Opposite
['ɒpəzɪt;-sɪt] or ['ɑpəzət]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem; 'opposite leaves' .
(adj.) altogether different in nature or quality or significance; 'the medicine's effect was opposite to that intended'; 'it is said that opposite characters make a union happiest'- Charles Reade .
(adj.) the other one of a complementary pair; 'the opposite sex'; 'the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors' .
(adj.) being directly across from each other; facing; 'And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm'- Longfellow; 'we lived on opposite sides of the street'; 'at opposite poles' .
(adj.) moving or facing away from each other; 'looking in opposite directions'; 'they went in opposite directions' .
手打:撒迪厄斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.
(a.) Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite extreme.
(a.) Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
(a.) Set over against each other, but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same node.
(a.) Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands before a petal.
(n.) One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist.
(n.) That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite.
卡洛琳手打
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Facing, over against.[2]. Contrary, repugnant, diverse, unlike, incompatible, inconsistent.[3]. Adverse, opposed, opposing, antagonistic, hostile, inimical.
安琪莉可錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Facing, adverse, repugnant, inconsistent, irreconcilable, contrary,antagonistic, counter, contradictory
ANT:Agreeing, coincident, consentaneous
手打:西摩
解釋/意思:
adj. placed over against: standing in front: situated on opposite sides: contrasted with: opposed to: of an entirely different nature.—n. that which is opposed or contrary: an opponent.—adv. Opp′ositely.—n. Opp′ositeness.—Be opposite with (Shak.) to be perverse and contradictory in dealing with.
克劳迪娅手打
例句/造句/用法:
- I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Then the wise and good will not desire to gain more than his like, but more than his unlike and opposite? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The swans had gone out on to the opposite bank, the reeds smelled sweet, a faint breeze touched the skin. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- At the foot of the throne these two parties separated and halted, facing each other at opposite sides of the aisle. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- She seated herself beside her uncle opposite to Will, and was evidently preoccupied with something that made her almost unmindful of him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- By the living Lord it flashed upon me, as I sat opposite to her at the table and saw her with a knife in her hand, that she had done it! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Shut into the drawing-room, the pair took seats, each in an arm-chair, placed opposite, a few yards between them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He rose, as he spoke, from the chair in which he had been sitting opposite to me up to this time. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- They took some one else out just before we came opposite. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I had hardly walked half-way towards the house when Sir Percival, who had withdrawn in the opposite direction, suddenly stopped and called me back. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- A dozen lesser therns confronted us from a large doorway at the opposite end of the storeroom from which we had entered. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Confused, Mr. Huskisson tried to go around the open door of the carriage, which projected over the opposite rail. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Anselmo found Robert Jordan sitting at the plank table inside the cave with Pablo opposite him. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- But if, instead of being the personification of reserve and discretion, she were something quite opposite, I should not fear her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I handed him my pouch, and he seated himself opposite to me and smoked for some time in silence. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- There is a kind of professional reconciler of opposites who likes to lump all the prominent rebels together and refer to them affectionately as us radicals. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There were two opposites, his will and the resistant Matter of the earth. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Yes, he said, they are opposites. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And to the class of opposites belong assent and dissent, desire and avoidance. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The opposites, once more, to thoughtful action are routine and capricious behavior. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Meg was Amy's confidant and monitor, and by some strange attraction of opposites Jo was gentle Beth's. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- All these qualities, in him usually so light and careless, she felt to be inseparable from some touch of their opposites in her own breast. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It is a tick-tack, tick-tack, a dance of opposites. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
阿伦編輯