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opponent

/uh-poh-nuhnt/US // əˈpoʊ nənt //UK // (əˈpəʊnənt) //

对手,反对者,对方,对立面

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is on an opposing side in a game, contest, controversy, or the like; adversary.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : being opposite, as in position.
    • : opposing; adverse; antagonistic.
    • : Anatomy. bringing parts together or into opposition, as a muscle.

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Examples

  • Maryland hasn’t played the same opponent on back-to-back nights since January 1949 at Miami.

  • The game at Texas Southern was thrown together Friday, about 30 hours before tip-off, when Texas Southern also had an opponent suddenly cancel because of the virus.

  • At just 19, he’s accustomed to being hunted by every opponent and still finding a way to make you remember him.

  • First off, California may have been Democratic-leaning in 2003, but it has a notably deeper shade of blue today, which will make it more challenging for Newsom’s opponents to engineer his ouster.

  • Campbell said she simply doesn’t buy into vacation rental opponents’ thinking that banning them altogether is possible.

  • Despite the scandal, Grimm beat his Democratic opponent by 18 points in November.

  • One would be hard-pressed to find an earlier opponent of the Nazis than Dietrich von Hildebrand.

  • Mired in ideological warfare, America faces her most formidable opponent yet— herself.

  • This opponent is like no other Rodgers has to face on the gridiron.

  • Perhaps the greatest irony remains that civil rights titan Caesar Chavez was a lifelong opponent of illegal immigration.

  • He realized, as his mother had realized a little while before, that in Garnache they had an opponent who took no chances.

  • In a trial in the King's Bench, Mr. Erskine, counsel for the defendant, was charged by his opponent with traveling out of his way.

  • Scarcely had he smoothed the way with one opponent than another sprung up in an unexpected quarter.

  • As for the slipperiness of the ground, my opponent will run no greater risks than I. I am not the only impatient one.

  • Augereau at first confined himself to parrying, but at last, being wounded, he thrust out and killed his opponent.