| 词汇 | bedfellow |
| 释义 | bedfellow noun[ C ] uk /ˈbedˌfel.əʊ/ us /ˈbedˌfel.oʊ/ a person connected with another in a particular activity: 伙伴；盟友 The priest and the politician made strange/odd/unlikely bedfellows in their campaign for peace.牧师和政治家在争取和平的运动中不可思议地成为了同盟者。 Acting, being or existing together accompanying allied along alongside among distributively double act en bloc en masse epiphenomenal jointly misery misery loves companyidiom non-compatible non-conflicting tow twin two-way unison unite Examples of bedfellowbedfellow Competition over the issue of tax fairness could create strange bedfellows around the idea of reducing payroll taxes. Only we can see an issue taking shape around a selection of contributions which, at face value, might make strange bedfellows. How did the voters react to this coalition of strange bedfellows? This is an uneasy, unconvincing book in which impossible bedfellows are forced together with no chance of mating. Here, art history and music history are obvious bedfellows. Moreover, comparative analysis, which naturally tends towards ' lumping ' rather than ' splitting ', can lead to some unlikely bedfellows. Scholarly bibliographic work and postmodernist ' vigour ' make strange bedfellows. The strange bedfellows seemed friendlier once they had been seen in bed together. Just as attitudes tended to warm when strange bedfellows were seen in bed together, attitudes cooled toward parties that broke up the coalition. Coalitions of strange bedfellows force voters to revise their perceptions of political space and reevaluate their attitudes toward the actors involved. Are conservatoire degree programmes and realistic career opportunities odd bedfellows? With these factors, the anti-nuclear movement gradually became the bedfellow of the equally-nascent political opposition, thus sowing the seeds for party dependence in the next phase. This caution in the use of language suggests that ruthlessness and criticism can never be bedfellows, thus, highlighting the theme of the dialectical relationship between tyranny and criticism. If civic virtue and commerce were not easily compatible bedfellows in the eighteenth century, how much more arduous is their reconciliation in the modern context of advanced capitalism? Are ethics and managed care strange bedfellows or a marriage made in heaven? 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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