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单词 antithesis
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antithesis
noun[C]
uk
/ænˈtɪθ.ə.sɪs/us
/ænˈtɪθ.ə.sɪs/
pluralantithesesuk
/ænˈtɪθ.ə.siːz/us
/ænˈtɪθ.ə.siːz/
theexactopposite:
正相反
She isslimandshy- the very antithesisofhersister.她身材苗条，性格腼腆，正好和她姐姐相反。
He is theexactantithesis of what Ifindattractivein men.我认为男性应有的魅力他一点都没有。
adifferenceoroppositionbetween two things:
Thanks to thecollapseofcommunismthepoliticalantithesisbetweenLeft and Right is lessimportant.由于共产主义的失败，左翼和右翼的对立显得不那么重要了。
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  • dichotomous
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  • go into reverseidiom
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(Definition ofantithesisfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
antithesis
noun[C]
uk
/ænˈtɪθ.ə.sɪs/us
/ænˈtɪθ.ə.sɪs/
pluralantithesesuk
/-siːz/us
theexactopposite
正相反
She isslimandshy- the very antithesisofhersister.她身材苗条，性格腼腆，正好和她姐姐相反。
He is theexactantithesis of what Ifindattractivein men.我认为男性应有的魅力他一点都没有。
acontrastbetween two things
对立；对照
Thanks to thecollapseofcommunismthepoliticalantithesisbetweenLeft and Right is lessimportant.由于共产主义的失败，左翼和右翼的对立显得不那么重要了。

antithesis| American Dictionary

antithesis
noun[C/U]
us
/ænˈtɪθ·ə·sɪs/
pluralantithesesus/ænˈtɪθ·əˌsiz/
theexactopposite, oropposition:
[C]Therelaxedcompanymanagementis the antithesis of aformalbureaucracy.
literature
Informalargument, the antithesis is theoppositeof thethesis(= themainidea).
(Definition ofantithesisfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofantithesis

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In the world today we face two great economic antitheses.
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Economic development and the protection of the environment are not antitheses.
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Now, how are all these curious antitheses to be explained?
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Too often it is conducted in terms of unbridgeable opposites, false antitheses and exaggerated choices.
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Are they not antitheses of each other?
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Coercive political action often appears the ultimateantithesisof the politics of liberalism.
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There is an important sense in which they provide interpretive categories through which religious feelings (at the level of theantithesis) are understood.
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The higher consciousness can only exist insofar as it is related to theantithesisof the sensible self-consciousness between self and world.
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In the second grade of consciousness there is self-consciousness, and hence a grasp of theantithesisbetween the self and the world.
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The zar becomes theantithesisof a - desired - and male-controlled - modernity.
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Internally, the environment is theantithesisof tradition, bathed in the northern light.
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Again, there is no fixedantithesisbetween the human and the spirit worlds.
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He used the most extravagant metaphors, the most forced antitheses and the most far-fetched conceits.
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Historians have seen in his occult activities a penchant for forging unities from antitheses, thus having latent political import.
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In order to discredit modern architecture, he needed to ratify itsantithesis.
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