1. 认识这个词（基础篇）
词：hurdle
英英释义：a problem or difficulty that you must deal with before you can achieve something
例句：Life is all about jumping over one hurdle after another.
2. 体会这个词 （进阶篇）
“hurdle”是可数名词，本意是“栏架”，常被引申为“障碍”，常见、好用、形象。当我们想表达“克服XX障碍”“解决XX问题”时，除了使用 problem、difficulty、obstacle 外，还可以使用 hurdle。
我们经常会说，生活就是解决一个又一个问题，不断往前走的过程，就可以这么说：
Life is all about jumping over one hurdle after another and keeping moving on.（注意 and 连接的 jumping 和 keeping 的一致性。）
hurdle 前面经常搭配的动词除了上面的 jump over，还有 clear、overcome等。比如创业会面临一系列的挑战，例如融资、招人、持续增长等。我们就可以这么说：
To run a start-up, one needs to clear a series of hurdles, and securing enough funding is simply one of them.
通常还可以在 hurdle 前面加上一个形容词，来说明是哪方面的障碍。上面的句子也可以改写成：
Every entrepreneur has to clear the financial hurdle to get their project started.（hurdle 前面用 financial 修饰，说明是资金方面的障碍。）
再比如，我们想说“滴滴在刚开始的时候需要搞定政府监管”，“政府监管”就可以说成是“regulatory hurdle”：
When Didi, a Chinese cab-hailing app, first started, it had to overcome the regulatory hurdle.
3. 从认识到会用（作业）
1）使用《牛津英语搭配词典》查“hurdle”，了解它作为名词时的常用搭配。
a. [搭配]ADJ.
big, difficult 大障碍；难关
main, major 主要障碍
final, first, last, next 最后的障碍；第一关；最后一关；下一关:
The first big hurdle in putting your car on the road is getting insurance. 让车子上路的第一关就是购买保险。
b. [搭配]VERB + HURDLE
face 面临障碍:This is perhaps the most difficult hurdle that we face. 这也许是我们遇到的最棘手的难题。
clear, jump, overcome, pass 清除障碍；跨越障碍；渡过难关:
We’ll jump each hurdle as we come to it. 我们会跨越我们遇到的每一道难关。You have already overcome the first major hurdle by passing the entrance exam. 通过入学考试你就已经越过了第一大难关。
fall at 失败:
The plan fell at the first hurdle. 这项计划在第一关就败下阵来了。
2）翻译下面的句子：
中国学生申请赴美留学面临的一大障碍是托福考试。
（参考翻译：A big hurdle that Chinese students who wish to study in the US face is TOEFL. 或 To get admitted to US colleges, Chinese students have to clear a difficult hurdle: TOEFL, an English language proficiency test.）
3）结合自己的生活、学习、工作、兴趣等，想象在什么语境下会用到这个表达。先简要描述这个场景，再造句。
场景1 ：第一个要克服的困难就是早起。
造句：The first hurdle to be overcome is to get up early.
场景2：我们已经克服了主要困难。不能在最后一关上放弃。
造句：We have already jumped the main hurdles. We should not give it up at the last one.
场景3：在公司上市前，我们还要克服一些困难。
造句：There are still a few hurdles to be surmounted before our company goes public.
造句：When you can't show how, when, where it all occurred, you have a major hurdle to overcome.
I'm trying to be patient, but my confidence is low and that is a hard hurdle to overcome.
