Opponent
[ə'pəʊnənt] or [ə'ponənt]
解释:
(a.) Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.
(n.) One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe.
(n.) One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it.
奥布里校对
同义词及近义词:
n. Antagonist, adversary, rival, competitor, enemy, foe, adverse party.
哈洛录入
同义词及反义词:
[See ADVERSARY]
校对:威拉德
解释:
adj. opposing in action speech &c.: placed in front.—n. one who opposes.
校对:索尼亚
例句:
- And before God, replied his opponent, fervently, do I receive it! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- My opponent had the advantage of birth over me (he was a citizen by adoption) and carried off the prize. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The trick here is to argue from the opponent's language, never from his insight. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- His calling is the acquisition of secrets and the holding possession of such power as they give him, with no sharer or opponent in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Never have I risen to such a height, and never have I been so hard pressed by an opponent. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- If the visitor persists until Edison has seen both sides of the controversy, he is always willing to frankly admit that his own views may be unsound and that his opponent is right. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Yes, he replied, the opponent might have something to say. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- His opponent was the son of his principal warder, and was so imprudent as to give the challenge to this barter of buffets. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The two measured each other for a moment, but Lily still saw her opponent through a blur of scorn that made all other considerations indistinct. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- It was just after Corbett had won one of his big battles as a prize-fighter, and the dismay of his opponent was excusable. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- He had returned with the prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Next, we shall ask our opponent how, in reference to any of the pursuits or arts of civic life, the nature of a woman differs from that of a man? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- In controversy we do not try to find our opponent's meaning: we examine his vocabulary. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- They were felled not by a number of fighting men, but by a single opponent. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- By the modern philosophic empiricist and by his opponent, experience has been looked upon just as a way of knowing. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- His opponents tried to badger him in every way they could, and ridicule even his modest statements. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- His Democratic opponents, especially Woodrow Wilson, are, as I write, in the midst of the Presidential campaign of 1912, trying to focus attention on the tariff. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- They will use friendly correction, but will not enslave or destroy their opponents; they will be correctors, not enemies? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The aspect of the two opponents was now singular. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Socrates praises his frankness, and assumes the attitude of one whose only wish is to understand the meaning of his opponents. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Then let us put a speech into the mouths of our opponents. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- He was thus able to ruin public opponents through private scandals. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- How often in a political campaign does a candidate suggest that behind the platforms and speeches of his opponents there might be some new and valuable understanding of the country's need? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- He was to preach the doctrines, and I was to confound all opponents. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- What damage have your opponents sustained? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He went down to the Houses of Parliament to arrest five of his most active opponents. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Here a Lancashire man named Highs, who had constructed a double jenny to work fifty-six spindles in 1770, was declared by Arkwright’s opponents to be the real inventor. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- But the Prophet himself went unscathed because he was well connected, and his opponents did not want to begin a blood feud. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- My blade was swinging with the rapidity of lightning as I sought to parry the thrusts and cuts of my opponents. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- A tendency existed at the time to assume that electricity was altogether safe, while its opponents, predicating their attacks on arc-lighting casualties, insisted it was most dangerous. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
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