| 单词 | cross-current |
| 释义 | > as lemmascross-current (i) Also said of things in motion or involving motion, as cross-current (also figurative and attributive), cross-ice, cross-traffic, cross-train; cross-post n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > an opposing force or agent counter-cast1596 cross-current1598 contre-carre1646 antagonist1647 antipolliges1652 counter-attractiona1763 counterforce1817 antagonism1821 combatant1880 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun] > cross-current cross-current1598 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Trauérsa,..a crosse currant of waters. 1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 469 Cross-ice, loose ice, affording a dubious and difficult passage to a ship. 1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 57 I had to wait..for the cross-train to Haddington. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. x. 254 It was a happy cross-current recollection. 1899 Morley in Westm. Gaz. 18 Jan. 5/1 There have been cross-currents, and it was impossible either inside the House of Commons or elsewhere that Sir William Harcourt could speak with the authority of a united party. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 26 Jan. 2/2 Cross-current politics. 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. (1926) I. xix. 140 Several precious moments were lost as the cross-traffic went by. 1948 T. Sharp Oxf. Replanned iv. 89 Two medieval streets which have also, in the absence of any other single cross-town route, to carry the whole of the cross-traffic of a city of 100,000 inhabitants. 1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid xi. 242 In the middle of these cross-currents, when partisan feeling had reached High pressure..the envoys returned. < as lemmas |
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