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单词 counterpose
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Definition of counterpose in English:

counterpose

verb kaʊntəˈpəʊzˌkoun(t)ərˈpōz
[with object]
  • Set against or in opposition to.

    his book counterposes the darkness of formal religion to the inner light of personal spirituality
    Example sentencesExamples
    • My investigation counterposes two modes of narrative vision suggested by fictive looks at death: reflective and refractive.
    • In opposition to globalization, these groups counterpose an idealized notion of an earlier period of American capitalism when the national market and national state played a more dominant role in economic life.
    • The first would be some variant of Marxist theory which counterposes a notion of ‘real’ interests to a notion of ideology.
    • But it is too simplistic to counterpose the idea of Mozart as a product of the Enlightenment to the idea of the composer as a born genius.
    • By counterposing the countryside to the city in this manner, the ‘uncivilized’ nature of the former is again contrasted with the ‘civilized’ nature of the latter.
    • The Alliance platform venerates the traditional bourgeois family, proclaiming it ‘the most basic building of society’ and counterposing it to so-called ‘big government.’
    • The notion of the many growing out of the one is counterposed in mythology by the idea of two opposing principles of existence, the struggles and foment of which provide the seeds of creation.
    • To this tradition, he counterposes an alternative way of understanding the past - as that which we can ‘feel behind us as an incontestable acquisition’.
    • The European Union is facing very high unemployment, and two antagonistic social logics are counterposed to each other.
    • By counterposing the ‘virtual’ world to the ‘real’ world, Dreyfus falls into the same dualism as the Platonic and Cartesian traditions he derides.
    • They counterpose their views with the views of many modern scientists - who dissect nature in an attempt to isolate and understand its workings.
    • The novelty of this book is that it counterposes sociobiology to developmental biology rather than its traditional foe, anti-biological approaches to human sociality.
    • But never do they probe the reasons for this phenomenon, merely counterposing the ‘bad ‘- finance capital and speculation - to the ‘good ‘- productive capital.’
    • Historians have often counterposed their work, presenting Matisse as a maker of luxuriously coloured, harmonious images, and Picasso as the more conceptual painter, who emphasized form over colour and anguish over serenity.
    • Another key is cultivating a political outlook that does not counterpose solidarity and diversity so that more of one means less of the other.
    • He counterposes images with voice-over narration in perplexing ways, as in Diary of a Country Priest.
    • Poetic anti-discourse is dependent on the fragmentation of capitalism, modernity, and individualism, to which it counterposes social cohesion.
    • It counterposes the countryside to the city, and its rhetoric runs along clearly reactionary lines.
    • One of the recurring themes in your work is that you counterpose the concept of property and property rights with the realization of a society based on human rights.
    • He counterposed freedom to the slippery ideal of democracy.

Derivatives

  • counterposition

  • nounˌkaʊntəpəˈzɪʃ(ə)nˌkaʊn(t)ərpəˈzɪʃ(ə)n
    mass noun
    • The action of setting one thing against another.

      the conventional counterposition of brain to brawn
      Example sentencesExamples
      • count noun every position in this area has a complex counterposition
      • This debate appears as a counterposition between ensuring creators' remuneration and protecting civil liberties.
      • Every position in this area has a complex counterposition, so I should not hope to draw on some philosophical consensus for use in theological discussion.
      • This makes an interesting counterposition to the dwindling bunch of free market supporters in Britain and the USA who broadcast their ‘pro-market, anti-business' sentiments.
 
 

Definition of counterpose in US English:

counterpose

verbˌkoun(t)ərˈpōz
[with object]
  • Set against or in opposition to.

    his book counterposes the darkness of formal religion to the inner light of personal spirituality
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The novelty of this book is that it counterposes sociobiology to developmental biology rather than its traditional foe, anti-biological approaches to human sociality.
    • One of the recurring themes in your work is that you counterpose the concept of property and property rights with the realization of a society based on human rights.
    • To this tradition, he counterposes an alternative way of understanding the past - as that which we can ‘feel behind us as an incontestable acquisition’.
    • Another key is cultivating a political outlook that does not counterpose solidarity and diversity so that more of one means less of the other.
    • They counterpose their views with the views of many modern scientists - who dissect nature in an attempt to isolate and understand its workings.
    • The Alliance platform venerates the traditional bourgeois family, proclaiming it ‘the most basic building of society’ and counterposing it to so-called ‘big government.’
    • But never do they probe the reasons for this phenomenon, merely counterposing the ‘bad ‘- finance capital and speculation - to the ‘good ‘- productive capital.’
    • The European Union is facing very high unemployment, and two antagonistic social logics are counterposed to each other.
    • By counterposing the countryside to the city in this manner, the ‘uncivilized’ nature of the former is again contrasted with the ‘civilized’ nature of the latter.
    • By counterposing the ‘virtual’ world to the ‘real’ world, Dreyfus falls into the same dualism as the Platonic and Cartesian traditions he derides.
    • He counterposed freedom to the slippery ideal of democracy.
    • But it is too simplistic to counterpose the idea of Mozart as a product of the Enlightenment to the idea of the composer as a born genius.
    • The notion of the many growing out of the one is counterposed in mythology by the idea of two opposing principles of existence, the struggles and foment of which provide the seeds of creation.
    • It counterposes the countryside to the city, and its rhetoric runs along clearly reactionary lines.
    • Historians have often counterposed their work, presenting Matisse as a maker of luxuriously coloured, harmonious images, and Picasso as the more conceptual painter, who emphasized form over colour and anguish over serenity.
    • Poetic anti-discourse is dependent on the fragmentation of capitalism, modernity, and individualism, to which it counterposes social cohesion.
    • The first would be some variant of Marxist theory which counterposes a notion of ‘real’ interests to a notion of ideology.
    • My investigation counterposes two modes of narrative vision suggested by fictive looks at death: reflective and refractive.
    • He counterposes images with voice-over narration in perplexing ways, as in Diary of a Country Priest.
    • In opposition to globalization, these groups counterpose an idealized notion of an earlier period of American capitalism when the national market and national state played a more dominant role in economic life.
 
 
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