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Adverse Fronting Turned French Avers 6393.Adverse 英 ædvɜːs]美

正面 6393.adverse
英 ['ædvɜːs]美 [ædˈvɚs, ˈædˌvɚs]

背面
释义:
adj. 不利的;相反的;敌对的(名词adverseness,副词adversely)
例句:
1. Despite the adverse conditions, the road was finished in just eight months.尽管存在种种不利情况,公路还是仅用8个月就完工了。

1、ad- "to" + vers- + -e.2、含义:turned toward, fronting, facing, turned against. => hostile, adverse, unfavorable.
adverse 不利的前缀ad-, 去,往。词根verse, 转。转走的,对着干的。
adverse (adj.)late 14c., "contrary, opposing," from Old French avers (13c., Modern French adverse) "antagonistic, unfriendly, contrary, foreign" (as in gent avers "infidel race"), from Latin adversus "turned against, turned toward, fronting, facing," figuratively "hostile, adverse, unfavorable," past participle of advertere, from ad- "to" (see ad-) + vertere "to turn" (see versus). Related: Adversely."

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