【across音标】 英[əˈkrɒs] 美[əˈkrɔ:s]
【单词释义】 across是什么意思：
prep.穿过；横穿，横过；与…交叉；在…对面
adv.横过，越过；在对面；交叉；斜对面
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【across形近词/近似词】
engross vt.(使)全神贯注；独占……注意力或时间
dross n.[U]渣滓；糟粕；浮渣；碎屑
gross n.毛收入，总收入 vt.总共收入 adv.总共，全部 adj.总的，毛的；粗俗的
【常用短语】
come across 偶遇；无意中发现
cut across 抄近路通过；径直穿过
get across （使）被理解；把…讲清楚
【单词例句】
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Apollo was me sun-god.He wore a purple robe,He usually sat in his bright eastern palace early in the morning and made ready to start his daily journey across the sky.
阿波罗是太阳神。清晨他身着紫色袍，坐在那明亮的东方宫殿，准备开始每日穿越天空的旅行。
---- Apollo
◇ The king said, "How did the spirit get across the water? And where did it go after it had eaten the pear?"
“幽灵怎么越过水沟的呢？吃完梨之后上哪儿去了呢？”国王问。
---- The Girl without Hands (I)
◇ He doesn't haunt my dreams as I feared that night. Instead I am flying far across fields and woods, looking down on those below me.
那天晚上，出乎意料的是，他并没有入到我的梦中。在梦里，我飞过田野和森林，俯瞰着大地。
---- A Little Piece of Me
◇ I want a wife who will not bother me with rambling complaints about a wife's duties. But I want a wife who will listen to me when I feel the need to explain a rather difficult point I have come across in my course of studies. And I want a wife who type my papers for me when I have written them.
我想要个妻，她不得对我唠唠叨叨，抱怨不已。而我学习上遇到困难时向她述说，她可得听，我写的论文还待她来誊清。
---- I Want a Wife
◇ Though the two rims face each other across only 12 miles, it is a journey of 214 miles by car from one to the other. Nor can you visit the North Rim except in summer; some 1,200 feet higher than the South Rim, it is snow covered much of the year except in July and August.
尽管南北两缘面对面相隔只有12英里，可是坐车从一边到另一边的距离却是214英里。北缘只能在夏天参观；它比南缘高出1 200英尺左右；除了7、8月外，其它大部分时间都为冰雪覆盖。
---- The Grand Canyon
◇ The problems faced in designing platforms and communication systems that will be accepted across the world can appear insuperable.
面向世界范围内接受的设计平台和交流体系，这个问题是不可克服的。
◇ Last year, large pub chain Wetherspoons announced that it would replace plastic straws with paper alternatives across 900 outlets. After the announcement, many smaller chains and pubs across the country followed suit.
去年，大型连锁酒吧Wetherspoons宣布，将在900家分店中把塑料吸管替换为纸吸管。在这之后，英国许多中小型连锁店和酒吧纷纷效仿。
---- Is time up for this plastic relic
◇ Reducing cancer risk is not the only reason to exercise. There are compound benefits across emotional health and preventing cardiovascular disease.
降低癌症风险并不是锻炼的唯一理由。锻炼能够提升整体的情感健康水平，预防心血管疾病。
---- Fitness earlier in life reduces cancer risk when older
◇ "People in the least-developed countries already tend to be at higher risk of climate change, so depending on how population growth unfolds across the globe, there's going to be more people in hazardous areas," Snover said.
斯诺弗说：“最不发达国家的人民已经面临着更高的气候变化风险，因此，将有越来越多的人生活在危险地区，这取决于全球人口增长的趋势。”
---- World's population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100
◇ But if you hop across the Atlantic, you'll find that people use both fall and autumn interchangeably when referring to this time of year, making it the only season in the English language with two widely accepted names.
但如果你横跨大西洋，你会发现人们交替使用fall和autumn来指代秋天，于是秋天便成了英语中唯一一个拥有两个广为接受的名字的季节。