across: [13] English originally borrowed across, or the idea for it, from Old French. French had the phrase à croix or en croix, literally ‘at or in cross’, that is, ‘in the form of a cross’ or ‘transversely’. This was borrowed into Middle English as a creoix or o(n) croice, and it was not until the 15th century that versions based on the native English form of the word cross began to appear: in cross, on cross, and the eventual winner, across. => cross
across (adv.)
early 14c., acros, earlier a-croiz (c. 1300), from Anglo-French an cros "in a crossed position," literally "on cross" (see cross (n.)). Prepositional meaning "from one side to another" is first recorded 1590s; meaning "on the other side (as a result of crossing)" is from 1750. Phrase across the board originally is from horse-racing, in reference to a bet of the same amount of money on a horse to win, place, or show.
雙語例句
1. They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
他們偶然來到一個居住著一位狡詐的淘金者的廢墟之城。
來自柯林斯例句
2. She knelt and brushed her lips softly across Michael's cheek.
她跪了下來，輕吻邁克爾的臉頰。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Lucy had strung a banner across the wall saying "Welcome Home Daddy".
露西在墻上掛了一條橫幅，上面寫著“歡迎爸爸回家”。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Nuclear weapons plants across the country are heavily contaminated with toxic wastes.
全國的核武器工廠均受到了有毒廢棄物的嚴重污染。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Representatives from across the horse industry will attend the meeting.