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vehemence

/vee-uh-muhns/US // ˈvi ə məns //

激烈程度,猛烈抨击,喧嚣,愤怒

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the quality of being vehement; ardor; fervor.
    • : vigorous impetuosity; fury: the vehemence of his attack.

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Examples

  • I’ve been surprised by the vehemence of people’s opinions about public health questions — making them personal, political.

  • The vehemence of the experts I spoke with surprised me, but the substance of what they said did not.

  • They seemed taken aback by the vehemence of Stebbins’ arguments.

  • And this, more than anything, explains the size and vehemence of the protests.

  • Armstrong spent more than a decade denying with great vehemence what he may now be preparing to admit.

  • The “special vehemence” that Geronimo brought to raids there could be dated almost precisely to a night in 1851.

  • V is for vehemence, which the Tea Party movement has in abundance.

  • She is unmatched in both the relentlessness and vehemence of her image-rehabilitation campaign.

  • It burst upon them ere long with awful fury and grandeur, the elements warring with incredible vehemence.

  • These remarks were uttered with such vehemence, that not a word was lost, and the whole coach became convulsed with laughter.

  • As Couthon, a Jacobin orator, was uttering deep denunciations, he became breathless with the vehemence of his passionate speech.

  • Mrs. Martin, amused with the vehemence with which the old man spoke out his mind, replied, with a smile.

  • His satires are also admirable, but without the fierce vehemence and lofty indignation that characterized those of Juvenal.