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词组 run
释义 run
  [ran, ran, running]
 run across
   run across sb/sth to meet someone or find something by chance:
   ▪ Lord Archer ran across his old friend as he was coming out of his club.
   ▪ I ran across an advertisement in the Times, which said they were looking for English teachers in Japan.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑come across
 run after
  1. run after sb/sth to chase someone or something:
   ▪ My father ran after the thieves, but they got away.
   ▪ She began to run after him, calling his name.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑chase, pursue formal
  2. run after sb informal to keep trying to persuade someone to have a sexual relationship with you, because you feel sexually attracted to them:
   ▪ When we were at college she was always running after some man or other.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑chase
 run along
   run along! old-fashioned spoken used to tell a child to go away:
   ▪ Run along now children! It's time you were in bed!
   ■ SIMILAR TO: off you go! spoken
 run around
   run around/round to be very busy doing a lot of different things, and rushing from one place to another
   run around/round doing sth
   ▪ I've been running around all morning trying to get everything ready for Cathy's birthday.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑rush around
 run around after
   run around/round after sb to be busy doing a lot of small jobs for someone, like a servant, especially when that person could easily do all these jobs himself or herself:
   ▪ His last wife got fed up with running around after him all the time.
   ▪ She seemed content to let Valerie run around after her and do everything for her.
 run around with
   run around with sb informal to spend a lot of time with someone and be friendly with them:
   ▪ Tony used to run around with a gang of friends from art college.
   ▪ He had forgotten the faces of most of the girls he ran around with at university.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: hang out with informal, especially AmE
 run away
  1. run away to leave somewhere by running, especially in order to escape from something or someone:
   ▪ When the police arrived, one man ran away and the other made his escape in a car.
   ▪ Higgs said he saw two youths running away from the scene just before the fire was discovered.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑run off, flee
  2. run away to leave the place where you live, your family etc, especially without telling anyone, because you are unhappy there or want a completely different kind of life:
   ▪ When she was young she had wanted to run away and join the circus.
   run away from home
   ▪ Darren was always getting in trouble at school and ran away from home five times in two years.
    runaway n C someone who has secretly run away from their home or the place where they usually live:
   ▪ Many homeless people start out as teenage runaways from broken homes.
    runaway adj only before noun having secretly run away from home or the place where you usually live:
   ▪ Jim, the runaway slave in 'Huckleberry Finn'
  3. run away to try to avoid dealing with a problem or a difficult situation
   + from
   ▪ He shouldn't keep running away from his responsibilities.
   ▪ You can't run away from these things forever. Sooner or later the past will catch up with you.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: avoid
 run away with
  1. run away with sb not passive to secretly leave your wife, husband etc, in order to go and live with someone else and have a sexual relationship with them:
   ▪ C‚line abandoned his wife and ran away to Italy with a singer.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑run off with, ↑go off with
  2. run away with sth not passive to win something easily such as a competition, game, or prize:
   ▪ Jackie Stewart was able to run away with the championship, scoring nearly twice as many points as his nearest rival, Ronnie Peterson.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑walk off with, ↑walk away with
  3. let your imagination/emotions/feelings run away with you to become very excited, upset, or worried, because you think that something may have happened, even though this seems very unlikely:
   ▪ "Maybe he's been involved in some kind of accident!" "You mustn't let your imagination run away with you. I'm sure he's OK."
  4. run away with the idea/impression informal to wrongly think that something is true, or that you should do something, because of what you know about a situation:
   ▪ I don't want people running away with the idea that this is going to be easy. It's not.
 run by
  1. run sth by sb again informal to say something again to someone, in order to make sure they have understood it:
   ▪ Sorry, I was thinking about something else. Can you run that one by me again?
  2. run sth by sb informal to tell someone about something such as a plan or idea, in order to find out their opinion about it, or to make sure that they agree with it:
   ▪ It sounds like a good idea, but we'd better run it by Michael first.
 run down
  1. run down sb • run sb down usually passive to drive into someone and hurt or kill them:
   ▪ I almost got run down by a bus as I was crossing the road.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑run over, ↑knock down
  2. run sb/sth down • run down sb/sth to criticize someone or something, especially in a way that seems unfair:
   ▪ Never run down your previous employer at an interview. It will always reflect badly on you.
   run yourself down
   ▪ As a nation we're always running ourselves down, instead of being proud of our achievements.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: criticize, ↑knock
  3. be run down to feel tired and unhealthy because you have been working too hard, not getting enough sleep, or worrying a lot about something:
   ▪ Is Sue all right? She looked rather run down when I last saw her.
   ▪ I was feeling generally run down and in need of a vacation.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: exhausted
  4. run down • run down sth • run sth down if a battery, watch etc runs down, or you run it down, it gradually loses power until there is none left:
   ▪ The toy stopped moving. Its batteries had obviously run down.
   ▪ Someone had left the lights on and run down the car's battery.
  5. run down sth • run sth down BrE to gradually reduce the amount of work that a company or other organization does, in order to prepare for closing it:
   ▪ BSEL say they will run down the shipyard unless another buyer is found.
   ▪ The local hospital was being run down and no longer took emergency cases.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑wind down
  6. run down sth • run sth down to let something such as a company, an organization, or a country's economy get into very bad condition:
   ▪ Every time a new party gets into power, they always accuse the previous government of running down the economy.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ruin
  7. run down • run down sth • run sth down if supplies of something run down, or are run down, they gradually all get used until there is none of it left:
   ▪ It is estimated that supplies of gas from the North Sea will start to run down between now and the end of the century.
  8. run down sth to quickly look at or read aloud a list of things or people:
   ▪ Do you want me to run down the list of possible candidates?
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑run through
    rundown n singular a short report or explanation in which you mention the most important information:
   ▪ She began by giving a brief rundown of the decisions that had been made at the previous meeting.
  9. run sb/sth down BrE to find someone or something that you have been looking for:
   ▪ I finally managed to run him down at his club in Mayfair.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑track down
  10. run down sth • run sth down to chase after something and succeed in stopping it:
   ▪ Shane managed to run down the ball just before it reached the boundary.
 run for
  1. run for sth to try to be elected to a particular position:
   ▪ Burns wants to run for governor at the next election.
   ▪ Observers in Oklahoma see Watts eventually running for the Senate.
   run for office (=try to be elected to an important political position)
   ▪ Hillary has made no secret of her wish to run for office.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑stand for
  2. run for it to run as quickly as you can, especially in order to escape from someone or something:
   ▪ When he saw the police coming, Riney decided to run for it.
   ▪ I think he's seen us. We'd better run for it.
 run in
  1. run sb in • run in sb old-fashioned informal if the police run someone in, they catch that person and take them to the police station:
   ▪ The Southend police ran in a young man for speeding yesterday, and discovered that he had been involved in the robbery.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: arrest
  2. run sth in • run in sth BrE if you run in a new car, you drive it slowly and carefully at first, in order to avoid damaging the engine:
   ▪ The car had a sign on the back which read 'Running in. Please pass.'
 run into
  1. run into sb not passive to meet someone you know by chance, when you did not expect to meet them:
   ▪ While I was in Paris I ran into an old school-friend who I hadn't seen in years.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑bump into, ↑run across, ↑come across
  2. run into sth if you run into problems, difficulties etc, you suddenly experience them and have to deal with them, especially when you did not expect them:
   ▪ The company had run into financial difficulties during the recession.
   ▪ Streibl recently ran into trouble over allegations that he took free trips which were paid for by a defence company.
   ▪ Plans to build another runway at Heathrow airport have run into strong opposition from local residents and environmental groups.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑meet with, encounter formal
  3. run into hundreds/thousands/millions etc to reach a total of several hundreds, thousands etc - used to talk about the total cost of something, or the total number of people killed by something:
   ▪ The cost of repairing the damage is expected to run into millions of dollars.
   ▪ A spokesperson for the Austrian government said that the death toll could run into hundreds.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑reach
  4. run into sth to accidentally drive into something such as a car or a wall:
   ▪ Someone had run into the back of the bus.
   ▪ Di and Dodi were killed when their car ran into a wall at high speed in Paris.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: drive (into)
  5. run into sth if one thing runs into another, for example another word, colour, or quality, it joins it and mixes with it, so that is difficult to notice where one ends and the other begins:
   ▪ The words seemed to run into each other, and I couldn't catch what she was saying.
   ▪ It was strange how good and bad could run into each other, could appear as interchangeable.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑merge into
 run off
  1. run off to leave somewhere by running, for example to avoid being caught:
   ▪ The robbers ran off down a nearby street.
   ▪ Her T-shirt caught fire and she ran off screaming.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: flee
  2. run off to suddenly leave someone or leave the place where you live, without telling anyone:
   ▪ His wife ran off and left him.
   ▪ The popular story is that Arthur was so heartbroken that he ran off to Africa.
  3. run off sth • run sth off to quickly print several copies of something:
   ▪ Nowadays you can run off your invitations on a laser printer for virtually nothing.
   ▪ Authors were allowed to visit the printers while their books were being run off, in order to make any alterations.
  4. run off sth • run sth off sth if something runs off a power supply, it works by using the power from it:
   ▪ It's designed to run off batteries or mains electricity.
   ▪ The stove was run off a portable generator, which was kept in the basement.
  5. run off sth • run sth off to write something quickly and easily, for example a letter, poem, or the words to a song:
   ▪ Lennon later said that he and Paul ran off the song in a taxi on the way to the recording studio.
 run off with
  1. run off with sb to secretly go away with someone and have a sexual relationship with them, especially when other people disapprove of this:
   ▪ His wife ran off with the insurance man, and left him with two kids to bring up on his own.
   ▪ Gillian was thirteen when her father ran off with one of his pupils who'd left school a year earlier.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑go off with, ↑run away with
  2. run off with sth informal to steal something and take it away:
   ▪ Her employers thought she had run off with the family silver.
   ▪ Don't worry! I'm not going to run off with it!
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑go off with informal
 run on
  1. run on sth • run sth on sth to operate using a particular kind of computer or computer system, or to make something do this:
   ▪ The software will run on any PC.
   ▪ In those days all our machines ran on OS2.
   ▪ Can you run it on Windows 98?
  2. run on to continue happening for longer than was expected:
   ▪ The meeting ran on until after 6 o'clock.
  3. run on sth • run sth on sth to use a particular kind of fuel or power supply, or make something do this:
   ▪ Every new car that is sold in the UK must be able to run on unleaded fuel.
   ▪ You can run the stove on coal or firewood.
  4. run on AmE to talk for a long time, especially when other people are not interested in what you are talking about
   + about
   ▪ My dad will run on for hours about golf if you give him the chance.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑jabber away informal, chatter (on), ↑go on informal, ↑ramble on
 run out
  1. run out if you run out of something, you have no more of it left because you have used all of it:
   ▪ "Is there any more cat food?" "No. We've run out."
   run out of sth
   ▪ He'd better hurry up. We're running out of time.
   ▪ The vehicle slowed and came to a halt. "We've run out of gas," said Vito.
   ▪ They never seemed to run out of things to say to each other.
   ▪ The guerrillas finally ran out of ammunition and withdrew.
  2. run out if something runs out, there is no more of it left:
   ▪ Their adventure lasted until the money ran out.
   ▪ My husband tries to be sympathetic, but I can tell his patience is running out.
   ▪ Brazil's luck ran out in the final and they lost to France 3-0.
  3. run out if ticket or an official document or agreement runs out, it reaches the end of the time when it is officially allowed to be used or have an effect:
   ▪ His contract with the club is due to run out in December.
   ▪ My passport won't run out for at least another year.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: expire
  4. run out of steam to no longer feel eager to do something, or no longer feel that you have enough energy to continue:
   ▪ Nazeem starts really fast, but he tends to run out of steam after he's been boxing for a few rounds.
   ▪ The Republicans' campaign to get rid of Clinton began to run out of gas.
  5. run sb out • run out sb BrE to end a player's period of play in a game of cricket, by touching or throwing the ball against the wickets ( = the sets of sticks that the players run between to get points):
   ▪ Lara was run out by the Australians, after scoring yet another century for the West Indies.
  6. run out sth • run sth out if you run out a length of rope or line, you let it unwind and go away from you:
   ▪ One of the climbers stood on the edge of the cliff face and ran out about 50 foot of rope.
 run out of
  1. run out of sth ► see ↑run out1
  2. run sb out of sth old-fashioned to force someone to leave a town or area, because they have done something wrong and you are very angry with them:
   ▪ They burnt the house down and ran him out of the district.
   run sb out of town
   ▪ Her father threatened to run him out of town if he so much as went near the girl.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑hound out
 run out on
   run out on sb to suddenly leave your wife, husband, friends etc, and cause a lot of problems for them:
   ▪ Joey's wife had run out on him 13 years earlier.
   ▪ Yehudi was not in his bed. "He's run out on us," I said to myself. "That's the last we'll ever see of him."
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑walk out on, desert
 run over
  1. run over sb/sth • run sb/sth over to drive over someone or something, especially with the result that they are injured or killed:
   ▪ Barthes was run over by a laundry van as he was crossing a busy Paris street.
   ▪ Lee was really upset when her cat got run over.
   ▪ Some idiot in a white van nearly ran me over.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑knock down, ↑mow down
  2. run over sth to quickly explain something to someone, especially a series of points or instructions:
   ▪ I'll just run over how the burglar alarm works.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑run through, ↑go through
  3. run over sth to quickly read or repeat something in order to remember it or to check that is correct:
   ▪ Sean ran over his notes one last time, then made his way to the exam hall.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑run through, ↑go through
  4. run over if a container runs over, it become too full of a liquid, and the liquid starts flowing over the side:
   ▪ The woman filled up his glass until it started to run over.
   ▪ Someone in an upstairs flat had let their bath run over, and there was water absolutely everywhere.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: overflow
  5. run over/run over time if a meeting, game, television programme etc runs over, it continues past the time when it was planned to end:
   ▪ We should be through by eight, but the session might run over.
   ▪ The show was running over time, and the director had to cut one of the scenes.
   + into
   ▪ The tunnel project ran over into the following year.
  6. run over sb if a feeling runs over you, you suddenly feel it very strongly:
   ▪ She felt a sudden shudder of fear run over her.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑run through, ↑come over
  7. your mind runs over sth/run sth over in your mind to think about something such as a series of events or possibilities etc:
   ▪ Quickly his mind ran over all the awful possibilities. Maybe they'd had some kind of accident, or even been killed.
   ▪ Give yourself a few minutes to run it over in your mind, then tell me what you think.
   ▪ She let her mind run over the events of the previous day.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑run through
 run round
   ► see ↑run around
 run round after
   ► see ↑run around after
 run through
  1. run through sth if an idea, quality, feeling etc runs through something, it is present in all of it:
   ▪ This sense of sadness and loss runs through so many of Housman's poems.
   ▪ Racism runs right through our society from top to bottom.
   ▪ The main argument running through the article is that genetic research poses a threat to the future of mankind.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: pervade formal
  2. run through sb if a feeling runs through you, you suddenly feel it very strongly:
   ▪ A shudder ran through her at the thought of meeting Luke Calder again.
   ▪ He felt a thrill of excitement run through him at the mention of her name.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑run over, ↑come over
  3. run through sb's mind/head if something runs through your mind, you think about it or imagine it:
   ▪ The thought ran through my mind that the other man was probably as frightened as I was.
   ▪ Running through her mind, like a tape she couldn't switch off, was the newspaper story that Sebastian had been seen with another woman.
  4. run through sth to think about or imagine something from beginning to end, especially a series of events, reasons, or instructions:
   ▪ As he waited outside, he ran through the reasons why he thought he should get the job.
   ▪ Helen ran through the scene in her mind again and again; maybe she had over-reacted.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑go over
  5. run through sth to quickly read or look at something, especially in order to check or find something:
   ▪ Hartwig ran through the names in the notebook to see if there were any that he recognized.
   ▪ Can we run through the videotape again? I just want to make sure we haven't missed anything.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑go through
  6. run through sth to quickly talk about or explain something from beginning to end, especially a series of events, reasons, or instructions:
   ▪ Can you run through your movements on the night of the murder?
   ▪ The woman quickly ran through the instructions with me. They seemed simple enough.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑go over
    run-through n C when someone quickly talks about or explains something:
   ▪ The instructor gave me a quick run-through of the layout of the course.
  7. run through sth to quickly do a series of things, especially in order to practise them:
   ▪ I think we'll start by running through the opening dance routine.
   ▪ There are a few more scenes from the play I'd like to run through before we take a break.
    run-through n C when you quickly do a series of things, especially in order to practise them:
   ▪ They did a complete run-through of the whole opera, and it went off perfectly.
  8. run sth through sth if you run something through a computer, you ask the computer to check it, change it, do calculations with it etc, in order to provide you with the result you want:
   ▪ The police run this information through a special computer, which has information on hundreds of thousands of criminals and suspected criminals.
  9. run sb through BrE to push a sharp weapon through someone's body
   + with
   ▪ Aung San rushed forward and ran him through with a bayonet.
   ▪ When she first picked up the knife, I thought she was going to run me through with it.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: stab
  10. run through to spend all of a large amount of money quickly and waste it:
   ▪ The previous Earl had run through most of the family fortune at the casino in Monte Carlo.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: squander
 run to
  1. run to sth to reach a particular number or amount, especially a large number or amount:
   ▪ The Macpherson report runs to several hundred pages, and I haven't had time to read it all.
   ▪ Dinner for two should run to around $50.
   ▪ The cost of building and launching each shuttle can run to as much as $100 million.
  2. can/will run to sth BrE to have enough money to be able to pay for something:
   ▪ We couldn't quite run to vintage champagne, so we chose a decent bottle of wine instead.
   ▪ Bill, the budget for the course will run to some new paintbrushes as well, won't it?
  3. run to sb to go to someone and expect them to help or protect you, or tell you what you should do:
   ▪ Natalie had run to her new lover, only to be turned away broken-hearted.
   come running to sb (=expect someone to help and protect you when you should be able to deal with a problem yourself)
   ▪ Whenever there's the slightest problem he always comes running to me for help.
  4. sb's taste runs to sth if someone's taste runs to something, it is one of the things that they like:
   ▪ I'm not sure if Edgar's taste in music would run to acid jazz.
 run up
  1. run up to suddenly run to where someone or something is and stop next to them:
   ▪ A man with a gun ran up and shot him dead.
   + to
   ▪ Anne ran up to Mrs Lynde. "I hate you!" she shouted.
  2. run up debts/losses/a bill/a deficit etc to borrow or lose a lot of money, or have to pay a big bill for something:
   ▪ The Rome Opera company has run up debts of over $40 million.
   ▪ While she was at college she ran up a huge phone bill.
   ▪ In September Daiwa Bank announced that a New York bond trader had run up $1.1 billion in losses.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: accumulate formal
  3. run up your credit card to spend a lot of money using your credit card:
   ▪ He had no money of his own, he just ran up his wife's credit card until the bank stopped the card.
  4. run up sth especially AmE to succeed in achieving something - use this to say how successful or unsuccessful someone has been:
   ▪ The Sonics ran up 64 victories this year.
  5. run up sth • run sth up if you run up a flag, you raise it on a pole, usually by pulling a rope:
   ▪ The school had run up the South African flag in honour of Mandela's visit.
  6. run up sth • run sth up BrE to quickly make something, especially a piece of clothing using a sewing machine:
   ▪ If I give her the material, she can easily run up the dress for me at home.
 run up against
   run up against sth/sb to have to deal with unexpected problems or difficulties, a difficult opponent, or someone who stops you from being able to do what you want:
   ▪ The developers have run up against strong opposition from the local community.
   ▪ Have the Rockets finally run up against a team they can't beat?
   ▪ He plays a truly malicious killer, who runs up against a small-town sheriff.
   ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑run into, ↑come up against
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