每日一词71/12.24/uphill

1. 释义:something that is very difficult to do and needs a lot of effort and determination

2. 理解:uphill可作副词和形容词,作形容词本意是“上坡的”,引申为“艰难的、费力的”。当我们说一项任务非常艰难的时候,除了使用difficult, hard, tough, demanding以外,还可用uphill 来替换,这样表达更贴切、形象。

uphill经常修饰struggle, task, battle, climb, fight等词。往往是两个竞争对手实力或体能等差距悬殊的情况下。

uphill的反义词downhill,当我们想表达某件事情易如反掌时,就可以用它,一般的习惯表达是:be all downhill (from here)/be downhill all the way (from here)。

3. 应用:

1)翻译:要在两个月以内将雅思从6分提到8分对任何人来说都是一件非常难的事。

To improve IELTS from Band 6 to Band 8 within two months is an uphill struggle to anyone.

2) 造句:

To bring up a newborn infant is an uphill climb to anyone at his fifties.(抚养一个新生儿对任何一个五十多岁的人来说都是艰难的事。)

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