| 单词 | adverse |
| 释义 | ad·verse I. 1. < adverse winds > < hindered by adverse forces > : hostile, opposed, antagonistic < her feelings were still adverse to any man save one — Jane Austen > < a spirit adverse to class distinctions > 2. a. < an adverse balance of trade > < circumstances adverse to success > < adverse fortune > < an adverse verdict > b. < irritated by adverse reviews of his play > < overheard several adverse comments > 3. a. < Calpe's adverse height — Lord Byron > < the two adverse carriages would therefore, to a certainty, be traveling on the same side — Thomas De Quincey > b. botany < adverse leaves > — opposed to averse 4. law Synonyms: < what very small things in adverse circumstances suffice to make people happy — a little food, warmth, and something to look forward to — Hervey Allen > < an adverse wind had so delayed him that his cargo brought but half its proper price — Amy Lowell > inimical may describe strongly adversative or prejudicial tendencies or effects or determinedly hostile persons, sometimes malevolent < the fact of universal elementary education is inimical to poetry — C.D.Lewis > < nor was Miss Briggs, although forced to adopt a hostile attitude, secretly inimical to Rawdon — W.M.Thackeray > antagonistic, more frequently applied to persons than to things, may suggest incompatibility, antipathy, irreconcilability, or hostile opposition < the West Indian planters, upon whom the successful working of the system largely depended, were not merely unsympathetic but violently antagonistic to it — Times Literary Supplement > < the antagonistic principles of aristocracy and democracy — V.L.Parrington > counter may be applied to opposition, to action or tendency in an opposing direction, sometimes to parrying, retaliation, or reprisal < as I reached the limit of my swing and prepared to rush back on the counter swing — Jack London > < currents and counter currents > < a counter threat that the interdict would be followed by the banishment of the clergy — J.R.Green > counteractive refers to opposition tending to check, nullify, or destroy < counteractive measures against the epidemic > II. < adverse a land patent > |
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