
- Out of the corner of my eye I can see CCTV's main camera lock on to my position from across the road.
- Attacks on buses are being logged, and police are involved in operations across the area aimed at clamping down on the thugs.
- He could feel Tyna lift her head up from her awkward position across her shoulder.
- Scot runs an athletics club whose members train on the school's playing field for junior school pupils from across the area.
- Dozens more were at risk of collapsing as heavy rains continued across the area, authorities said.
- The main attraction is the Storms River and the suspension bridge that stretches across its mouth.
- I am not a celeb but as luck would have it, I have friends living across a wide geographical stretch.
- Figures released this week provide an average house price across all of this area of £98,000.
- Business, community groups and individuals across the area took part in last month's Macmillan event.
- Coun Powell said people living across the river from the gypsy camp had complained of being kept awake by noise from generators.
- Mr Howard has effectively written off the party's chances of winning seats in urban areas across the north of England.
- He said the Flower Bridge should be built across a narrow stretch of water that was not so busy with river traffic.
- In many ways the local authority has its hands tied and is in the same unenviable position as councils across the country.
Synonyms
on the other side of, over, beyond, past
3as adverb Referring to a crossword answer which reads horizontally.
横向字谜答案
19 across
第19行。
Example sentencesExamples
- (1 across) The perfect source of digital interactive television.

Phrases

across the board

1Applying to all.
全面的
the cutbacks might be across the board
可能全面缩减。
Example sentencesExamples
- This is a public policy decision which has to be applied across the board.
- Mr Henderson said the money was not earmarked for either secondary or primary education but was general funding across the board.
- Values such as scientific rationalism and secularism are today on the retreat in all areas of life, and across the board in education.
- Apply this principle across the board to other areas of life and you lose more than you gain.
- The plan commits the council to tackle the way it operates across the board - from the way it is structured to how it delivers services.
- When asked where exactly the cuts would be made, Mr Collins said the savings would have to come from across the board.
- We've heard nothing but praise for this film so far, but strangely it gets three stars across the board from the broadsheet reviewers.
- Beyond any purely national relevance, many of his points apply right across the board.
- It's a pretty simple concept, and apparently it applies across the board, no exceptions.
- This applies right across the board, as people are keen to find out news from home or find out information on an area.
- That is, if tariffs were applied, then they were applied across the board.
- So it's something that needs to be looked at right across the board.
- The problem here is coordination, and it's coordination across the board.
- The side dishes and appetizers were okay, but uneven across the board.
- It allows schools to build a centre of excellence, and use that specialist excellence and ethos to raise standards across the board.
- So greater regulation and enforcement of industrial laws are needed, but they must apply across the board.
- He said it was most likely that the eventual pay deal will result in increases of around 3.44 per cent across the board.
- And better childcare for women could increase the female participation in the workforce across the board.
- The first wave of fresh buying often goes into tracker funds, which invest in shares across the board, irrespective of the sector.
- A low-fat diet and exercise, however, produced strong results across the board.
2(in horse racing) denoting a bet in which equal amounts are staked on the same horse to win, place, or show in a race.
〈美〉（赛马用语）综合赌注（对同一匹马在比赛中胜出，名次或出现的情况都下相同赌注）
Example sentencesExamples
- The BBC, sensing a winner, cashed in all their espionage chips, and placed bets across the board.

across from

Opposite.
对面
she sat across from me
她坐在我对面。
Example sentencesExamples
- Just across from the entrance to the grounds the grass is being cut on the public space.
- She didn't seem to have noticed the man standing on the traffic island directly across from her.
- So he sits down across from me in one of the chairs they have set up in the the waiting area patio.
- John spots Susan sitting across from him at an insider LA eatery and makes his way over to her table.
- It has been five and a half years now since they last sat across from each other at a table.
- However, that morning a young boy with extremely dark skin was sitting across from us.
- For the past couple of months, I've been following the vicissitudes of a guy living across from me.
- In the hospital, after school, he sat on one side of the bed, across from his mother.
- The man across from me thinks I'm smiling at him so he smiles at me smiling, and I smile even more.
- One of the amazing things was there were three unoccupied seats just across from me.
- We live right across from the desert in the foothills of the Tucson Mountains.
- One of the men across from us reminds me of a fish, his lips and something slimy they do when he looks at me.
- The outlet is based at Friary Road in Naas just across from the motor tax office.
- She sat down across from me at the one available picnic table in the cobbled courtyard outside our building.
- There was a pitch and putt course across from my house and we all played.
- If you can get a good spot just across from the exit to the emergency room, you're set.
- Matt watches her from across the way, since her window is exactly across from his.
- Then he leaned forward with a wide smile and slapped a high-five on the hand of someone sitting across from him.
- She scolded the man across from her who refused to give up his seat to a lady.
- The site is located down a laneway beside the canal across from the Hazel hotel.
Synonyms
facing, face to face with, across from

be (or get) across something

Fully understand all the details of an issue or situation.
〈澳〉明了，洞悉（问题或情境的详情，复杂性）
the legislation is mind-bogglingly complex and you really need to be across it
Example sentencesExamples
- We were fortunate to have a very thoughtful and perceptive Minister who was across the issues involved in the WorkCover Scheme reform.
- I was reading military journals in bed at night, just to get across the technical detail we needed to know.
- If that's the case, then collectively they should be across all media details and at least one member should have spotted the footage for what it was.
- So Mr Peters should not continue to say that he is across this issue and representing the views of farmers, because we are saying that that is not essentially the issue.

Origin

Middle English (as an adverb meaning 'in the form of a cross'): from Old French a croix, en croix 'in or on a cross', later regarded as being from a-² + cross.

Early use was as an adverb meaning ‘in the form of a cross’; the word comes from Old French a croix, en croix ‘in or on a cross’.

Rhymes

boss, Bros, cos, cross, crosse, doss, dross, emboss, en brosse, floss, fosse, gloss, Goss, joss, Kos, lacrosse, loss, moss, MS-DOS, Ross

Definition of across in US English:

across

preposition & adverb

1From one side to the other of (something).
从…一边到另一边
1. 1.1 Expressing movement over a place or region.
  表示运动经过一地方或区域越过
  I ran across the street
  我奔跑过街。
  traveling across Europe
  穿越欧洲旅行。
  as adverb he had swum across
  他已经游过去了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Like a little boy being led across a busy street by his mother, we will guide you.
  The boy shrugged and walked across it to the side with the handle.
  Police believe that as she was driving out of the forecourt, she failed to negotiate the bend and drove across the grass area.
  Two young boys were playing football indiscriminately across the area with a plastic bottle.
  His shot across the penalty area after good work by Neal Ardley lacked the power to trouble Paddy Kenny.
  To travel across to the other side of the world with a woman I love, to meet up with a man I love?
  A lot of glass flew across the classroom and some of the children were quite alarmed.
  When he returned an intelligent ball back across the six-yard area, Thompson slid in to bundle it over the line.
  Ramblers celebrated the launch of new right to roam laws by taking a stroll across former no-go areas all over the north west.
  Eight minutes later, he hit a neat pass across the penalty area before Todorov slipped the ball past Friedel.
  Leading me back across the hall he turns to roar approval as his PR man taps some panelling to prove that it is not real marble.
  Pieces of the aircraft were strewn across a vast area.
  She didn't even try to swim, but the waves of the lake carried her across to the other side.
  The two got together, and when Jim returned to the Bolton area, Maureen moved across the Pennines to join him.
  A conventional bomb could then be used to spread radioactive particles across a densely populated area.
  With easterly winds often travelling across the industrial areas of Europe, the visibility can be quite poor.
  Unfortunately, when we reached half way across the bridge a middle-aged man was speeding up behind us.
  So as not to spoil it I've hidden the text as white though, so if you want to see it you need to drag your mouse across the blank looking area below.
  Then in injury time, Miller's searching header back across a crowded area wreaked momentary havoc.
  American troops spread out across the area yesterday to investigate what had happened and question witnesses.
  Synonyms
  to the other side of, from one side of … to the other, over, throughout the expanse of, throughout the width of, covering, everywhere on, on all parts of
2. 1.2 Expressing position or orientation.
  表示方位、方向对过，横过
  they lived across the street from one another
  他们两个隔街居住。
  the bridge across the river
  跨越河流的桥。
  as adverb he looked across at me
  他朝我看过来。
  halfway across, Jenny jumped
  到了中途，珍妮就跳了起来。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The main attraction is the Storms River and the suspension bridge that stretches across its mouth.
  He said the Flower Bridge should be built across a narrow stretch of water that was not so busy with river traffic.
  He had a gold earring in his right ear, and a tiny scar across the bridge of his nose.
  For more than 20 years the estate - and many like it across the area - was neglected.
  I am not a celeb but as luck would have it, I have friends living across a wide geographical stretch.
  Dozens more were at risk of collapsing as heavy rains continued across the area, authorities said.
  To the east the magnificent new bridge stretches across the Oresund Sea to Malmo in Sweden.
  He could feel Tyna lift her head up from her awkward position across her shoulder.
  This led to flooding across many areas of agricultural land, leaving potato crops in ruin.
  It justifies a larger space and needs some benevolent soul to offer a venue and find the time to liaise with art teachers across the area.
  Coun Powell said people living across the river from the gypsy camp had complained of being kept awake by noise from generators.
  A new pedestrian bridge across the Cross river has just been completed by Mayo County Council.
  Mr Howard has effectively written off the party's chances of winning seats in urban areas across the north of England.
  In many ways the local authority has its hands tied and is in the same unenviable position as councils across the country.
  Scot runs an athletics club whose members train on the school's playing field for junior school pupils from across the area.
  Business, community groups and individuals across the area took part in last month's Macmillan event.
  Out of the corner of my eye I can see CCTV's main camera lock on to my position from across the road.
  In this way it hopes to boost living standards across a broad swathe of poor rural society.
  Figures released this week provide an average house price across all of this area of £98,000.
  Attacks on buses are being logged, and police are involved in operations across the area aimed at clamping down on the thugs.
  Synonyms
  on the other side of, over, beyond, past
3. 1.3as adverb Used with an expression of measurement.
  与度量用语连用宽
  can grow to 4 feet across
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was about fifteen feet high, and fifteen feet across, in the shape of a huge block.
  At about three feet in height and two feet across, it fits into the garden almost anywhere.
  But those pincers could grow three or four times as big, on the end of arms five feet long, and bodies nine feet across.
  He proposes to build a stone cairn six or seven feet high and 12 to 14 feet across, either inside the fold or next to it.
  The other is lighter in colour, oval, about two feet across and has two indentations ground into its centre.
  Once in a while, the funnel of air drops from the sky - it can be as narrow as a few metres across or as wide as two kilometres.
  In fact, there was so much food that special tables were made for the occasion, about two metres across.
  There was a gouge three foot across where the anchor had been winched up, ripping corals out with it.
  Douglas designed two reflection pools, about half a metre across and made of slate.
  The set was dominated by a grid of windmills, each a metre across.
  Young men in white shirts and red sashes grasped each other round the shoulders to form a ring fifteen feet across.
  Mr Mitchell said it was the ideal place to hold his first exhibition, which features paintings up to ten feet across.
  Think of us as a bullseye the size of a quarter in the middle of a target 11 feet across.
  They were standing inside a large circle, probably measuring about one hundred feet across.
  The hole was about eighteen feet across and lay just over the rim of a low hill that rose in a long gentle slope from the side of our farm.
  Could a bird that is said to be 20 metres across be able to escape detection for so long?
  In my memory the selected shell was about a foot across and 6 inches deep, the oyster inside a monster of the deep.
  A high resolution camera will also sweep the surface, resolving details as small as two metres across.
  The arrays will hold four dishes measuring approximately seven feet across.
  It measured 670 feet across and depicted a chain of crescents around a central circle.
4. 1.4as adverb With reference to a crossword puzzle answer that reads horizontally.
  横向字谜答案
  19 across
  第19行。
  Example sentencesExamples
  (1 across) The perfect source of digital interactive television.

Phrases

across the board

1Applying to all.
全面的
the cutbacks might be across the board
可能全面缩减。
Example sentencesExamples
- So it's something that needs to be looked at right across the board.
- And better childcare for women could increase the female participation in the workforce across the board.
- Beyond any purely national relevance, many of his points apply right across the board.
- Apply this principle across the board to other areas of life and you lose more than you gain.
- The side dishes and appetizers were okay, but uneven across the board.
- The plan commits the council to tackle the way it operates across the board - from the way it is structured to how it delivers services.
- So greater regulation and enforcement of industrial laws are needed, but they must apply across the board.
- A low-fat diet and exercise, however, produced strong results across the board.
- Values such as scientific rationalism and secularism are today on the retreat in all areas of life, and across the board in education.
- The first wave of fresh buying often goes into tracker funds, which invest in shares across the board, irrespective of the sector.
- That is, if tariffs were applied, then they were applied across the board.
- He said it was most likely that the eventual pay deal will result in increases of around 3.44 per cent across the board.
- This applies right across the board, as people are keen to find out news from home or find out information on an area.
- When asked where exactly the cuts would be made, Mr Collins said the savings would have to come from across the board.
- It allows schools to build a centre of excellence, and use that specialist excellence and ethos to raise standards across the board.
- We've heard nothing but praise for this film so far, but strangely it gets three stars across the board from the broadsheet reviewers.
- Mr Henderson said the money was not earmarked for either secondary or primary education but was general funding across the board.
- The problem here is coordination, and it's coordination across the board.
- This is a public policy decision which has to be applied across the board.
- It's a pretty simple concept, and apparently it applies across the board, no exceptions.
1. 1.1US (in horse racing) denoting a bet in which equal amounts are staked on the same horse to win, place, or show in a race.
  〈美〉（赛马用语）综合赌注（对同一匹马在比赛中胜出，名次或出现的情况都下相同赌注）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The BBC, sensing a winner, cashed in all their espionage chips, and placed bets across the board.

across from

Opposite.
对面
she sat across from me
她坐在我对面。
Example sentencesExamples
- There was a pitch and putt course across from my house and we all played.
- The outlet is based at Friary Road in Naas just across from the motor tax office.
- However, that morning a young boy with extremely dark skin was sitting across from us.
- In the hospital, after school, he sat on one side of the bed, across from his mother.
- She sat down across from me at the one available picnic table in the cobbled courtyard outside our building.
- The man across from me thinks I'm smiling at him so he smiles at me smiling, and I smile even more.
- John spots Susan sitting across from him at an insider LA eatery and makes his way over to her table.
- One of the amazing things was there were three unoccupied seats just across from me.
- We live right across from the desert in the foothills of the Tucson Mountains.
- For the past couple of months, I've been following the vicissitudes of a guy living across from me.
- Just across from the entrance to the grounds the grass is being cut on the public space.
- The site is located down a laneway beside the canal across from the Hazel hotel.
- If you can get a good spot just across from the exit to the emergency room, you're set.
- It has been five and a half years now since they last sat across from each other at a table.
- She scolded the man across from her who refused to give up his seat to a lady.
- She didn't seem to have noticed the man standing on the traffic island directly across from her.
- Then he leaned forward with a wide smile and slapped a high-five on the hand of someone sitting across from him.
- Matt watches her from across the way, since her window is exactly across from his.
- One of the men across from us reminds me of a fish, his lips and something slimy they do when he looks at me.
- So he sits down across from me in one of the chairs they have set up in the the waiting area patio.
Synonyms
facing, face to face with, across from

Origin

Middle English (as an adverb meaning ‘in the form of a cross’): from Old French a croix, en croix ‘in or on a cross’, later regarded as being from a- + cross.

单词	across
释义	Definition of across in English: across preposition & adverb əˈkrɒs 1From one side to the other of (a place, area, etc.) 从…一边到另一边 as preposition I ran across the street 我奔跑过街。 travelling across Europe 穿越欧洲旅行。 as adverb he had swum across 他已经游过去了。 Example sentencesExamples Ramblers celebrated the launch of new right to roam laws by taking a stroll across former no-go areas all over the north west. Pieces of the aircraft were strewn across a vast area. The boy shrugged and walked across it to the side with the handle. Two young boys were playing football indiscriminately across the area with a plastic bottle. The two got together, and when Jim returned to the Bolton area, Maureen moved across the Pennines to join him. His shot across the penalty area after good work by Neal Ardley lacked the power to trouble Paddy Kenny. Leading me back across the hall he turns to roar approval as his PR man taps some panelling to prove that it is not real marble. She didn't even try to swim, but the waves of the lake carried her across to the other side. A conventional bomb could then be used to spread radioactive particles across a densely populated area. When he returned an intelligent ball back across the six-yard area, Thompson slid in to bundle it over the line. Police believe that as she was driving out of the forecourt, she failed to negotiate the bend and drove across the grass area. American troops spread out across the area yesterday to investigate what had happened and question witnesses. Like a little boy being led across a busy street by his mother, we will guide you. Unfortunately, when we reached half way across the bridge a middle-aged man was speeding up behind us. Then in injury time, Miller's searching header back across a crowded area wreaked momentary havoc. To travel across to the other side of the world with a woman I love, to meet up with a man I love? With easterly winds often travelling across the industrial areas of Europe, the visibility can be quite poor. Eight minutes later, he hit a neat pass across the penalty area before Todorov slipped the ball past Friedel. A lot of glass flew across the classroom and some of the children were quite alarmed. So as not to spoil it I've hidden the text as white though, so if you want to see it you need to drag your mouse across the blank looking area below. Synonyms to the other side of, from one side of … to the other, over, throughout the width/expanse of, covering, everywhere on, on all parts of 1.1as adverb Used with an expression of measurement. 与度量用语连用宽 mounds some 30 metres across 大约30米宽的土墩。 Example sentencesExamples The arrays will hold four dishes measuring approximately seven feet across. It was about fifteen feet high, and fifteen feet across, in the shape of a huge block. They were standing inside a large circle, probably measuring about one hundred feet across. A high resolution camera will also sweep the surface, resolving details as small as two metres across. In fact, there was so much food that special tables were made for the occasion, about two metres across. Think of us as a bullseye the size of a quarter in the middle of a target 11 feet across. The other is lighter in colour, oval, about two feet across and has two indentations ground into its centre. There was a gouge three foot across where the anchor had been winched up, ripping corals out with it. Once in a while, the funnel of air drops from the sky - it can be as narrow as a few metres across or as wide as two kilometres. Mr Mitchell said it was the ideal place to hold his first exhibition, which features paintings up to ten feet across. The hole was about eighteen feet across and lay just over the rim of a low hill that rose in a long gentle slope from the side of our farm. Douglas designed two reflection pools, about half a metre across and made of slate. Young men in white shirts and red sashes grasped each other round the shoulders to form a ring fifteen feet across. At about three feet in height and two feet across, it fits into the garden almost anywhere. Could a bird that is said to be 20 metres across be able to escape detection for so long? He proposes to build a stone cairn six or seven feet high and 12 to 14 feet across, either inside the fold or next to it. But those pincers could grow three or four times as big, on the end of arms five feet long, and bodies nine feet across. It measured 670 feet across and depicted a chain of crescents around a central circle. In my memory the selected shell was about a foot across and 6 inches deep, the oyster inside a monster of the deep. The set was dominated by a grid of windmills, each a metre across. 2Expressing position or orientation. 表示方位、方向对过，横过 as preposition they lived across the street from one another 他们两个隔街居住。 the bridge across the river 跨越河流的桥。 as adverb he looked across at me 他朝我看过来。 halfway across, Jenny jumped 到了中途，珍妮就跳了起来。 Example sentencesExamples For more than 20 years the estate - and many like it across the area - was neglected. A new pedestrian bridge across the Cross river has just been completed by Mayo County Council. In this way it hopes to boost living standards across a broad swathe of poor rural society. He had a gold earring in his right ear, and a tiny scar across the bridge of his nose. It justifies a larger space and needs some benevolent soul to offer a venue and find the time to liaise with art teachers across the area. To the east the magnificent new bridge stretches across the Oresund Sea to Malmo in Sweden. This led to flooding across many areas of agricultural land, leaving potato crops in ruin. Out of the corner of my eye I can see CCTV's main camera lock on to my position from across the road. Attacks on buses are being logged, and police are involved in operations across the area aimed at clamping down on the thugs. He could feel Tyna lift her head up from her awkward position across her shoulder. Scot runs an athletics club whose members train on the school's playing field for junior school pupils from across the area. Dozens more were at risk of collapsing as heavy rains continued across the area, authorities said. The main attraction is the Storms River and the suspension bridge that stretches across its mouth. I am not a celeb but as luck would have it, I have friends living across a wide geographical stretch. Figures released this week provide an average house price across all of this area of £98,000. Business, community groups and individuals across the area took part in last month's Macmillan event. Coun Powell said people living across the river from the gypsy camp had complained of being kept awake by noise from generators. Mr Howard has effectively written off the party's chances of winning seats in urban areas across the north of England. He said the Flower Bridge should be built across a narrow stretch of water that was not so busy with river traffic. In many ways the local authority has its hands tied and is in the same unenviable position as councils across the country. Synonyms on the other side of, over, beyond, past 3as adverb Referring to a crossword answer which reads horizontally. 横向字谜答案 19 across 第19行。 Example sentencesExamples (1 across) The perfect source of digital interactive television. Phrases across the board 1Applying to all. 全面的 the cutbacks might be across the board 可能全面缩减。 Example sentencesExamples This is a public policy decision which has to be applied across the board. Mr Henderson said the money was not earmarked for either secondary or primary education but was general funding across the board. Values such as scientific rationalism and secularism are today on the retreat in all areas of life, and across the board in education. Apply this principle across the board to other areas of life and you lose more than you gain. The plan commits the council to tackle the way it operates across the board - from the way it is structured to how it delivers services. When asked where exactly the cuts would be made, Mr Collins said the savings would have to come from across the board. We've heard nothing but praise for this film so far, but strangely it gets three stars across the board from the broadsheet reviewers. Beyond any purely national relevance, many of his points apply right across the board. It's a pretty simple concept, and apparently it applies across the board, no exceptions. This applies right across the board, as people are keen to find out news from home or find out information on an area. That is, if tariffs were applied, then they were applied across the board. So it's something that needs to be looked at right across the board. The problem here is coordination, and it's coordination across the board. The side dishes and appetizers were okay, but uneven across the board. It allows schools to build a centre of excellence, and use that specialist excellence and ethos to raise standards across the board. So greater regulation and enforcement of industrial laws are needed, but they must apply across the board. He said it was most likely that the eventual pay deal will result in increases of around 3.44 per cent across the board. And better childcare for women could increase the female participation in the workforce across the board. The first wave of fresh buying often goes into tracker funds, which invest in shares across the board, irrespective of the sector. A low-fat diet and exercise, however, produced strong results across the board. 2(in horse racing) denoting a bet in which equal amounts are staked on the same horse to win, place, or show in a race. 〈美〉（赛马用语）综合赌注（对同一匹马在比赛中胜出，名次或出现的情况都下相同赌注） Example sentencesExamples The BBC, sensing a winner, cashed in all their espionage chips, and placed bets across the board. across from Opposite. 对面 she sat across from me 她坐在我对面。 Example sentencesExamples Just across from the entrance to the grounds the grass is being cut on the public space. She didn't seem to have noticed the man standing on the traffic island directly across from her. So he sits down across from me in one of the chairs they have set up in the the waiting area patio. John spots Susan sitting across from him at an insider LA eatery and makes his way over to her table. It has been five and a half years now since they last sat across from each other at a table. However, that morning a young boy with extremely dark skin was sitting across from us. For the past couple of months, I've been following the vicissitudes of a guy living across from me. In the hospital, after school, he sat on one side of the bed, across from his mother. The man across from me thinks I'm smiling at him so he smiles at me smiling, and I smile even more. One of the amazing things was there were three unoccupied seats just across from me. We live right across from the desert in the foothills of the Tucson Mountains. One of the men across from us reminds me of a fish, his lips and something slimy they do when he looks at me. The outlet is based at Friary Road in Naas just across from the motor tax office. She sat down across from me at the one available picnic table in the cobbled courtyard outside our building. There was a pitch and putt course across from my house and we all played. If you can get a good spot just across from the exit to the emergency room, you're set. Matt watches her from across the way, since her window is exactly across from his. Then he leaned forward with a wide smile and slapped a high-five on the hand of someone sitting across from him. She scolded the man across from her who refused to give up his seat to a lady. The site is located down a laneway beside the canal across from the Hazel hotel. Synonyms facing, face to face with, across from be (or get) across something Fully understand all the details of an issue or situation. 〈澳〉明了，洞悉（问题或情境的详情，复杂性） the legislation is mind-bogglingly complex and you really need to be across it Example sentencesExamples We were fortunate to have a very thoughtful and perceptive Minister who was across the issues involved in the WorkCover Scheme reform. I was reading military journals in bed at night, just to get across the technical detail we needed to know. If that's the case, then collectively they should be across all media details and at least one member should have spotted the footage for what it was. So Mr Peters should not continue to say that he is across this issue and representing the views of farmers, because we are saying that that is not essentially the issue. Origin Middle English (as an adverb meaning 'in the form of a cross'): from Old French a croix, en croix 'in or on a cross', later regarded as being from a-² + cross. Early use was as an adverb meaning ‘in the form of a cross’; the word comes from Old French a croix, en croix ‘in or on a cross’. Rhymes boss, Bros, cos, cross, crosse, doss, dross, emboss, en brosse, floss, fosse, gloss, Goss, joss, Kos, lacrosse, loss, moss, MS-DOS, Ross prep.1 phr. Definition of across in US English: across preposition & adverb 1From one side to the other of (something). 从…一边到另一边 1.1 Expressing movement over a place or region. 表示运动经过一地方或区域越过 I ran across the street 我奔跑过街。 traveling across Europe 穿越欧洲旅行。 as adverb he had swum across 他已经游过去了。 Example sentencesExamples Like a little boy being led across a busy street by his mother, we will guide you. The boy shrugged and walked across it to the side with the handle. Police believe that as she was driving out of the forecourt, she failed to negotiate the bend and drove across the grass area. Two young boys were playing football indiscriminately across the area with a plastic bottle. His shot across the penalty area after good work by Neal Ardley lacked the power to trouble Paddy Kenny. To travel across to the other side of the world with a woman I love, to meet up with a man I love? A lot of glass flew across the classroom and some of the children were quite alarmed. When he returned an intelligent ball back across the six-yard area, Thompson slid in to bundle it over the line. Ramblers celebrated the launch of new right to roam laws by taking a stroll across former no-go areas all over the north west. Eight minutes later, he hit a neat pass across the penalty area before Todorov slipped the ball past Friedel. Leading me back across the hall he turns to roar approval as his PR man taps some panelling to prove that it is not real marble. Pieces of the aircraft were strewn across a vast area. She didn't even try to swim, but the waves of the lake carried her across to the other side. The two got together, and when Jim returned to the Bolton area, Maureen moved across the Pennines to join him. A conventional bomb could then be used to spread radioactive particles across a densely populated area. With easterly winds often travelling across the industrial areas of Europe, the visibility can be quite poor. Unfortunately, when we reached half way across the bridge a middle-aged man was speeding up behind us. So as not to spoil it I've hidden the text as white though, so if you want to see it you need to drag your mouse across the blank looking area below. Then in injury time, Miller's searching header back across a crowded area wreaked momentary havoc. American troops spread out across the area yesterday to investigate what had happened and question witnesses. Synonyms to the other side of, from one side of … to the other, over, throughout the expanse of, throughout the width of, covering, everywhere on, on all parts of 1.2 Expressing position or orientation. 表示方位、方向对过，横过 they lived across the street from one another 他们两个隔街居住。 the bridge across the river 跨越河流的桥。 as adverb he looked across at me 他朝我看过来。 halfway across, Jenny jumped 到了中途，珍妮就跳了起来。 Example sentencesExamples The main attraction is the Storms River and the suspension bridge that stretches across its mouth. He said the Flower Bridge should be built across a narrow stretch of water that was not so busy with river traffic. He had a gold earring in his right ear, and a tiny scar across the bridge of his nose. For more than 20 years the estate - and many like it across the area - was neglected. I am not a celeb but as luck would have it, I have friends living across a wide geographical stretch. Dozens more were at risk of collapsing as heavy rains continued across the area, authorities said. To the east the magnificent new bridge stretches across the Oresund Sea to Malmo in Sweden. He could feel Tyna lift her head up from her awkward position across her shoulder. This led to flooding across many areas of agricultural land, leaving potato crops in ruin. It justifies a larger space and needs some benevolent soul to offer a venue and find the time to liaise with art teachers across the area. Coun Powell said people living across the river from the gypsy camp had complained of being kept awake by noise from generators. A new pedestrian bridge across the Cross river has just been completed by Mayo County Council. Mr Howard has effectively written off the party's chances of winning seats in urban areas across the north of England. In many ways the local authority has its hands tied and is in the same unenviable position as councils across the country. Scot runs an athletics club whose members train on the school's playing field for junior school pupils from across the area. Business, community groups and individuals across the area took part in last month's Macmillan event. Out of the corner of my eye I can see CCTV's main camera lock on to my position from across the road. In this way it hopes to boost living standards across a broad swathe of poor rural society. Figures released this week provide an average house price across all of this area of £98,000. Attacks on buses are being logged, and police are involved in operations across the area aimed at clamping down on the thugs. Synonyms on the other side of, over, beyond, past 1.3as adverb Used with an expression of measurement. 与度量用语连用宽 can grow to 4 feet across Example sentencesExamples It was about fifteen feet high, and fifteen feet across, in the shape of a huge block. At about three feet in height and two feet across, it fits into the garden almost anywhere. But those pincers could grow three or four times as big, on the end of arms five feet long, and bodies nine feet across. He proposes to build a stone cairn six or seven feet high and 12 to 14 feet across, either inside the fold or next to it. The other is lighter in colour, oval, about two feet across and has two indentations ground into its centre. Once in a while, the funnel of air drops from the sky - it can be as narrow as a few metres across or as wide as two kilometres. In fact, there was so much food that special tables were made for the occasion, about two metres across. There was a gouge three foot across where the anchor had been winched up, ripping corals out with it. Douglas designed two reflection pools, about half a metre across and made of slate. The set was dominated by a grid of windmills, each a metre across. Young men in white shirts and red sashes grasped each other round the shoulders to form a ring fifteen feet across. Mr Mitchell said it was the ideal place to hold his first exhibition, which features paintings up to ten feet across. Think of us as a bullseye the size of a quarter in the middle of a target 11 feet across. They were standing inside a large circle, probably measuring about one hundred feet across. The hole was about eighteen feet across and lay just over the rim of a low hill that rose in a long gentle slope from the side of our farm. Could a bird that is said to be 20 metres across be able to escape detection for so long? In my memory the selected shell was about a foot across and 6 inches deep, the oyster inside a monster of the deep. A high resolution camera will also sweep the surface, resolving details as small as two metres across. The arrays will hold four dishes measuring approximately seven feet across. It measured 670 feet across and depicted a chain of crescents around a central circle. 1.4as adverb With reference to a crossword puzzle answer that reads horizontally. 横向字谜答案 19 across 第19行。 Example sentencesExamples (1 across) The perfect source of digital interactive television. Phrases across the board 1Applying to all. 全面的 the cutbacks might be across the board 可能全面缩减。 Example sentencesExamples So it's something that needs to be looked at right across the board. And better childcare for women could increase the female participation in the workforce across the board. Beyond any purely national relevance, many of his points apply right across the board. Apply this principle across the board to other areas of life and you lose more than you gain. The side dishes and appetizers were okay, but uneven across the board. The plan commits the council to tackle the way it operates across the board - from the way it is structured to how it delivers services. So greater regulation and enforcement of industrial laws are needed, but they must apply across the board. A low-fat diet and exercise, however, produced strong results across the board. Values such as scientific rationalism and secularism are today on the retreat in all areas of life, and across the board in education. The first wave of fresh buying often goes into tracker funds, which invest in shares across the board, irrespective of the sector. That is, if tariffs were applied, then they were applied across the board. He said it was most likely that the eventual pay deal will result in increases of around 3.44 per cent across the board. This applies right across the board, as people are keen to find out news from home or find out information on an area. When asked where exactly the cuts would be made, Mr Collins said the savings would have to come from across the board. It allows schools to build a centre of excellence, and use that specialist excellence and ethos to raise standards across the board. We've heard nothing but praise for this film so far, but strangely it gets three stars across the board from the broadsheet reviewers. Mr Henderson said the money was not earmarked for either secondary or primary education but was general funding across the board. The problem here is coordination, and it's coordination across the board. This is a public policy decision which has to be applied across the board. It's a pretty simple concept, and apparently it applies across the board, no exceptions. 1.1US (in horse racing) denoting a bet in which equal amounts are staked on the same horse to win, place, or show in a race. 〈美〉（赛马用语）综合赌注（对同一匹马在比赛中胜出，名次或出现的情况都下相同赌注） Example sentencesExamples The BBC, sensing a winner, cashed in all their espionage chips, and placed bets across the board. across from Opposite. 对面 she sat across from me 她坐在我对面。 Example sentencesExamples There was a pitch and putt course across from my house and we all played. The outlet is based at Friary Road in Naas just across from the motor tax office. However, that morning a young boy with extremely dark skin was sitting across from us. In the hospital, after school, he sat on one side of the bed, across from his mother. She sat down across from me at the one available picnic table in the cobbled courtyard outside our building. The man across from me thinks I'm smiling at him so he smiles at me smiling, and I smile even more. John spots Susan sitting across from him at an insider LA eatery and makes his way over to her table. One of the amazing things was there were three unoccupied seats just across from me. We live right across from the desert in the foothills of the Tucson Mountains. For the past couple of months, I've been following the vicissitudes of a guy living across from me. Just across from the entrance to the grounds the grass is being cut on the public space. The site is located down a laneway beside the canal across from the Hazel hotel. If you can get a good spot just across from the exit to the emergency room, you're set. It has been five and a half years now since they last sat across from each other at a table. She scolded the man across from her who refused to give up his seat to a lady. She didn't seem to have noticed the man standing on the traffic island directly across from her. Then he leaned forward with a wide smile and slapped a high-five on the hand of someone sitting across from him. Matt watches her from across the way, since her window is exactly across from his. One of the men across from us reminds me of a fish, his lips and something slimy they do when he looks at me. So he sits down across from me in one of the chairs they have set up in the the waiting area patio. Synonyms facing, face to face with, across from Origin Middle English (as an adverb meaning ‘in the form of a cross’): from Old French a croix, en croix ‘in or on a cross’, later regarded as being from a- + cross. prep.1 phr.
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