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词汇 opposition
释义 opposition
noun
uk /ˌɒp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/ us /ˌɑː.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/

oppositionnoun (DISAGREEMENT)


C1[ U ]
strong disagreement: (强烈的)反对,反抗,对抗
There is a lot of opposition to the proposed changes.对所提出的变革有很多反对意见。
The unions are in opposition to the government over the issue of increasing the minimum wage.工会在提高最低工资一事上强烈反对政府。
Plans to desegregate the schools met with opposition.
She left home in the face of strong opposition from her parents.她不顾父母的强烈反对离开了家。
The company took no heed of public opposition to the plans.
The strength of the opposition was rather more than she'd bargained for.
The plan for a new office tower went ahead regardless of local opposition.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Opposing & against
active resistance
ad hominem
against someone's beliefs
alienate
alienated
converse
countervailing
declare
detractor
discordant
go against someone
intifada
kick
kick against something
lark
objector
opposed
protest
resistant
sedition

oppositionnoun (SPORT)


 the oppositionC1[ S, + sing/pl verb ]
the team or person being played against in a sports competition: (体育比赛中的)对方队;对手
The opposition has/have some good players so it should be a tough match.对方有一些不错的选手,所以要赢得这场比赛会很艰难。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Competitors & participants in sports & games
anchorman
attacker
back four
baller
ballplayer
challenger
competitor
jumper
logroller
long-jumper
longboarder
major league
mid-table
opponent
retire
torero
toxophilite
traceur
trampolinist
trialist
the Opposition
noun[ S, + sing/pl verb ]
uk /ˌɒp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/ us /ˌɑː.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
in some political systems, the elected politicians who belong to the largest party that does not form the government: 反对党
the Leader of the Opposition反对党领袖
The Opposition has/have condemned the government's proposed tax increases.反对党谴责了政府提高税率的提议。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Government ministers & civil servants
aide
am
attorney general
backbencher
cabinet
first minister
Foreign Secretary
functionary
government
Home Secretary
press secretary
private member
private secretary
Privy Councillor
procurator
Surgeon General
syndic
town clerk
undersecretary
vizier

opposition | American Dictionary


opposition
noun[ U ]
us/ˌɑp·əˈzɪʃ·ən/
disagreement with something, often by speaking or fighting against it, or (esp. in politics) the people or group who are not in power:
The proposal faces strong opposition.
They expect to defeat the opposition.

Examples of opposition


opposition
What he misses is the tension of unreconciled oppositions and the excitement of an experiment in motion.
The former is based on simple binary systems of oppositions and can be glossed as the preserve of autonomy.
Additive relations are considered contrastive when they are exceptions or oppositions, but there is no causal relationship between the segments.
I would call those oppositions between society and the material world, subject and object, history and nature, dualisms.
We may then finally be able to resolve the historical oppositions between events and structure, between agency a nd evolution, between processual and postprocessual approaches.
To sum up, the conventional understanding of market relationships can be expressed by two oppositions: market/social and self-regarding/ self-sacrificing.
In practical terms, these gendered oppositions contributed substantially to the shape of repression in the postwar period.
In most of these cases, what one actually finds are typical local oppositions, loyal to statewide powerholders and organised along familiar clientelistic and personalistic lines.
What interactional resources are used to create, display, sustain, and escalate social oppositions?
Thus, were the opposition's dilatory tactics particularly troublesome, time could be extended.
Proposition 2b predicts that the government's agenda will become either less contentious or smaller or both when the opposition's power to delay is enhanced.
Considering the circumstances, one can argue that these simple, structured binary oppositions did have some logical appeal.
The ordering of oppositions on the stressed levels is determined by means of the phonic substance that differentiates the forms.
The two groups and their identities, in other words, were and still are constituted through an array of dialectic oppositions.
The second set corresponds to those morphosyntactic properties that reflect syntactic or semantic oppositions such as tense or agreement.
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Collocations withopposition


opposition

These are words often used in combination with opposition.

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active opposition
Later also, some mothers' activeopposition to the scheme was referred to in committee meetings.
armed opposition
A catalyst was needed to translate feelings of resentment and alienation into a broader theme of armedopposition.
binary opposition
This would seem to be a further binaryopposition in her work.
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