| 词组 | opposition |
| 释义 | opposition Opposition, when used with a preposition, is usually followed by to: • ... was sometimes in active opposition to the school to which Laura gave her adherence —Archibald Marshall, Anthony Dare, 1923 • The early theater suffered the brunt of moral opposition to the arts —American Guide Series: New York, 1940 • ... was also in the vanguard of the opposition to a renewal of the demand for subsidies —C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction, 2d ed. rev., 1956 • ... he was in opposition to the Democratic majority —Current Biography, January 1968 Opposition also has been used—in a different relation and with paired objects—with between or of; they occur less frequently: • ... Rousseau ... accepts the natural opposition between imagination and reason —Irving Babbitt, The New Laokoon, 1910 • ... the opposition between the complete classical form and the open ... blurred form of romantic poetry —René Wellek, in Twentieth Century English, ed. William S. Knickerbocker, 1946 • ... I propose ... to consider how the concrete educated thought of men has viewed this opposition of mechanism and organism —Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, 1925 • ... he is seldom content to allow his opposition of separateness and union to work on a reader's feelings —E. K. Brown, Rhythm in the Novel, 1950 Opposition has also been used, but considerably less often, with against: • ... maintains a steady opposition against the general proposal of the Committee —Manchester Guardian Weekly, 18 Dec. 1936 |
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