| 词汇 | antagonize |
| 释义 | antagonize verb[ T ] (UK usuallyantagonise)uk /ænˈtæɡ.ə.naɪz/ us /ænˈtæɡ.ə.naɪz/ to make someone dislike you or feel opposed to you: 使对抗，使对立;引起…的敌意（或反感） It's a very delicate situation and I've no wish to antagonize him.这是一种很棘手的局面，而我无意使他和我反目成仇。 Causing feelings of anger and displeasure aggravate aggrieve alienate anger annoy bend go too faridiom goat grate hack someone off harass nark rub rub someone up the wrong wayidiom ruffle ruffle someone's feathersidiom set someone's teeth on edgeidiom tit tooth troll antagonize | American Dictionaryantagonize verb[ T ] us/ænˈtæɡ·əˌnɑɪz/ to anger someone enough to dislike and oppose you: The company doesn’t want to antagonize one of its biggest oil suppliers. Examples of antagonizeantagonize The receptor systems that have been antagonized pharmacologically and the brain regions that have been lesioned. With small annulus inner diameter the center and surround antagonize each other to produce a diminished response. His policies of political restriction and economic development through functional inequality antagonized a large portion of the population. The glutamate analog 2-amino-4-phosphonobutyrate antagonizes synaptic transmission from cones to horizontal cells in the goldfish retina. In attempting to reconcile the church with the scientific tradition, he ran the risk of antagonizing both reactionary and progressive opinion. Such tactics could only have antagonized local interests. His dilemma was how to prevent them from becoming overmighty without antagonizing them by acting against their interests. Progesterone via its receptor antagonizes the proinflammatory activity of estrogen in the mouse uterus. The gap junction blockers carbenoxolone and 18beta-glycyrrhetinic acid antagonize cone-driven light responses in the mouse retina. As shown above, phentolamine antagonized octopaminergic priming of transient rhabdom shedding. Here too, problems were compounded by minimizing proven environmental difficulties and antagonizing the local population. Vasodilators are molecules which increase blood flow by antagonizing vasoconstrictors produced by the haemostatic system following tissue injury. When asked why they paid higher charges than were required by law, a common response was that it was simply not worth antagonizing environmental inspectors. Payne feared that the latter mandate, by antagonizing prevailing sentiment about the respect and authority due the church, would undermine the former. Did they antagonize one another and in which points and how? 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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