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cross-country

/adjective kraws-kuhn-tree, kros-; noun kraws-kuhn-tree, -kuhn-, kros-/US // adjective ˈkrɔsˌkʌn tri, ˈkrɒs-; noun ˈkrɔsˈkʌn tri, -ˌkʌn-, ˈkrɒs- //

越野,越野赛,越野车,越界

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : directed or proceeding over fields, through woods, etc., rather than on a road or path: a cross-country race.
    • : from one end of the country to the other: a cross-country flight.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cross-coun·tries.

    • : a cross-country sport or race.

Examples

  • In that country at that moment, the Catholics have practically disappeared.

  • Elsewhere, courts throughout the country have placed limits on speech this year.

  • “This is a federal mandate that is causing some real problems for schools across the country,” Kline told a CBS affiliate in July.

  • Charles “Father” Coughlin, a raving anti-Semite, was one of the most popular radio hosts in the country.

  • It marked a groundbreaking moment in how the country viewed Jews, especially Jewish women.

  • The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.

  • In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.

  • In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).

  • Nothing remarkable occurred in our march through this country.

  • There are some folk in this country, you know, who manifest a very retiring disposition at times.