| 词组 | cross over |
| 释义 | cross over 1. cross over • cross over sth to go to the other side of something or a place: ▪ Each year thousands of illegal immigrants cross over the border. ▪ We crossed over the bridge and followed the wet and muddy path along the bank. ▪ Braddock's plan was to cross over the rugged Appalachian mountains, and attack the French at Fort Duquesne. + to ▪ Wade stood up and crossed over to the living room window. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑cross 2. cross over • cross over sth BrE to walk from one side of a road to the other: ▪ Make sure you look both ways before you cross over. ▪ We crossed over the road to look at the shops on the other side. ■ SIMILAR TO: walk across, ↑cross 3. cross over to start supporting a person or group that you opposed before: ▪ The Republicans are putting forward a moderate candidate, in the hope that this will encourage disaffected Democrats to cross over. + to ▪ Churchill used to be a Liberal at one time, before he crossed over to the Conservative Party. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑come over, defect formal 4. cross over if an entertainer crosses over from one area of entertainment to another, they become successful in the second one as well as the first + into ▪ David Duchovny is one of many television stars who are trying to cross over into the movies. cross-over adj always before noun a cross-over musician or singer is one who plays a mixture of two different styles of music: ▪ Cross-over jazz/blues artist Maria Muldaur will headline this year's festival. 5. cross over to change from being popular with just one particular group in society, to being popular with people from all groups in society +to/into ▪ Stevie Wonder and James Brown were among the first black acts to cross over to white audiences in the 1970s. 6. cross over if a disease that affects a particular type of animal crosses over, it starts to affect another type of animal as well + to/from ▪ HIV had begun in African monkeys and crossed over to humans. ▪ In the late 1980s, scientists discovered that the BSE virus could cross over from cattle to humans. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑pass |
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