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单词 resistance
释义
resistance
noun
uk
/rɪˈzɪs.təns/us
/rɪˈzɪs.təns/
C2[U]
theactoffightingagainst something that isattackingyou, orrefusingtoacceptsomething:
抵抗；反抗；反对
resistancetodisease抗病
Governmenttroopsofferedno resistance (totherebels).政府军没有（对叛军）作出任何抵抗。
There's a lot of resistance(=opposition)totheideaof aunitedEurope.很多人反对欧洲大一统的想法。
[U]
aforcethatactstostoptheprogressof something or make itslower:
阻力
The car'sspeedwasreducedbyair/windresistance.汽车速度因为空气／风的阻力而下降。
[CorU]physicsspecialized
thedegreeto which asubstancepreventstheflowof anelectriccurrentthrough it:
电阻
Copper has (a)lowresistance.铜的电阻很小。
More examples
  • Thearmyisreportedto beencounteringconsiderableresistance.
  • Bacteria areevolvingresistance toantibiotics.
  • He wasfamedfor hisstubbornresistance and hisrefusaltoacceptdefeat.
  • There has beenstrongresistance to theproposedtaxincreases.
  • Following adeterminedresistance in theeast, there waseventuallyapopularuprisingin thecapital.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Responding to an attack
  • beat
  • beatsomeoneoff
  • beatsomeone/somethingback
  • capitulate
  • counter-assault
  • counterattack
  • countercharge
  • fendsomeoneoff
  • fight
  • hold
  • parry
  • pull
  • pull back
  • repel
  • repulse
  • resist
  • retreat
  • stand
  • strike
  • white flag
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Electricity & electronics

Idiom

the path of least resistance
the Resistance
noun
uk
/rɪˈzɪs.təns/us
/rɪˈzɪs.təns/
anorganizationthatsecretlyfightsagainst anenemythat has takencontrolofitscountry
地下抵抗组织，秘密抵抗组织
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Taking action against people in power
  • anarchist
  • angry young man
  • anti-apartheid
  • anti-revolutionary
  • anti-state
  • insurgency
  • insurrection
  • jihadi
  • mujahideen
  • mutineer
  • rebelliously
  • rebelliousness
  • recusant
  • red flag
  • revolt
  • subversively
  • subversiveness
  • suicide bomber
  • terrorist
  • topple
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Responding to an attack
(Definition ofresistancefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

resistance| American Dictionary

resistance
noun[U]
us
/rɪˈzɪs·təns/
science,physics
Resistance is thedegreeto which asubstancepreventstheflowofelectricitythrough it:
Copper haslowresistance.
(Definition ofresistancefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

resistance| Business English

resistance
noun[U]
uk
/rɪˈzɪstəns/us
asituationin whichpeopleororganizationsfightagainst something orrefusetoacceptor bechangedby something:
resistance to sthThegovernmentfacesresistance to thebill.
There should be no resistance to the newmanagementstructure
aforcewhichactstostoptheprogressof something or make itslower:
Thecarisdesignedwithwindresistancethatcutsdowngasmileage.
See also
consumer resistance
investor resistance
sales resistance
(Definition ofresistancefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofresistance

resistance
If all other resistances are constant, a given level of conductance of the synaptic membrane determines unique values of membrane potential and length constant.
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If the possible range of resistances spans 6.5 units, then a lung biopsy may be needed in order to plan further management.
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Most importantly, these should be valued and not rejected as ' resistances ' and in some way perverse.
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Professional helpers and resistances to working with older people.
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At the same time, these arguments gained meaning and political force in the context of indigenous resistances to fiscal centralization.
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There was a trend towards loss of multiple resistances.
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In general, disease-causing pathogens are more capable of overcoming single, major gene resistances than multi-gene, durable resistances32.
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Cefalexin and chloramphenicol resistances were 10.7% and 3.6 % respectively and none was resistant to ceftriaxone.
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In this study, pulmonary, vascular and systemic vascular resistances were calculated from estimated values for oxygen consumption.
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Pulmonary pressures and resistances will undoubtedly increase and may become fixed in the course of the disease.
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Because the peak amplitude of the capacitative currents was attenuated by the limited sampling frequency of the recording system, the series resistances were overestimated.
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Now we did understand that the propositions left handwritten were meant for a treatise quite different from that concerning resistances.
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In both approaches earlier, now almost quaint, rhetoric of 'negotiating' identities has devolved into power/knowledge struggles across endless networks of resistances.
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There are always resistances and gaps, and these today often focus on the self.
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Priorities, congestions, resistances, and rmax are all defined as before.
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Collocationswithresistance

resistance

These are words often used in combination withresistance.

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acquired resistance
Acquired resistance in mice and rats after exposure to gamma-irradiated cercariae.
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act of resistance
And it was anactofresistanceagainst what seemed like an ascendant materialism.
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active resistance
Passive resistance had to be "masculine, bold and ardent in its spirit" and capable of switching over toactiveresistance.
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