English Dictionary

hurdle

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈhɜːdəl/

名詞

イギリス英語 廃用

An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race. / A perceived obstacle.

日本語の意味

競技用の走路に設置される人工の障害物 / 比喩的に使われる障害、困難

The jockey cleared the final hurdle with a burst of speed and won the race.

騎手は勢いよく最後のハードルを越えてレースに勝った。

意味（1）

An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.

He ran in the 100 metres hurdles.

意味（2）

A perceived obstacle.

My last stop was an outdoor speech to a huge crowd of Ukrainians whom I urged to stay on the course of freedom and economic reform. Kiev was beautiful in the late spring sunshine, and I hoped its people could keep up the high spirits I had observed in the crowd. They still had many hurdles to clear.

意味（3）

A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.

The practice of folding sheep was general, and the purchase of hurdles was a regular charge in the shepherd's account.

意味（4）

(UK, obsolete) A sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.

In treason, the corporal punishment is by drawing on hurdle from the place of the prison to the place of execution, and by hanging and being cut down alive, bowelling, and quartering: and in women by burning.

hurdles （ plural ）