1. | 跑；跑步（运动）the action or sport of running |
to go running 去跑步 | |
running shoes 跑鞋 |
2. | 管理；操纵；操作the activity of managing or operating sth |
the day-to-day running of a business 企业的日常运营 | |
the running costs of a car(= for example of fuel, repairs, insurance) 养车的费用 |
3. | 走私；偷运the activity of bringing sth such as drugs, guns, etc. into a country secretly and illegally |
drug-running 毒品走私 |
1. | （置于数字和 year、day 或 time 等名词后，表示同样的事一再重复）连续used after a number and a noun such as ‘year’ ‘day’ or ‘time’, to say that sth has happened in the same way several times, without a change |
She's won the championship three years running. 她已连续三年获得冠军。 | |
It was the third day running that the train had been late. 列车已经连续三天晚点了。 | |
No party has won an election four times running. 没有一个政党在选举中连续四次获胜。 |
2. | （水）活的，流淌的，流动的running water is water that is flowing somewhere or water that is supplied to a building and available to be used through taps/faucets |
I can hear the sound of running water. 我听到流水的声音。 | |
a remote cottage without electricity or running water 没有电和自来水的偏僻村舍 |
3. | [obn] 持久的；连续不断的lasting a long time; continuous |
For years he had fought a running battle with the authorities over the land. 多年来，他为了那片土地同当局不断抗争。 | |
a running argument 持久的争论 | |
His old raincoat became a running joke(= people kept laughing at it) . 他那件旧雨衣一直被人取笑。 |
4. | …地流动的running or flowing in the way mentioned |
a fast-running river 湍急的河流 |
