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antipodes

/an-tip-uh-deez/US // ænˈtɪp əˌdiz //UK // (ænˈtɪpəˌdiːz) //

反义词,反之亦然,反义肢

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Definitions

n.名词(复数) plural noun
  1. 1
    • : places diametrically opposite each other on the globe.
    • : those who dwell there.

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Examples

  • I am out of conceit with England just now; and would far rather have gone to the Antipodes.

  • The voyage was much longer than a voyage to the Antipodes now is; and the adventurers suffered much.

  • Alexander had chosen an envoy who was the very antipodes of the adroit and elegant Caulaincourt.

  • Here we are in his house; and he driven away to lay his sly old bones at the Antipodes.

  • The Countess had in the course of time poetized, as I may say, a thing which is at the antipodes to poetry—a manufacture.