Adverse
['ædvɜːs] or [ædˈvɚs,ˈædˌvɚs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) in an opposing direction; 'adverse currents'; 'a contrary wind' .
(adj.) contrary to your interests or welfare; 'adverse circumstances'; 'made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions' .
手打:朱迪--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.
(a.) Opposite.
(a.) In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.
(v. t.) To oppose; to resist.
校對:瓦珥
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Contrary, opposing, unpropitious, counteracting, conflicting, HEAD, not propitious.[2]. Hostile, inimical, antagonistic.[3]. Unprosperous, untoward, unlucky, unfortunate, calamitous, disastrous.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Opposed_to, unlucky, hard, hostile, antagonistic, unpropitious, opposite,conflicting, contrary, unfavorable
ANT:Favorable, friendly, amicable, propitious, fortunate, lucky
校對:弗恩
解釋/意思:
adj. acting in a contrary direction (with to): opposed to: unfortunate: injurious.—adv. Ad′versely.—ns. Ad′verseness Advers′ity adverse circumstances: affliction: misfortune.
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例句/造句/用法:
- There had been a split in the Cabinet; the minister for Education had resigned owing to adverse criticism. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It was his opinion that it was cheaper to quarry and concentrate lean ore in a big way than to attempt to mine, under adverse circumstances, limited bodies of high-grade ore. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The experience of civilized nations has hitherto been adverse to Socialism. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- That adverse decision at St. Louis would never have been made if the court could have seen the men who swore for Goebel. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In general I am adverse to stone structures for this purpose unless thus boarded. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Thus prepared to expect adverse circumstances, she had acquired the firmness necessary for acting under them. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- This was the spirit in which the adverse accounts of Philip were written. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A residence in Turkey was abhorrent to her; her religion and feelings were alike adverse to it. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- No race knows so well as thine own tribes how to submit to the time, and so to trim their bark as to make advantage even of an adverse wind. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- She listened eagerly to him, yet tantalized herself by giving to his words a meaning foreign to their true interpretation, and adverse to her hopes. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But adverse winds detain me on shore; like Ulysses, I sit at the water's edge and weep. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Then he had been tried by prosperity as well as adverse fortune, and had passed unhurt through the perils of both. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- But also he may sometimes be stirred by adverse circumstances to such a degree that he rises up against them and reforms them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Always alike, and theory and practice always adverse! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He looks like a person who would enjoy battling with every adverse thing he could meet with--enemies, winds, or circumstances. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
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