词汇 | backlash |
释义 | backlash noun[ C ] uk /ˈbæk.læʃ/ us /ˈbæk.læʃ/ a strong feeling among a group of people in reaction to a change or recent events in society or politics: (社会或政治方面的)强烈反响;强烈反对 the 60s backlash against bourgeois materialism60年代对资产阶级实利主义的强烈抵制 the backlash against feminism对女权主义的强烈反对 Reacting and responding act on something adverse reaction Babinski reflex bat bat something back bite hypersensitize non-response non-responsive on your toesidiom overreact reaction reception sensitivity step step up to the plateidiom strike while the iron is hotidiom supersensitivity ticklish toe backlash | American Dictionarybacklash noun[ C ] us/ˈbækˌlæʃ/ a strong, negative reaction to something, esp. to change: The mayor foresaw no political backlash against his proposal. Examples of backlashbacklash However, the 'land to the tiller' script was still powerful enough to dissuade the parties from pushing through the change fearing a political backlash. The second development consisted of anticlerical backlash against the missions. Looking at events in individual countries, the conclusion that cost containment has prompted public backlash is considerably strengthened. But this backlash was not just a reaction to the economic hardship. When this effort went "too far," it resulted in a far-reaching backlash against activist government. They needed to push him to do so without provoking a backlash. We can think of backlash metaphorically as a bungee cord that snaps when stretched too far. This framing, in turn, has opened the door to counter-claims which marshal (selfdescribed) scientific evidence and which have contributed to a backlash against survivors. Such a development could have been perceived as a challenge to divine subjectivity and would create a strong backlash. This lack of clarity makes it a formidable task to distinguish concepts and raises doubts about the use of backlash as a conceptual tool. In dynamic terms, minorities may fear that the open countermajoritarianism of supermajority rules will eventually produce a public backlash. In fact, we are not sure where backlash begins and ends and what the unique characteristics of backlash are. And that backlash still has value for us. High accuracy is most often achieved solely by designing the robot to be stiff and having little or no backlash. As the power of biotechnology has exploded over the past decade, it has evoked an enormous backlash of opposition. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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