英语单词 | confrontation |
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英美音标 | 英 [ˌkɒnfrʌn'teɪʃən] 美 [ˌkɒnfrʌn'teɪʃən] |
中文释义 | n.对抗;冲突 |
英语例句 | (1) Banks often enter into confrontation. (2) Even a limited confrontation can escalate into a major war. (3) The Arab-Israeli confrontation is causing our firm serious difficulties. (4) Her angry face forbode a confrontation. (5) She wanted to avoid another confrontation with her father. (6) We should avoid confrontation as much as possible. |
中文例句 | (1) 银行之间经常形成对抗局面。 (2) 即使是局部的对抗也可能扩大成一场大战。 (3) 阿拉伯国家和以色列的对抗给我们公司带来严重困难。 (4) 她一脸怒气预示将有一场冲突。 (5) 她想避免和父亲再次发生冲突。 (6) 我们应该尽量避免正面冲突。 |
vocabulary简明 | A confrontation is an angry disagreement. You might become so irritated about your upstairs neighbor's loud, awful music that a confrontation is unavoidable. |
vocabulary扩展 | Confrontation implies hostility, although like a fight, a confrontation can involve actual violence, or just a clash of words. A confrontation often refers to a military encounter involving opposing armies. This meaning became popular after the Cuban missile crisis in 1963. Before that, confrontation was used to mean "bringing two opposing parties face to face," from the Latin word confrontationem. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-VAR 可变名词]对抗;冲突;战斗;战役 A confrontation is a dispute, fight, or battle between two groups of people. [oft N
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