Definition of hurdle in English:

hurdle

noun ˈhəːd(ə)lˈhərdl

1One of a series of upright frames over which athletes in a race must jump.
（跨栏赛跑时用的）栏架
as modifier a hurdle race
Example sentencesExamples
- The hoarding, the structure on which an ad is placed, is related to the hurdle over which athletes jump.
- Leaping over a pile of pale, loose terracotta bricks that stood in their way like a race hurdle, the two skidded to a sudden halt when Ronnie stopped at the edge of her own private dock.
- The athletes form a line behind the cone hurdles and must run to each hurdle, stop dead in front of it, then with both feet together, jump over the hurdle, landing on the toes.
- There were hurdles and obstacles all about the course.
- She jumped a series of hurdles for what seemed like the thousandth time, and then looked up at the wall in front of her.
- A chase involves larger, rigid fences while a hurdle race is run over shorter, more flexible obstacles.
- Pittman injured herself during a warm-up before her Zurich race, landing awkwardly after clearing a hurdle.
- In this sport, though, the owner will run alongside the dog encouraging it over the hurdles and other obstacles.
- You can't question his form, but he is not the most fluent jumper of hurdles and might not be suited by the tough scrap that this race often turns into.
- The Steeplechase event is a two-mile run around a track, which includes four hurdles and a water obstacle.
- He has already had an outing over hurdles this season and may yet continue over the smaller obstacles and return to the Flat.
- The youngest age at which a horse can run over hurdles is three, for fences it is four.
- The nine-year-old, a previous winner over this course and distance, ran a nice race in sixth on his seasonal comeback at Wetherby three weeks ago in a hurdle race.
- She tore cartilage in her knee on August 6 as she did a routine jump over the hurdle during warm-up for her last pre-Olympic race in Zurich.
1. 1.1hurdles A hurdle race.
  跨栏赛跑
  the 100 m hurdles
  100米跨栏赛跑。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The British pair will get their heptathlon challenge underway in the 100m hurdles, the high jump, the shot and the 200m on Friday.
  Children who would like to participate in sprints, hurdles and relay races please attend.
  Despite the heat, it was over 100 degrees in the stadium, he won the bronze medal in the 300 metres hurdles in the 65-69 years age group.
  Her weekend began in the best possible way with personal bests in her two weakest events, the 80m hurdles and the high jump.
  He won the English schools 200 yards hurdles and even raced for England.
  If Holmes recovers she could also land a medal in the 1500m, while Trafford's Chris Rawlinson is among the fancied runners for the 400m hurdles on Thursday.
  Stephen won the Under 14 60m sprint, 60m hurdles, high jump and under 15 relay.
  She opened the proceedings with a tidy 100 metres hurdles, then set the stadium in flames with her performance in the high jump.
  His main events are high jump, long jump, hurdles and multi events.
  He will be involved in a gruelling schedule of 60 metres hurdles, high jump, long jump, shot and 1,000 metres.
  At sixteen she continued her excellence by winning first place in the high jump, the hurdles and the 800-meter race.
2A problem or difficulty that must be overcome.
many would like to emigrate to the United States, but face formidable hurdles
Example sentencesExamples
- Arguably, he has overcome the first hurdle with excellence.
- This aside, the list of hurdles he must overcome is still formidable.
- It was told with such passion and energy that it was difficult imagining a hurdle they could not overcome together.
- There are a number of difficult hurdles to overcome.
- At nearly every step, the team must overcome complex technical hurdles, most of which have never before been faced.
- Yet before that can happen, a host of hurdles must be overcome.
- Yet could the company's plans still falter and what hurdles must be overcome?
- When you can't show how, when, where it all occurred, you have a major hurdle to overcome.
- The knee injury that kept her away from the courts for more than eight months was a huge hurdle to overcome.
- Even after clearing the practical hurdles to implementing congestion pricing, other obstacles hamper its acceptance.
- I'm trying to be patient, but my confidence is low and that is a hard hurdle to overcome.
- A policy decided in Brussels faces several hurdles before it can be successfully executed on the ground.
- As with anything innovative and new, there are hurdles that must be overcome.
- The same hurdles have been found in many individual countries.
- One hurdle to overcome would regard who actually owned the ground.
- Executives say holdups due to regulatory hurdles could hurt their stock prices.
- A York couple who overcame the hurdle of cancer are now tackling another challenge in aid of a cerebral palsy charity.
- The first hurdle to be overcome was to avoid major civilian casualties.
- In attempting to recruit candidates abroad, we have had difficulties overcoming the immigration hurdles involved in bringing foreign nationals to work in Ireland.
- Many believe nuclear-powered spacecraft can and should be built, but first many technical problems and other hurdles must be overcome.
Synonyms
obstacle, difficulty, problem, barrier, bar, snag, stumbling block, impediment, obstruction, complication, handicap, hindrance
informal hiccup, headache, fly in the ointment
British informal spanner in the works
North American informal monkey wrench in the works
3British A portable rectangular frame strengthened with withies or wooden bars, used as a temporary fence.
（用柳枝条或木条加固的）临时围栏
Synonyms
fence, jump, barrier, barricade, bar, railing, rail, wall, hedge, hedgerow
1. 3.1 A horse race over a series of hurdles.
  跳栏赛马
  a handicap hurdle
  障碍跳栏赛马。
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘He's a six year old who won on the flat at the Curragh in June and he won a handicap hurdle for me at Cheltenham last November ’, says the handler.
  Now with Sue Smith he has already improved to win a handicap hurdle at Wetherby.
  Intercounty, whose only previous win was in a handicap hurdle on this track, doubled the total in the Beginners Chase.
  The six-year-old proved that staying was his game at Wetherby in May when he won a handicap hurdle over almost three miles by a neck from the favourite Garnett.
  Four months later he brought a team of horses to the Festival and landed the new juvenile handicap hurdle with Dabiroun.
2. 3.2historical A frame on which traitors were dragged to execution.
  〈英，史〉（把背叛者送往刑场的）囚笼

verbˈhəːd(ə)lˈhərdl

1no object Take part in a hurdle race.
this gelding hurdled fluently
she took up hurdling
Example sentencesExamples
- Flat horses who do not hit the heights are often sent hurdling at four or five.
- The gelding looked a useful recruit to hurdling when making a triumphant debut at Newcastle last month.
- An able staying handicapper on the flat, the five-year-old has taken well to hurdling and has won his last two races in pleasing style.
- Fit from hurdling, the five-year-old should have a better chance than most in what looks a wide-open race.
- Clearly in excellent form, she looks an exciting recruit to hurdling and I fancy that she can continue her winning run.
- For the women it has been curling, swimming, hurdling, track cycling, floor gymnastics and tonight the finale ends with the hammer and 100m sprint.
- I got into the English schools championships in hurdling and had to choose between dance and sport, although dance is obviously much more demanding on the body.
- She runs, she chucks large, heavy balls, she sprints, she hurdles, she pole vaults, she's got a baby boy and her body still looks that good.
- A former useful handicapper on the Flat with Sir Mark Prescott, Inglis Drever has taken to hurdling like the proverbial duck to water and has won all his three races in the style of a high-class recruit.
- In his time with the Army, he was also a sportsman, taking part in hurdling, football, running and boxing.
- I hadn't sat on him before but it was clear that he has taken well to hurdling.
- His versatile gelding showed an aptitude for hurdling by winning last season.
- The cause is usually forcible contraction of the hamstrings, as in sports such as sprinting and hurdling.
- The three-year-old, who has been hurdling recently, was a winner over tomorrow's distance of two miles on the Flat in mid-summer and is not one to underestimate in a poor race.
- They say he can hurdle as well - and run a decent 200m.
- In my experience using it to school, I don't see why it shouldn't be just as suitable for chases as it is for hurdling.
- If he wins that I will send him to France for a Group Three race and, if he doesn't, he will go hurdling.
- For vaulting, they will learn hurdling and landing skills on matting blocks.
- The stamps celebrate cycling, sprinting, javelin, swimming and hurdling as well as a race involving athletes with a disability in lightning-fast wheelchairs.
- But he had unusually good, natural rhythm for hurdling and improved by leaps and bounds.
1. 1.1with object Jump over (a hurdle or other obstacle) while running.
  （跑步时）跨越栏架；跳越障碍
  all 450 runners had hurdled the barriers
  Example sentencesExamples
  If you're walking along and spot a snake, fear propels you to run with blazing speed and hurdle the fence like an Olympian.
  I can see how witnesses can get garments wrong, make assailants taller, and so on, but I really don't see how several witnesses can confuse going through the barrier with a ticket and hurdling it.
  Eyewitnesses say that he hurdled the ticket barrier and then ran down the platform to get onto the train.
  Chasing after him, Ana hurdled the hole as well, then pressed her hands against the floor to block the corridor again.
  The cheetah hurdled the gate without even breaking stride, a feat which the wolf didn't even think about emulating.
  He also gets yards after the catch, even if it means hurdling a defender as he did against Tennessee.
  Any temporary discomfort is vastly outweighed by the delight of leaping over hurdles you wouldn't even have approached before.
  He also is good at hurdling defenders who attempt to tackle him low.
  I body checked the third on my way by, driving my right shoulder and elbow into his gut as I hurdled the overturned table.
  Kyle hurdled the backyard fence with the dog under one arm, pulled Misty up, and then gracefully fell to the other side.
  He ran across the road, hurdled the dividing railing, and raced to Vishy and shook his hand.
  The prisoner leapt from the dock, jumped over the shoulders of barristers and hurdled the bar where the judge was sitting.
  The commander's intent was to hurdle obstacles, crawl beneath objects, ascend and descend obstacles, and jump from objects.
  I circled around and tried to block them by knocking over chairs and lamps in their path, but they easily hurdled the obstacles and cornered me in the living room, ready to do horrible things to me like they did the cook.
  Synonyms
  jump, jump over, leap, leap over, skip, skip over, leapfrog, leapfrog over, spring over, bound over, sail over, hurdle, clear, pole-vault
2with object Enclose or fence off with hurdles.
用临时围栏隔开（或围住）
a maze of individual hurdled pens
Example sentencesExamples
- He and his staff had been making special arrangements to handle the sale with the minimum of delay: extra straw had been got in, portions of the market have been hurdled off and permission had been given to close Paragon Street.

Phrases

fall at the first hurdle

Meet with failure at a very early stage of an undertaking.
the campaign could fall at the first hurdle if they fail to secure planning permission
Example sentencesExamples
- There were many dot.com entries, but these were not technology-based businesses and all fell at the first hurdle.
- Hosts handed tough task In Group A, reigning world champions Brazil will have to be at their devastating best to avoid falling at the first hurdle.
- It is our primary submission that this case falls at the first hurdle.
- So you fall at the first hurdle, you have no musical credibility.
- By uttering the word Ascot, I had already fallen at the first hurdle.
- An attempt to bring a private prosecution over the death of a partygoer at the entertainer's home fell at the first hurdle yesterday.
- In fact, once they get to the play-offs, they always fall at the first hurdle.
- But as far as a true sampling, this show falls at the first hurdle.
- But Mr Davies, said that any such proposal from Brussels would fall at the first hurdle.
- Winston Churchill would have fallen at the first hurdle.

Origin

Old English hyrdel 'temporary fence', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch horde and German Hürde.

Rhymes

curdle, engirdle, girdle, nurdle

Definition of hurdle in US English:

hurdle

nounˈhərdlˈhərdl

1An upright frame, typically one of a series, that athletes in a race must jump over.
（跨栏赛跑时用的）栏架
Example sentencesExamples
- Pittman injured herself during a warm-up before her Zurich race, landing awkwardly after clearing a hurdle.
- She tore cartilage in her knee on August 6 as she did a routine jump over the hurdle during warm-up for her last pre-Olympic race in Zurich.
- She jumped a series of hurdles for what seemed like the thousandth time, and then looked up at the wall in front of her.
- The hoarding, the structure on which an ad is placed, is related to the hurdle over which athletes jump.
- There were hurdles and obstacles all about the course.
- You can't question his form, but he is not the most fluent jumper of hurdles and might not be suited by the tough scrap that this race often turns into.
- A chase involves larger, rigid fences while a hurdle race is run over shorter, more flexible obstacles.
- Leaping over a pile of pale, loose terracotta bricks that stood in their way like a race hurdle, the two skidded to a sudden halt when Ronnie stopped at the edge of her own private dock.
- The Steeplechase event is a two-mile run around a track, which includes four hurdles and a water obstacle.
- The nine-year-old, a previous winner over this course and distance, ran a nice race in sixth on his seasonal comeback at Wetherby three weeks ago in a hurdle race.
- In this sport, though, the owner will run alongside the dog encouraging it over the hurdles and other obstacles.
- The athletes form a line behind the cone hurdles and must run to each hurdle, stop dead in front of it, then with both feet together, jump over the hurdle, landing on the toes.
- He has already had an outing over hurdles this season and may yet continue over the smaller obstacles and return to the Flat.
- The youngest age at which a horse can run over hurdles is three, for fences it is four.
1. 1.1hurdles A hurdle race.
  跨栏赛跑
  the women's 100-meter hurdles
  Example sentencesExamples
  The British pair will get their heptathlon challenge underway in the 100m hurdles, the high jump, the shot and the 200m on Friday.
  Children who would like to participate in sprints, hurdles and relay races please attend.
  Stephen won the Under 14 60m sprint, 60m hurdles, high jump and under 15 relay.
  She opened the proceedings with a tidy 100 metres hurdles, then set the stadium in flames with her performance in the high jump.
  He won the English schools 200 yards hurdles and even raced for England.
  His main events are high jump, long jump, hurdles and multi events.
  Her weekend began in the best possible way with personal bests in her two weakest events, the 80m hurdles and the high jump.
  Despite the heat, it was over 100 degrees in the stadium, he won the bronze medal in the 300 metres hurdles in the 65-69 years age group.
  He will be involved in a gruelling schedule of 60 metres hurdles, high jump, long jump, shot and 1,000 metres.
  If Holmes recovers she could also land a medal in the 1500m, while Trafford's Chris Rawlinson is among the fancied runners for the 400m hurdles on Thursday.
  At sixteen she continued her excellence by winning first place in the high jump, the hurdles and the 800-meter race.
2An obstacle or difficulty.
障碍，难关
there are many hurdles to overcome
有许多难关要克服。
Example sentencesExamples
- Even after clearing the practical hurdles to implementing congestion pricing, other obstacles hamper its acceptance.
- When you can't show how, when, where it all occurred, you have a major hurdle to overcome.
- At nearly every step, the team must overcome complex technical hurdles, most of which have never before been faced.
- The knee injury that kept her away from the courts for more than eight months was a huge hurdle to overcome.
- There are a number of difficult hurdles to overcome.
- Yet before that can happen, a host of hurdles must be overcome.
- Arguably, he has overcome the first hurdle with excellence.
- Yet could the company's plans still falter and what hurdles must be overcome?
- A policy decided in Brussels faces several hurdles before it can be successfully executed on the ground.
- It was told with such passion and energy that it was difficult imagining a hurdle they could not overcome together.
- The first hurdle to be overcome was to avoid major civilian casualties.
- This aside, the list of hurdles he must overcome is still formidable.
- Many believe nuclear-powered spacecraft can and should be built, but first many technical problems and other hurdles must be overcome.
- A York couple who overcame the hurdle of cancer are now tackling another challenge in aid of a cerebral palsy charity.
- One hurdle to overcome would regard who actually owned the ground.
- Executives say holdups due to regulatory hurdles could hurt their stock prices.
- The same hurdles have been found in many individual countries.
- In attempting to recruit candidates abroad, we have had difficulties overcoming the immigration hurdles involved in bringing foreign nationals to work in Ireland.
- As with anything innovative and new, there are hurdles that must be overcome.
- I'm trying to be patient, but my confidence is low and that is a hard hurdle to overcome.
Synonyms
obstacle, difficulty, problem, barrier, bar, snag, stumbling block, impediment, obstruction, complication, handicap, hindrance
3British A portable rectangular frame strengthened with willow branches or wooden bars, used as a temporary fence.
（用柳枝条或木条加固的）临时围栏
Synonyms
fence, jump, barrier, barricade, bar, railing, rail, wall, hedge, hedgerow
1. 3.1 A horse race over a series of portable rectangular frames.
  跳栏赛马
  a handicap hurdle
  障碍跳栏赛马。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Four months later he brought a team of horses to the Festival and landed the new juvenile handicap hurdle with Dabiroun.
  ‘He's a six year old who won on the flat at the Curragh in June and he won a handicap hurdle for me at Cheltenham last November ’, says the handler.
  Now with Sue Smith he has already improved to win a handicap hurdle at Wetherby.
  The six-year-old proved that staying was his game at Wetherby in May when he won a handicap hurdle over almost three miles by a neck from the favourite Garnett.
  Intercounty, whose only previous win was in a handicap hurdle on this track, doubled the total in the Beginners Chase.
2. 3.2historical A frame on which traitors were dragged to execution.
  〈英，史〉（把背叛者送往刑场的）囚笼

verbˈhərdlˈhərdl

1often as noun hurdlingno object Take part in a race that involves jumping hurdles.
参加跨栏赛
Example sentencesExamples
- For the women it has been curling, swimming, hurdling, track cycling, floor gymnastics and tonight the finale ends with the hammer and 100m sprint.
- In my experience using it to school, I don't see why it shouldn't be just as suitable for chases as it is for hurdling.
- I got into the English schools championships in hurdling and had to choose between dance and sport, although dance is obviously much more demanding on the body.
- The three-year-old, who has been hurdling recently, was a winner over tomorrow's distance of two miles on the Flat in mid-summer and is not one to underestimate in a poor race.
- They say he can hurdle as well - and run a decent 200m.
- The gelding looked a useful recruit to hurdling when making a triumphant debut at Newcastle last month.
- If he wins that I will send him to France for a Group Three race and, if he doesn't, he will go hurdling.
- Clearly in excellent form, she looks an exciting recruit to hurdling and I fancy that she can continue her winning run.
- Flat horses who do not hit the heights are often sent hurdling at four or five.
- His versatile gelding showed an aptitude for hurdling by winning last season.
- A former useful handicapper on the Flat with Sir Mark Prescott, Inglis Drever has taken to hurdling like the proverbial duck to water and has won all his three races in the style of a high-class recruit.
- She runs, she chucks large, heavy balls, she sprints, she hurdles, she pole vaults, she's got a baby boy and her body still looks that good.
- I hadn't sat on him before but it was clear that he has taken well to hurdling.
- The cause is usually forcible contraction of the hamstrings, as in sports such as sprinting and hurdling.
- An able staying handicapper on the flat, the five-year-old has taken well to hurdling and has won his last two races in pleasing style.
- For vaulting, they will learn hurdling and landing skills on matting blocks.
- Fit from hurdling, the five-year-old should have a better chance than most in what looks a wide-open race.
- In his time with the Army, he was also a sportsman, taking part in hurdling, football, running and boxing.
- But he had unusually good, natural rhythm for hurdling and improved by leaps and bounds.
- The stamps celebrate cycling, sprinting, javelin, swimming and hurdling as well as a race involving athletes with a disability in lightning-fast wheelchairs.
1. 1.1with object Jump over (a hurdle or other obstacle) while running.
  （跑步时）跨越栏架；跳越障碍
  Example sentencesExamples
  The commander's intent was to hurdle obstacles, crawl beneath objects, ascend and descend obstacles, and jump from objects.
  Eyewitnesses say that he hurdled the ticket barrier and then ran down the platform to get onto the train.
  He also gets yards after the catch, even if it means hurdling a defender as he did against Tennessee.
  Kyle hurdled the backyard fence with the dog under one arm, pulled Misty up, and then gracefully fell to the other side.
  I body checked the third on my way by, driving my right shoulder and elbow into his gut as I hurdled the overturned table.
  The cheetah hurdled the gate without even breaking stride, a feat which the wolf didn't even think about emulating.
  Chasing after him, Ana hurdled the hole as well, then pressed her hands against the floor to block the corridor again.
  The prisoner leapt from the dock, jumped over the shoulders of barristers and hurdled the bar where the judge was sitting.
  I can see how witnesses can get garments wrong, make assailants taller, and so on, but I really don't see how several witnesses can confuse going through the barrier with a ticket and hurdling it.
  If you're walking along and spot a snake, fear propels you to run with blazing speed and hurdle the fence like an Olympian.
  I circled around and tried to block them by knocking over chairs and lamps in their path, but they easily hurdled the obstacles and cornered me in the living room, ready to do horrible things to me like they did the cook.
  Any temporary discomfort is vastly outweighed by the delight of leaping over hurdles you wouldn't even have approached before.
  He also is good at hurdling defenders who attempt to tackle him low.
  He ran across the road, hurdled the dividing railing, and raced to Vishy and shook his hand.
  Synonyms
  jump, jump over, leap, leap over, skip, skip over, leapfrog, leapfrog over, spring over, bound over, sail over, hurdle, clear, pole-vault
2with object Enclose or fence off with hurdles.
用临时围栏隔开（或围住）
Example sentencesExamples
- He and his staff had been making special arrangements to handle the sale with the minimum of delay: extra straw had been got in, portions of the market have been hurdled off and permission had been given to close Paragon Street.

Phrases

fall at the first hurdle

Meet with failure at a very early stage of an undertaking.
the campaign could fall at the first hurdle if they fail to secure planning permission
Example sentencesExamples
- So you fall at the first hurdle, you have no musical credibility.
- But as far as a true sampling, this show falls at the first hurdle.
- Winston Churchill would have fallen at the first hurdle.
- But Mr Davies, said that any such proposal from Brussels would fall at the first hurdle.
- Hosts handed tough task In Group A, reigning world champions Brazil will have to be at their devastating best to avoid falling at the first hurdle.
- It is our primary submission that this case falls at the first hurdle.
- There were many dot.com entries, but these were not technology-based businesses and all fell at the first hurdle.
- An attempt to bring a private prosecution over the death of a partygoer at the entertainer's home fell at the first hurdle yesterday.
- In fact, once they get to the play-offs, they always fall at the first hurdle.
- By uttering the word Ascot, I had already fallen at the first hurdle.

Origin

Old English hyrdel ‘temporary fence’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch horde and German Hürde.

单词	hurdle
释义	Definition of hurdle in English: hurdle noun ˈhəːd(ə)lˈhərdl 1One of a series of upright frames over which athletes in a race must jump. （跨栏赛跑时用的）栏架 as modifier a hurdle race Example sentencesExamples The hoarding, the structure on which an ad is placed, is related to the hurdle over which athletes jump. Leaping over a pile of pale, loose terracotta bricks that stood in their way like a race hurdle, the two skidded to a sudden halt when Ronnie stopped at the edge of her own private dock. The athletes form a line behind the cone hurdles and must run to each hurdle, stop dead in front of it, then with both feet together, jump over the hurdle, landing on the toes. There were hurdles and obstacles all about the course. She jumped a series of hurdles for what seemed like the thousandth time, and then looked up at the wall in front of her. A chase involves larger, rigid fences while a hurdle race is run over shorter, more flexible obstacles. Pittman injured herself during a warm-up before her Zurich race, landing awkwardly after clearing a hurdle. In this sport, though, the owner will run alongside the dog encouraging it over the hurdles and other obstacles. You can't question his form, but he is not the most fluent jumper of hurdles and might not be suited by the tough scrap that this race often turns into. The Steeplechase event is a two-mile run around a track, which includes four hurdles and a water obstacle. He has already had an outing over hurdles this season and may yet continue over the smaller obstacles and return to the Flat. The youngest age at which a horse can run over hurdles is three, for fences it is four. The nine-year-old, a previous winner over this course and distance, ran a nice race in sixth on his seasonal comeback at Wetherby three weeks ago in a hurdle race. She tore cartilage in her knee on August 6 as she did a routine jump over the hurdle during warm-up for her last pre-Olympic race in Zurich. 1.1hurdles A hurdle race. 跨栏赛跑 the 100 m hurdles 100米跨栏赛跑。 Example sentencesExamples The British pair will get their heptathlon challenge underway in the 100m hurdles, the high jump, the shot and the 200m on Friday. Children who would like to participate in sprints, hurdles and relay races please attend. Despite the heat, it was over 100 degrees in the stadium, he won the bronze medal in the 300 metres hurdles in the 65-69 years age group. Her weekend began in the best possible way with personal bests in her two weakest events, the 80m hurdles and the high jump. He won the English schools 200 yards hurdles and even raced for England. If Holmes recovers she could also land a medal in the 1500m, while Trafford's Chris Rawlinson is among the fancied runners for the 400m hurdles on Thursday. Stephen won the Under 14 60m sprint, 60m hurdles, high jump and under 15 relay. She opened the proceedings with a tidy 100 metres hurdles, then set the stadium in flames with her performance in the high jump. His main events are high jump, long jump, hurdles and multi events. He will be involved in a gruelling schedule of 60 metres hurdles, high jump, long jump, shot and 1,000 metres. At sixteen she continued her excellence by winning first place in the high jump, the hurdles and the 800-meter race. 2A problem or difficulty that must be overcome. many would like to emigrate to the United States, but face formidable hurdles Example sentencesExamples Arguably, he has overcome the first hurdle with excellence. This aside, the list of hurdles he must overcome is still formidable. It was told with such passion and energy that it was difficult imagining a hurdle they could not overcome together. There are a number of difficult hurdles to overcome. At nearly every step, the team must overcome complex technical hurdles, most of which have never before been faced. Yet before that can happen, a host of hurdles must be overcome. Yet could the company's plans still falter and what hurdles must be overcome? When you can't show how, when, where it all occurred, you have a major hurdle to overcome. The knee injury that kept her away from the courts for more than eight months was a huge hurdle to overcome. Even after clearing the practical hurdles to implementing congestion pricing, other obstacles hamper its acceptance. I'm trying to be patient, but my confidence is low and that is a hard hurdle to overcome. A policy decided in Brussels faces several hurdles before it can be successfully executed on the ground. As with anything innovative and new, there are hurdles that must be overcome. The same hurdles have been found in many individual countries. One hurdle to overcome would regard who actually owned the ground. Executives say holdups due to regulatory hurdles could hurt their stock prices. A York couple who overcame the hurdle of cancer are now tackling another challenge in aid of a cerebral palsy charity. The first hurdle to be overcome was to avoid major civilian casualties. In attempting to recruit candidates abroad, we have had difficulties overcoming the immigration hurdles involved in bringing foreign nationals to work in Ireland. Many believe nuclear-powered spacecraft can and should be built, but first many technical problems and other hurdles must be overcome. Synonyms obstacle, difficulty, problem, barrier, bar, snag, stumbling block, impediment, obstruction, complication, handicap, hindrance informal hiccup, headache, fly in the ointment British informal spanner in the works North American informal monkey wrench in the works 3British A portable rectangular frame strengthened with withies or wooden bars, used as a temporary fence. （用柳枝条或木条加固的）临时围栏 Synonyms fence, jump, barrier, barricade, bar, railing, rail, wall, hedge, hedgerow 3.1 A horse race over a series of hurdles. 跳栏赛马 a handicap hurdle 障碍跳栏赛马。 Example sentencesExamples ‘He's a six year old who won on the flat at the Curragh in June and he won a handicap hurdle for me at Cheltenham last November ’, says the handler. Now with Sue Smith he has already improved to win a handicap hurdle at Wetherby. Intercounty, whose only previous win was in a handicap hurdle on this track, doubled the total in the Beginners Chase. The six-year-old proved that staying was his game at Wetherby in May when he won a handicap hurdle over almost three miles by a neck from the favourite Garnett. Four months later he brought a team of horses to the Festival and landed the new juvenile handicap hurdle with Dabiroun. 3.2historical A frame on which traitors were dragged to execution. 〈英，史〉（把背叛者送往刑场的）囚笼 verbˈhəːd(ə)lˈhərdl 1no object Take part in a hurdle race. this gelding hurdled fluently she took up hurdling Example sentencesExamples Flat horses who do not hit the heights are often sent hurdling at four or five. The gelding looked a useful recruit to hurdling when making a triumphant debut at Newcastle last month. An able staying handicapper on the flat, the five-year-old has taken well to hurdling and has won his last two races in pleasing style. Fit from hurdling, the five-year-old should have a better chance than most in what looks a wide-open race. Clearly in excellent form, she looks an exciting recruit to hurdling and I fancy that she can continue her winning run. For the women it has been curling, swimming, hurdling, track cycling, floor gymnastics and tonight the finale ends with the hammer and 100m sprint. I got into the English schools championships in hurdling and had to choose between dance and sport, although dance is obviously much more demanding on the body. She runs, she chucks large, heavy balls, she sprints, she hurdles, she pole vaults, she's got a baby boy and her body still looks that good. A former useful handicapper on the Flat with Sir Mark Prescott, Inglis Drever has taken to hurdling like the proverbial duck to water and has won all his three races in the style of a high-class recruit. In his time with the Army, he was also a sportsman, taking part in hurdling, football, running and boxing. I hadn't sat on him before but it was clear that he has taken well to hurdling. His versatile gelding showed an aptitude for hurdling by winning last season. The cause is usually forcible contraction of the hamstrings, as in sports such as sprinting and hurdling. The three-year-old, who has been hurdling recently, was a winner over tomorrow's distance of two miles on the Flat in mid-summer and is not one to underestimate in a poor race. They say he can hurdle as well - and run a decent 200m. In my experience using it to school, I don't see why it shouldn't be just as suitable for chases as it is for hurdling. If he wins that I will send him to France for a Group Three race and, if he doesn't, he will go hurdling. For vaulting, they will learn hurdling and landing skills on matting blocks. The stamps celebrate cycling, sprinting, javelin, swimming and hurdling as well as a race involving athletes with a disability in lightning-fast wheelchairs. But he had unusually good, natural rhythm for hurdling and improved by leaps and bounds. 1.1with object Jump over (a hurdle or other obstacle) while running. （跑步时）跨越栏架；跳越障碍 all 450 runners had hurdled the barriers Example sentencesExamples If you're walking along and spot a snake, fear propels you to run with blazing speed and hurdle the fence like an Olympian. I can see how witnesses can get garments wrong, make assailants taller, and so on, but I really don't see how several witnesses can confuse going through the barrier with a ticket and hurdling it. Eyewitnesses say that he hurdled the ticket barrier and then ran down the platform to get onto the train. Chasing after him, Ana hurdled the hole as well, then pressed her hands against the floor to block the corridor again. The cheetah hurdled the gate without even breaking stride, a feat which the wolf didn't even think about emulating. He also gets yards after the catch, even if it means hurdling a defender as he did against Tennessee. Any temporary discomfort is vastly outweighed by the delight of leaping over hurdles you wouldn't even have approached before. He also is good at hurdling defenders who attempt to tackle him low. I body checked the third on my way by, driving my right shoulder and elbow into his gut as I hurdled the overturned table. Kyle hurdled the backyard fence with the dog under one arm, pulled Misty up, and then gracefully fell to the other side. He ran across the road, hurdled the dividing railing, and raced to Vishy and shook his hand. The prisoner leapt from the dock, jumped over the shoulders of barristers and hurdled the bar where the judge was sitting. The commander's intent was to hurdle obstacles, crawl beneath objects, ascend and descend obstacles, and jump from objects. I circled around and tried to block them by knocking over chairs and lamps in their path, but they easily hurdled the obstacles and cornered me in the living room, ready to do horrible things to me like they did the cook. Synonyms jump, jump over, leap, leap over, skip, skip over, leapfrog, leapfrog over, spring over, bound over, sail over, hurdle, clear, pole-vault 2with object Enclose or fence off with hurdles. 用临时围栏隔开（或围住） a maze of individual hurdled pens Example sentencesExamples He and his staff had been making special arrangements to handle the sale with the minimum of delay: extra straw had been got in, portions of the market have been hurdled off and permission had been given to close Paragon Street. Phrases fall at the first hurdle Meet with failure at a very early stage of an undertaking. the campaign could fall at the first hurdle if they fail to secure planning permission Example sentencesExamples There were many dot.com entries, but these were not technology-based businesses and all fell at the first hurdle. Hosts handed tough task In Group A, reigning world champions Brazil will have to be at their devastating best to avoid falling at the first hurdle. It is our primary submission that this case falls at the first hurdle. So you fall at the first hurdle, you have no musical credibility. By uttering the word Ascot, I had already fallen at the first hurdle. An attempt to bring a private prosecution over the death of a partygoer at the entertainer's home fell at the first hurdle yesterday. In fact, once they get to the play-offs, they always fall at the first hurdle. But as far as a true sampling, this show falls at the first hurdle. But Mr Davies, said that any such proposal from Brussels would fall at the first hurdle. Winston Churchill would have fallen at the first hurdle. Origin Old English hyrdel 'temporary fence', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch horde and German Hürde. Rhymes curdle, engirdle, girdle, nurdle noun.1 phr. Definition of hurdle in US English: hurdle nounˈhərdlˈhərdl 1An upright frame, typically one of a series, that athletes in a race must jump over. （跨栏赛跑时用的）栏架 Example sentencesExamples Pittman injured herself during a warm-up before her Zurich race, landing awkwardly after clearing a hurdle. She tore cartilage in her knee on August 6 as she did a routine jump over the hurdle during warm-up for her last pre-Olympic race in Zurich. She jumped a series of hurdles for what seemed like the thousandth time, and then looked up at the wall in front of her. The hoarding, the structure on which an ad is placed, is related to the hurdle over which athletes jump. There were hurdles and obstacles all about the course. You can't question his form, but he is not the most fluent jumper of hurdles and might not be suited by the tough scrap that this race often turns into. A chase involves larger, rigid fences while a hurdle race is run over shorter, more flexible obstacles. Leaping over a pile of pale, loose terracotta bricks that stood in their way like a race hurdle, the two skidded to a sudden halt when Ronnie stopped at the edge of her own private dock. The Steeplechase event is a two-mile run around a track, which includes four hurdles and a water obstacle. The nine-year-old, a previous winner over this course and distance, ran a nice race in sixth on his seasonal comeback at Wetherby three weeks ago in a hurdle race. In this sport, though, the owner will run alongside the dog encouraging it over the hurdles and other obstacles. The athletes form a line behind the cone hurdles and must run to each hurdle, stop dead in front of it, then with both feet together, jump over the hurdle, landing on the toes. He has already had an outing over hurdles this season and may yet continue over the smaller obstacles and return to the Flat. The youngest age at which a horse can run over hurdles is three, for fences it is four. 1.1hurdles A hurdle race. 跨栏赛跑 the women's 100-meter hurdles Example sentencesExamples The British pair will get their heptathlon challenge underway in the 100m hurdles, the high jump, the shot and the 200m on Friday. Children who would like to participate in sprints, hurdles and relay races please attend. Stephen won the Under 14 60m sprint, 60m hurdles, high jump and under 15 relay. She opened the proceedings with a tidy 100 metres hurdles, then set the stadium in flames with her performance in the high jump. He won the English schools 200 yards hurdles and even raced for England. His main events are high jump, long jump, hurdles and multi events. Her weekend began in the best possible way with personal bests in her two weakest events, the 80m hurdles and the high jump. Despite the heat, it was over 100 degrees in the stadium, he won the bronze medal in the 300 metres hurdles in the 65-69 years age group. He will be involved in a gruelling schedule of 60 metres hurdles, high jump, long jump, shot and 1,000 metres. If Holmes recovers she could also land a medal in the 1500m, while Trafford's Chris Rawlinson is among the fancied runners for the 400m hurdles on Thursday. At sixteen she continued her excellence by winning first place in the high jump, the hurdles and the 800-meter race. 2An obstacle or difficulty. 障碍，难关 there are many hurdles to overcome 有许多难关要克服。 Example sentencesExamples Even after clearing the practical hurdles to implementing congestion pricing, other obstacles hamper its acceptance. When you can't show how, when, where it all occurred, you have a major hurdle to overcome. At nearly every step, the team must overcome complex technical hurdles, most of which have never before been faced. The knee injury that kept her away from the courts for more than eight months was a huge hurdle to overcome. There are a number of difficult hurdles to overcome. Yet before that can happen, a host of hurdles must be overcome. Arguably, he has overcome the first hurdle with excellence. Yet could the company's plans still falter and what hurdles must be overcome? A policy decided in Brussels faces several hurdles before it can be successfully executed on the ground. It was told with such passion and energy that it was difficult imagining a hurdle they could not overcome together. The first hurdle to be overcome was to avoid major civilian casualties. This aside, the list of hurdles he must overcome is still formidable. Many believe nuclear-powered spacecraft can and should be built, but first many technical problems and other hurdles must be overcome. A York couple who overcame the hurdle of cancer are now tackling another challenge in aid of a cerebral palsy charity. One hurdle to overcome would regard who actually owned the ground. Executives say holdups due to regulatory hurdles could hurt their stock prices. The same hurdles have been found in many individual countries. In attempting to recruit candidates abroad, we have had difficulties overcoming the immigration hurdles involved in bringing foreign nationals to work in Ireland. As with anything innovative and new, there are hurdles that must be overcome. I'm trying to be patient, but my confidence is low and that is a hard hurdle to overcome. Synonyms obstacle, difficulty, problem, barrier, bar, snag, stumbling block, impediment, obstruction, complication, handicap, hindrance 3British A portable rectangular frame strengthened with willow branches or wooden bars, used as a temporary fence. （用柳枝条或木条加固的）临时围栏 Synonyms fence, jump, barrier, barricade, bar, railing, rail, wall, hedge, hedgerow 3.1 A horse race over a series of portable rectangular frames. 跳栏赛马 a handicap hurdle 障碍跳栏赛马。 Example sentencesExamples Four months later he brought a team of horses to the Festival and landed the new juvenile handicap hurdle with Dabiroun. ‘He's a six year old who won on the flat at the Curragh in June and he won a handicap hurdle for me at Cheltenham last November ’, says the handler. Now with Sue Smith he has already improved to win a handicap hurdle at Wetherby. The six-year-old proved that staying was his game at Wetherby in May when he won a handicap hurdle over almost three miles by a neck from the favourite Garnett. Intercounty, whose only previous win was in a handicap hurdle on this track, doubled the total in the Beginners Chase. 3.2historical A frame on which traitors were dragged to execution. 〈英，史〉（把背叛者送往刑场的）囚笼 verbˈhərdlˈhərdl 1often as noun hurdlingno object Take part in a race that involves jumping hurdles. 参加跨栏赛 Example sentencesExamples For the women it has been curling, swimming, hurdling, track cycling, floor gymnastics and tonight the finale ends with the hammer and 100m sprint. In my experience using it to school, I don't see why it shouldn't be just as suitable for chases as it is for hurdling. I got into the English schools championships in hurdling and had to choose between dance and sport, although dance is obviously much more demanding on the body. The three-year-old, who has been hurdling recently, was a winner over tomorrow's distance of two miles on the Flat in mid-summer and is not one to underestimate in a poor race. They say he can hurdle as well - and run a decent 200m. The gelding looked a useful recruit to hurdling when making a triumphant debut at Newcastle last month. If he wins that I will send him to France for a Group Three race and, if he doesn't, he will go hurdling. Clearly in excellent form, she looks an exciting recruit to hurdling and I fancy that she can continue her winning run. Flat horses who do not hit the heights are often sent hurdling at four or five. His versatile gelding showed an aptitude for hurdling by winning last season. A former useful handicapper on the Flat with Sir Mark Prescott, Inglis Drever has taken to hurdling like the proverbial duck to water and has won all his three races in the style of a high-class recruit. She runs, she chucks large, heavy balls, she sprints, she hurdles, she pole vaults, she's got a baby boy and her body still looks that good. I hadn't sat on him before but it was clear that he has taken well to hurdling. The cause is usually forcible contraction of the hamstrings, as in sports such as sprinting and hurdling. An able staying handicapper on the flat, the five-year-old has taken well to hurdling and has won his last two races in pleasing style. For vaulting, they will learn hurdling and landing skills on matting blocks. Fit from hurdling, the five-year-old should have a better chance than most in what looks a wide-open race. In his time with the Army, he was also a sportsman, taking part in hurdling, football, running and boxing. But he had unusually good, natural rhythm for hurdling and improved by leaps and bounds. The stamps celebrate cycling, sprinting, javelin, swimming and hurdling as well as a race involving athletes with a disability in lightning-fast wheelchairs. 1.1with object Jump over (a hurdle or other obstacle) while running. （跑步时）跨越栏架；跳越障碍 Example sentencesExamples The commander's intent was to hurdle obstacles, crawl beneath objects, ascend and descend obstacles, and jump from objects. Eyewitnesses say that he hurdled the ticket barrier and then ran down the platform to get onto the train. He also gets yards after the catch, even if it means hurdling a defender as he did against Tennessee. Kyle hurdled the backyard fence with the dog under one arm, pulled Misty up, and then gracefully fell to the other side. I body checked the third on my way by, driving my right shoulder and elbow into his gut as I hurdled the overturned table. The cheetah hurdled the gate without even breaking stride, a feat which the wolf didn't even think about emulating. Chasing after him, Ana hurdled the hole as well, then pressed her hands against the floor to block the corridor again. The prisoner leapt from the dock, jumped over the shoulders of barristers and hurdled the bar where the judge was sitting. I can see how witnesses can get garments wrong, make assailants taller, and so on, but I really don't see how several witnesses can confuse going through the barrier with a ticket and hurdling it. If you're walking along and spot a snake, fear propels you to run with blazing speed and hurdle the fence like an Olympian. I circled around and tried to block them by knocking over chairs and lamps in their path, but they easily hurdled the obstacles and cornered me in the living room, ready to do horrible things to me like they did the cook. Any temporary discomfort is vastly outweighed by the delight of leaping over hurdles you wouldn't even have approached before. He also is good at hurdling defenders who attempt to tackle him low. He ran across the road, hurdled the dividing railing, and raced to Vishy and shook his hand. Synonyms jump, jump over, leap, leap over, skip, skip over, leapfrog, leapfrog over, spring over, bound over, sail over, hurdle, clear, pole-vault 2with object Enclose or fence off with hurdles. 用临时围栏隔开（或围住） Example sentencesExamples He and his staff had been making special arrangements to handle the sale with the minimum of delay: extra straw had been got in, portions of the market have been hurdled off and permission had been given to close Paragon Street. Phrases fall at the first hurdle Meet with failure at a very early stage of an undertaking. the campaign could fall at the first hurdle if they fail to secure planning permission Example sentencesExamples So you fall at the first hurdle, you have no musical credibility. But as far as a true sampling, this show falls at the first hurdle. Winston Churchill would have fallen at the first hurdle. But Mr Davies, said that any such proposal from Brussels would fall at the first hurdle. Hosts handed tough task In Group A, reigning world champions Brazil will have to be at their devastating best to avoid falling at the first hurdle. It is our primary submission that this case falls at the first hurdle. There were many dot.com entries, but these were not technology-based businesses and all fell at the first hurdle. An attempt to bring a private prosecution over the death of a partygoer at the entertainer's home fell at the first hurdle yesterday. In fact, once they get to the play-offs, they always fall at the first hurdle. By uttering the word Ascot, I had already fallen at the first hurdle. Origin Old English hyrdel ‘temporary fence’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch horde and German Hürde. noun.1 phr.
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