Reaction
[rɪ'ækʃ(ə)n] or [rɪ'ækʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like; 'his style of painting was a reaction against cubism'.
(noun.) a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent; 'a bad reaction to the medicine'; 'his responses have slowed with age'.
(noun.) an idea evoked by some experience; 'his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do'.
(noun.) extreme conservatism in political or social matters; 'the forces of reaction carried the election'.
(noun.) a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude; 'he was pleased by the audience's reaction to his performance'; 'John feared his mother's reaction when she saw the broken lamp'.
(noun.) (mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body; 'every action has an equal and opposite reaction'.
整理:莎丽--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.
(n.) The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame.
(n.) An action induced by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock.
(n.) The force which a body subjected to the action of a force from another body exerts upon the latter body in the opposite direction.
(n.) Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction.
手打:罗莎琳德
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Rebound, recoil.[2]. Reciprocal action.
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例句/造句/用法:
- After which strong avowal Bella underwent reaction, and cried to any extent, with her face on the back of her chair. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- To walk involves a displacement and reaction of the resisting earth, whose thrill is felt wherever there is matter. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The action and reaction thus constantly at work, tend to give accelerating impulse to invention, and are continually enlarging its sphere of operations. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- But there later came a reaction in favor of lighter guns and quick firers. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The other is the ejection of a stream of water at the stern, or on both sides of the boat, so as to produce a forward movement by reaction. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- But when the new element requires especial attention, random reaction is the sole recourse unless abstraction is brought into play. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But she was beginning to feel the strain of the attitude; the reaction was more rapid, and she lapsed to a deeper self-disgust. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- When nitrogen gas is in contact with heated calcium carbide, a reaction takes place which results in the formation of calcium nitride, a compound suitable for enriching the soil. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- But in that intense being lay the strength of reaction. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He is never constant, always this awful, dreadful reaction. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- That reaction may not be as deplorable as it seems. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Sir Isaac Newton in 1680 proposed a steam carriage propelled by the reaction of a jet of steam. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The climax of sensual reaction, once reached in any direction, is reached finally, there is no going on. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- For you can only revolt in pure reaction from her-and to be her opposite is to be her counterpart. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- For Gerald was in reaction against Charity; and yet he was dominated by it, it assumed supremacy in the inner life, and he could not confute it. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The reactions were all varied in various people, but they followed a few great laws, and intrinsically there was no difference. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And then come the reactions. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The tremendously complex nature of the chemical reactions which take place in the lead-acid storage battery also renders it an easy prey to many troublesome diseases. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He is merely selecting the stimuli supplied by the forms of the letters and the motor reactions of oral or written reproduction. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Then it operates to call out mechanical reactions, ability to use the vocal organs to repeat statements, or the hand to write or to do sums. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Characteristic temperature reactions may take place when the object is grasped. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It is a familiar fact that the young of the higher animals, and especially the human young, have to learn to utilize their instinctive reactions. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Not the least of the applications of the dynamo is its use in electro-metallurgy for plating metals, and also for promoting chemical reactions. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- These qualitatively different reactions are called presentations (Vorstellungen). 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But these flashes of amusement were but brief reactions from the long disgust of her days. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
編輯:梅齐