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confrontation

/kon-fruhn-tey-shuhn, -fruhn-/US // ˌkɒn frənˈteɪ ʃən, -frʌn- //UK // (ˌkɒnfrʌnˈteɪʃən) //

对抗,对立,对峙,对垒

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act of confronting.
    • : the state of being confronted.
    • : a meeting of persons face to face.
    • : an open conflict of opposing ideas, forces, etc.
    • : a bringing together of ideas, themes, etc., for comparison.
    • : Psychology. a technique used in group therapy, as in encounter groups, in which one is forced to recognize one's shortcomings and their possible consequences.

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Examples

  • For obvious reasons, that increases the likelihood of a violent confrontation.

  • The app’s developers claimed the app fostered public safety by letting users locate and avoid confrontations between protesters and police.

  • After a confrontation in which he fatally shot one man, police say, Rittenhouse fell while being chased by people trying to disarm him.

  • The confrontation, resolved over the weekend, is the latest in a string of clashes centering on the software sales-related growth engine of America’s most valuable company.

  • A confrontation with the police could have been very dangerous for Cooper.

  • Their confrontation at dinner was, without a doubt, the highlight of the episode.

  • Rioting, shoplifting, and violent confrontation with the police took place shortly thereafter.

  • A video of the confrontation shot by a bystander shows Garner surrounded by a group of police officers.

  • I need some stimulation in my blood,” Bergesio says, “and here you have confrontation.

  • Charles Barkley has never been one to shy away from confrontation both on and off the basketball court.

  • Never did God, who delights in antitheses, produce a more striking contrast, or a more extraordinary confrontation.

  • The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

  • And this new confrontation with another and still newer world, with another Unknown, demands a new religion, a new God.

  • But he cursed himself for a fool and a coward, not to have gone away—abroad—long ere such a possible confrontation threatened him.

  • At last she saw his table, and the direct confrontation of his stare.

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