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单词 hostility
释义
hostility
noun
uk
/hɒsˈtɪl.ə.ti/us
/hɑːˈstɪl.ə.t̬i/

hostilitynoun(UNFRIENDLINESS)

C2[U]
anoccasionwhen someone isunfriendlyorshowsthat they do not like something:
敌意，不友好
Theyshowedopen(=obvious)hostilityto/towardstheirnewneighbours.他们对新邻居表现出了公开的敌意。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not being friendly
  • abrasive
  • abrasively
  • abrasiveness
  • abruptly
  • abruptness
  • antagonism
  • antagonistic
  • coolness
  • dourness
  • estrange
  • estranged
  • estrangement
  • forbidding
  • frigid
  • prickly
  • sourly
  • sourness
  • standoffish
  • standoffishly
  • standoffishness
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hostilitynoun(UNFRIENDLINESS)

C2[U]
anoccasionwhen someoneshowsthat they do notagreewith or like something
不同意，不喜欢
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Arguments & disagreements
  • argument
  • be (on) non-speakersidiom
  • belligerence
  • bickering
  • blow(someone/something)up
  • bust up
  • clash
  • conflict
  • contentiousness
  • contretemps
  • ding-dong
  • disagreement
  • dispute
  • dust-up
  • kerfuffle
  • misunderstanding
  • personality clash
  • rhubarb
  • spat
  • squabble
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hostilitynoun(FIGHTING)

hostilities[plural]formal
fightingin awar:
战斗；战争行为
Hostilitiesbegan/brokeoutjust aftermidnight.刚过午夜战斗便打响了。
Hostilities weresuspended(=fightingstoppedtemporarily)during thetalks.和谈期间暂时停战。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Fighting
  • a fight to the finishidiom
  • bellicosity
  • blood diamond
  • blow
  • boots on the groundidiom
  • call to arms
  • combat
  • come close to blowsidiom
  • conflict diamond
  • engagement
  • grapple
  • rout
  • scrimmage
  • shootout
  • skirmish
  • stoush
  • tangle
  • tangle withsomeone
  • tilt
  • turf war
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(Definition ofhostilityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhostility

hostility
It is objective, factual, formal, official, sometimes tending tohostility.
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I trust that it may help to end the baselesshostilityprevailing between economic theory and economic history.
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For artists in other provincial troupes, socialhostilityrendered it largely impossible for them to exert any influence over their employers.
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The communities can afford to take the moderate hostilities of others because their selfesteem has not been badly damaged.
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In fact, modern history is full of examples that show how politicians, to divide people and realize their own selfish ambitions, have exploited thishostility.
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The sustainedhostilityof employers to trade unions had ensured that workers could not lightly associate with them.
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The entire range of strategic interactions should be brought to bear - not merely thehostilityend of the scale.
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This study also found heterotypic continuity in fathers' hostile behaviors predicting the laterhostilityof their young adult offspring.
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But having conquered the town halls they sometimes met withhostilityfrom employees or from burgomasters appointed by the crown.
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And finally, two separate conceptualizations of racialhostilityare employed.
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Nevertheless, the concept of ahostility/friendliness system is perfectly sensible even if its operationalization is difficult.
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This effort was culturally entwined with campaigns for stylistic "modernism," aesthetic encomiums to design simplicity andhostilityto ornamental forms.
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Ayers paints a picture of two different societies living in reasonable harmony prior to hostilities.
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In contrast, all three markers of problems with autonomy in adolescent - father interactions were predictive of peerrated young adulthostility.
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We found that girls were actually more likely than boys to display increasedhostilityin the presence of increased interparental conflict.
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Collocationswithhostility

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These are words often used in combination withhostility.

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atmosphere of hostility
Thisatmosphereofhostilityis closely interwoven with the government's insufficient efforts at postwar reconciliation, as well as with chaotic process of land speculation and a confused resource tenure system.
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considerable hostility
I have just cited evidence showing considerable hostility from the start.
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feeling of hostility
I understand why there is this greatfeelingofhostility.
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