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单词 opponent
释义
opponent
noun[C]
uk
/əˈpəʊ.nənt/us
/əˈpoʊ.nənt/
B2
apersonwhodisagreeswith something andspeaksagainst it ortriestochangeit:
反对者
apoliticalopponent政敌
Leading opponentsoftheproposedcutsindefencespendingwillmeetlatertoday.反对削减国防开支建议的带头人将在今天晚些时候会面。
B2
apersonwho someone iscompetingagainst in asportsevent:
（体育比赛中的）对手
In the secondgame, her opponenthurtherlegand had toretire.在第二局，她的对手拉伤了腿，不得不退出比赛。
More examples
  • She had adecidedadvantageover her opponent.
  • Shehittheballso hard that her opponent had nochancetoestablishanyrhythmin hergame.
  • Turner's opponent in thequarter-finalsof thedartsis the No. 1seed.
  • Targeting the opponent'sweakspotsis atypicaltechniqueinpolitics.
  • Hisbadbehaviourprovidedplenty ofammunitionfor his opponents.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Opposing & against
  • ad hominem
  • alienate
  • alienated
  • antagonism
  • antagonistic
  • anti-boycott
  • antithetical
  • insurgent
  • nimby
  • nimbyism
  • non-confidence
  • object
  • oppositional
  • outcry
  • protest
  • raise
  • resistant
  • sail against the windidiom
  • versus
  • virulent
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Enemies & rivals
Competitors & participants in sports & games
(Definition ofopponentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

opponent| American Dictionary

opponent
noun[C]
us
/əˈpoʊ·nənt/

opponentnoun[C](OPPOSING POSITION)

apersonwhodisagreeswith something andspeaksagainst it ortriestochangeit:
Opponents of theprojectfearit willattractundesirables.

opponentnoun[C](COMPETITOR)

apersonyou arecompetingagainst,esp. inpoliticsorsports:
Hischiefopponent in theNovemberelectionwill beJimCrowley.
(Definition ofopponentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofopponent

opponent
To make such decisions would require agents to be fully informed about their opponents, the environment, and the issues at stake.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The government had no opponents, whether within their own party or on the opposite benches, who could block the march of legislation.
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In their search for the source of disagreement, the opponents move in the direction of foundations.
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The (perhaps rather obvious) point to make about all the divisions of the 1620s is that both sides were seeking to silence their opponents.
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In the case of criminal justice, several stinging defeats for opponents of civil rights galvanized a powerful elite countermovement.
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How does one assess a case where the emperor acts by seeking to restrain the military or pacify domestic opponents?
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Looking back at these arguments forty years later, the opponents to the militarisation project were absolutely correct.
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Advocates attacked opponents where it hurt most, questioning and challenging their key argument and standing it on its head.
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Generally, the opponents were to be found in the larger urban areas, but by no means all urban politicos were opponents.
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According to context the term superstition might designate controversial beliefs, the practice of confessional opponents or the beliefs of the ignorant masses.
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His diplomatic approach throws the problems back to the opponents' side.
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A productive next step also might identify other critical behaviours that are influenced by people's status as supporters or opponents of those in power.
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Rationalist explanations of civil conflict have emphasized the co-ordination problems faced by would-be opponents of stable governance.
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Both sought to expose the reality, as they saw it, of their opponent's politics.
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The role of honest broker in negotiations between loquacious opponents, however, was not to the ambassador's liking.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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Collocationswithopponent

opponent

These are words often used in combination withopponent.

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bitter opponent
I have been abitteropponentof purchase tax ever since it was instituted in 1940.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
conservative opponents
It was not for nothing that his conservative opponents spoke of him as a ' very evil man '.!
From theCambridge English Corpus
determined opponent
He has also shown himself a determined opponent to us in the past.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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