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English Originally Borrowed Phrase Literally Form Cross Meaning

正面 3149.across
英 [ə'krɒs]美 [ə'krɔs]

背面
释义:
prep. 穿过;横穿adv. 横过;在对面
例句:
1. They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.他们偶然来到一个居住着一位狡诈的淘金者的废墟之城。

1、as- "to" + sign- + -ment.

acrossacross: [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.=> crossacross (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."

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