| 词汇 | be/come up against somebody/something |
| 释义 | be/come up against somebody/somethingbe/come up against somebody/something PROBLEMto have to deal with a difficult opponent or problem 必须面对某人/某事 You see, this is what we’re up against – the suppliers just aren’t reliable. 你瞧，这就是我们必须面对的难题，供应商就是靠不住。 Examples from the Corpus be/come up against somebody/something• The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against.• And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall?• Here, Wade realized, he had come up against a few firm truths.• Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.• What you have here is a situation where custom and convention comes up against constitutional guarantees.• In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness.• A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands.• At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State. → be/come up against somebody/something at against(1) |
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