Encounter
[ɪn'kaʊntə;en-] or [ɪn'kaʊntɚ]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth.
(v. i.) To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo.
(v. t.) A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview.
(v. t.) A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter.
手打:斯蒂芬
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Meeting, rencounter, clash, collision.[2]. Attack, onset, assault.[3]. Conflict, combat, fight, contest, battle, engagement, action, skirmish, brush, affair.
v. a. [1]. Meet (suddenly), meet face to face.[2]. Confront, face.[3]. Meet with, fall upon, come upon.[4]. Attack, engage with, contend against, join battle with, cope with, compete with, struggle with, strive with, fight with.
v. n. Clash, skirmish, rencounter, fight, come into collision.
海勒姆手打
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Meet, confront, face, withstand, attack, assault, combat, engagement
ANT:Elude, avoid, escape, miss, boo
錄入:斯科特
解釋/意思:
v.t. to meet face to face esp. unexpectedly: to meet in contest: to oppose.—n. a meeting unexpectedly: an interview: a fight: (Shak.) behaviour.
錄入:罗兰
例句/造句/用法:
- And how short while would these rabble villains stand to endure your encounter! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Be assured, that for my own sake, as well as your's, I will not rashly encounter danger. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- On September 20th occurred a battle, mainly an artillery encounter, at Valmy. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Both Knights broke their lances fairly, but Front-de-Boeuf, who lost a stirrup in the encounter, was adjudged to have the disadvantage. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The subsequent encounter of the two lovers and their reconciliation is a matter for ironical speculation on the part of Plutarch. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She hailed it as an earnest of the most serious determination, and was equal even to encounter her father. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- In this last encounter, General Kautz, with a part of his command, became separated, and made his way into our lines. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- She was a study of such nature as had not encountered my eyes yet: a great and new planet she was: but in what shape? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I have encountered her looks and smiles like--why, like a tutor, as I am. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But first he had encountered the company commander in the front line who had regarded the whole mission with owlishly grave suspicion. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- On another occasion he encountered a more novel peril by falling into the pile of wheat in a grain elevator and being almost smothered. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Here was a problem the like of which he had never encountered, and he felt rather than reasoned that he must meet it as a man and not as an ape. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Turning to geographical distribution, the difficulties encountered on the theory of descent with modification are serious enough. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Smith's divisions had encountered the rebel advanced pickets as early as half-past seven. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He ascends the door-steps and is gliding into the dusky hall when he encounters, on the top step, a bowing and propitiatory little man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Here, you may look in whatsoever direction you please, and your eye encounters scarcely any thing but ruin, ruin, ruin! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Several sharp encounters occurred at this point. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Perhaps there was a certain power of suggestion in these encounters. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Johnston's cavalry meanwhile had been well out towards our front, and occasional encounters occurred between it and our outposts. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- True it is that his soldiers, who, save for a few rare melodramatic encounters, saw nothing of him, idolized their Little Corporal. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He chose a new and a tough spear, lest the wood of the former might have been strained in the previous encounters he had sustained. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- His punishment had impressed him with no sense of shame, and he did not experience that feeling on encountering his chastiser. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It was terrible to think of again encountering those bearded, sneering simpletons; yet the ground must be retraced, and the steps sought out. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Soon encountering the rebel cavalry he met with a very stout resistance. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- In this frame of mind, I not only abandoned my contemplated visit to Mrs. Ablewhite--I even shrank from encountering Gabriel Betteredge himself. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I advanced, in this manner, more than half way along the stick, without encountering anything but the edges of the rocks. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- This his selected task was exchanged for the far different one of encountering the ruin caused by the convulsions of physical nature. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Have you no fear of encountering cavalry? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
整理:内莉