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surmount

/ser-mount/US // sərˈmaʊnt //UK // (sɜːˈmaʊnt) //

跨越,战胜,克服,战胜一切

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
    • : to get over or across.
    • : to prevail over: to surmount tremendous difficulties.
    • : to be on top of or above: a statue surmounting a pillar.
    • : to furnish with something placed on top or above: to surmount a tower with a spire.
    • : Obsolete. to surpass in excellence.to exceed in amount.

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Examples

  • The good news is that every state seems to have surmounted the wave and new cases are now generally on the decline.

  • For Bullock in Gravity, all those miles above Earth, reconnecting with home means surmounting the death of a daughter.

  • As a consequence, Nina is placed in an impossible position, but one she is determined to surmount.

  • Formulaic action scenes became riotous steeplechases as Zorro surmounted obstacles with somersaults and handsprings, sometimes pausing for a snack.

  • Now he’s seeking his fourth ring, inching closer to Michael Jordan’s six — which, no matter how much he downplays it, is a hill he’s still trying to surmount.

  • And that is why, as veterans, the onus is on us to surmount it and bridge the divide.

  • His fiery enthusiasm swept aside all difficulties; his inventive genius ever showed him the way to surmount all obstacles.

  • It was the personality of their general which had taught the French soldiers to surmount all difficulties.

  • The true spirit of success is not to look at obstacles, but to keep the eye on the many ways in which to surmount them.

  • They are daunted by nothing they surmount walls and hedges, and enter enclosed gardens or inhabited houses.

  • My mind was staggered with a view of the difficulties I had to surmount and the little interest I possessed.