Opponent
[ə'pəʊnənt] or [ə'ponənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) characterized by active hostility; 'opponent (or opposing) armies' .
錄入:莉娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
奥布里校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Antagonist, adversary, rival, competitor, enemy, foe, adverse party.
哈洛錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
[See ADVERSARY]
校對:威拉德
解釋/意思:
adj. opposing in action speech &c.: placed in front.—n. one who opposes.
校對:索尼亚
例句/造句/用法:
- And before God, replied his opponent, fervently, do I receive it! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- My opponent had the advantage of birth over me (he was a citizen by adoption) and carried off the prize. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The trick here is to argue from the opponent's language, never from his insight. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Never have I risen to such a height, and never have I been so hard pressed by an opponent. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Yes, he replied, the opponent might have something to say. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- His opponent was the son of his principal warder, and was so imprudent as to give the challenge to this barter of buffets. 沃爾特·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. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It was just after Corbett had won one of his big battles as a prize-fighter, and the dismay of his opponent was excusable. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He had returned with the prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- 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? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In controversy we do not try to find our opponent's meaning: we examine his vocabulary. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- They were felled not by a number of fighting men, but by a single opponent. 愛德格·賴斯·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. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- His opponents tried to badger him in every way they could, and ridicule even his modest statements. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- They will use friendly correction, but will not enslave or destroy their opponents; they will be correctors, not enemies? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The aspect of the two opponents was now singular. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Socrates praises his frankness, and assumes the attitude of one whose only wish is to understand the meaning of his opponents. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Then let us put a speech into the mouths of our opponents. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He was thus able to ruin public opponents through private scandals. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He was to preach the doctrines, and I was to confound all opponents. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- What damage have your opponents sustained? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He went down to the Houses of Parliament to arrest five of his most active opponents. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- My blade was swinging with the rapidity of lightning as I sought to parry the thrusts and cuts of my opponents. 愛德格·賴斯·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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
編輯:普鲁登斯