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Uphill means going up a slope — an uphill road climbs higher as you go. It's used a lot in a figurative way too: an 'uphill battle' or 'uphill struggle' is something very hard to achieve, where you have to push against difficulty the whole way, like walking up a steep hill.
上坡的、往上坡;(比喻) uphill battle 艱難的挑戰
組成up + hill.
同家族的字
- hilluphill just means towards the top of a hill
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Uphillname/ˈʌphɪl/
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A suburban village in Weston-super-Mare parish, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3158).
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A community in Dalton Township, Ontario, Canada.
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A surname.
uphilladv/ʌpˈhɪl/
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Up a slope, towards higher ground.
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With difficulty.
uphilladj/ˈʌphɪl/
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Located up a slope or on a hill.
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Going up a slope or a hill.
- “There’s a lot of uphill about a bicycle tour,” said he, “and the wind is against you.” “So there is downhill, and the wind behind you,” said Harris.
- The engine seemed a little sensitive to wet rails, and in consequence the uphill work was not so good north of Dundee as it had been earlier. But I have noted this same "touchiness" on the part of the "A4s", and other modern British 4-6-2s, so that in this respect No. 2006 proved no exception.
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Difficult or laborious.
- For a large part of this game, England once again looked like a team suffering from the rigours of a long season and faced an uphill task when Hofmann put Germany in front.
uphillnoun/ˈʌphɪl/
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An uphill route.
uphillverb
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hobbieslifestyleskiingTo travel uphill.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。