across

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across: 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.
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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.

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。

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。

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”。

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。

5. Representatives from across the horse industry will attend the meeting.: 整個賽馬業的代表都將參加這次會議。