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noun ˈkaʊntəˈkaʊn(t)ər 1A long flat-topped fitment across which business is conducted in a shop or bank or refreshments are served in a cafeteria. Example sentencesExamples - Having eaten these we were hard pressed to ignore the shop counter as we departed.
- Mrs. Wallace stands at the counter of her pie shop.
- The cinema includes digital photographic services, cafe, refreshment counters, and decor that reflects the history and glamour of the art of film-making.
- Boyd had a daring, flamboyant style, and often jumped over bank counters in his lightning quick hold-ups.
- Some supporters are also signing petitions displayed on the counters of shops and other businesses throughout the city centre.
- But after more than three years in operation, the number of bags crossing shop counters - while still a fraction of the number used a few years ago - is creeping up.
- I even love queuing at counters during the Christmas shopping frenzy and falling flat on my backside in the slippery snow.
- Relatively little euro currency will be passed over bank counters, retail experts believe.
- Shop assistants who no longer needed to serve behind counters would be available to circulate and answer questions about the price, size and quality of goods.
- I released a book into the wild, and it's on the counter at our new shop.
- Every time, a customer pushes open the glass door of a supermarket, or steps up to the wooden counter of a grocery shop, there is a chance for the seller to make big bucks.
- You can avoid these lines by not having anything that has to be checked or if you do not have to conduct any business at the ticket counter.
- He told us that it had all begun when he used magnetic ink to encode his bank account number on the bottom line of a wad of blank deposit slips that banks provide at their counters.
- The couple now hope to travel, read and relax away from the shop counter and the routine of a small business.
- They also appreciate public support for collection boxes on many shop counters around the town.
- The shops would have deli counters, which offer high profit margins, serving hot food.
- The level of business at post office counters is declining rapidly.
- One morning I went to the shop and a young girl served me at the counter.
- While you go around various car accessories shop stalls and insurance counters, children'll have fun at painting and quiz contests.
- I'm the kind of person who gets kept waiting at counters in shops.
- 1.1North American A worktop.
Example sentencesExamples - Kristen said sadly putting her drink on the counter.
- I set my drink on the counter, it was already half empty.
- She set the food out on the counter in a straight line.
- Just as I began searching on the counter for my keys Nick walked into the kitchen in just a pair of sweatpants, and said in a chipper tone.
- Coming back to the real world, she started washing off the counters and tables in the cafe before the store officially opened for the day.
- It wasn't enough to make her forget those particular folders on the counter before she left, however.
- Katrina tossed her bag in it, and grabbed a pen off the kitchen counter.
- Amanda started wiping the counter with a damp rag.
- Clearing the counters of food items and shoving dishes into the sink, I ran a wet cloth over the various surfaces to remove crumbs and spills.
- Chaz grabbed a stool and put his food on the counter.
- Her mother slammed the plates down on the countertop, wondrously not breaking them but making a mess as Megan's uneaten food spilled on the counter.
Synonyms worktop, work surface, worktable, table, bench, buffet, top, horizontal surface checkout, bar, stand
2A small disc used in board games for keeping the score or as a place marker. （棋盘游戏中标志位置或记分的）小圆板 Example sentencesExamples - Most board games, especially war games, use cardboard counters or chits.
- Those work quite well as all sorts of counters and tokens.
- The game, played with counters and dice, is already proving a big hit - so much so that more copies are being produced to be distributed next year.
- It was used for making pendants, finger rings, playing counters, dice and even spindle whorls.
- Players land ships at anchorages and venture inland in search of buried treasure by putting counters on numbered squares after throwing dice.
- According to the rules you need nothing more than your brain and a pack of cards, so it's a lot cheaper than the usual awful party games that cost £29.99 for a box, three dice and six counters.
- Although chess, draughts, dice and gambling were forbidden, counters and dice were also found during the dig.
Synonyms token, chip, disc, jetton piece, man, marker, wafer North American check - 2.1 A token representing a coin.
筹码；代币 Example sentencesExamples - The name merels comes from the low Latin word merrelus, meaning a ‘token, counter or coin’.
- 2.2 A factor used to give one party an advantage in negotiations.
（谈判中的）砝码；有利条件 the proposal has become a crucial bargaining counter over prices 此项提议已成为价格谈判中的重要砝码。
3A device used for counting. 计数器，计算器 the counter tells you how many pictures you have taken 计数器告诉你拍了多少张照片了。 Example sentencesExamples - The error counter is responsive to input signals and the feedback signals for generating error signals.
- For example, Geiger - Mueller counters, the familiar clicking boxes seen in the movies, were first sold in the 1930s.
- Pennies are a completely useless coin, not able to be used in vending machines, toll roads and perhaps not least importantly, Las Vegas coin counters.
- My counter for this website records that the site has just received its ten thousandth visitor.
- All microswitches and counters were controlled by a central power source connected to a digital timer set to turn on one hour after sunset and turn off one hour before sunrise.
- When the voter wishes to make no further changes, he or she pulls a large lever, which registers the votes on a counter located at the back of the machine.
- So I went in with a calorie counter to analyze the last three day's meals.
- In 1912, George Julius converted his invented mechanical vote counter into a mechanical totalisator.
- The receiver simply synchronizes its counter to the value transmitted by the remote, and opens the garage door.
- Really, I've never built anything much more computationally complicated than a counter of single-photons.
- Commerce has stated that it doesn't intend to make any money from the fee-free coin counters, which customers and non-customers are invited to use.
- Some sort of centrifugal device that only triggered the counter if it was activated by the centrifugal force of the drum turning.
- The novelty of the electronic counter at the [Overbridge] traffic signal is yet to wear off, and the constables posted at the busy junction seem to be a more relaxed lot these days.
- So I installed a hit counter to see what was going on.
- My hit counter started bleeding in the thousands following the election but seems to have recovered somewhat.
- It is suitable for a range of applications including timers, controllers, counters, test equipment or systems requiring an electronic display.
- Maybe I had picked up the wrong gadget, and it was a calorie counter, primed to record a Big Mac and fries.
- 3.1 A person who counts something, for example votes in an election.
计数者，计算者 Example sentencesExamples - In particular, it scales well as the number of available ballot counters is proportional to the number of voters.
- It was only a few hours after the general election results that the counters were again sifting through ballot papers.
- They claim vote counters used arbitrary standards in counting ballots.
- With the touchscreen machines, however, the very counters of the votes can steal at will - and seem to be doing it widely.
- And vote counters should be nonpartisan public servants, not secretive corporations or party hacks.
- The counters are casting votes, not counting votes.
- Members of the election committee, ballot counters and voting station officials have all been trained on their individual functions and are prepared for the election.
- Hoppe said that vote counters decided to invalidate approximately 40 ballots, mostly due to multiple check marks.
- At the other end, you get computers to help the counters to count the votes.
- I voted today, and I would bet money that I am the only one in this county who voted for him; the vote counters probably think it was a joke ballot.
- Vote counters in Florida are racing against time to complete a hand recount that could decide who is the next US president.
- It could even make things worse, by adding more translation layers between the voters and the vote counters and preventing recounts.
- And tensions ran high as well, forcing a county judge there to warn vote counters and observers to be more civil toward each other.
- Is he suggesting that, in some way, the vote counters have got it wrong?
- You can see that the counters are examining these votes very carefully, and I must tell you that they look very tired to me, poor people sitting there.
- Also, if the ballot counters can't figure out who voted for who, like last time, having the pre-election polls on your side makes it easier for you to steal the election.
- A team of 50 counters spent more than six hours checking and totalling the votes, as the candidates and their supporters looked on, while keeping an eye on the national election coverage.
- Independent proxy counters must verify votes, and each side can challenge.
- ‘What you're looking at here are the exit poll counters,’ says Quest.
- 3.2Physics An apparatus used for counting individual ionizing particles or events.
〔物理〕（计算电离子数量或电离次数的）计算器 Example sentencesExamples - A counter in the clock tracks the time it takes for most of the atoms to make the shift.
- The system also provides for designating the general purpose counters to monitor selected events in programs.
- The microwave frequency was monitored with a frequency counter.
- The ferrioxalate actinometer is a photon counter and is sensitive to wavelengths less than 450 nm.
- The status of these sensors is monitored by a counter that feeds information to a data logger.
- The peaks themselves are detected by starting a counter at the first sample in the rectified waveform which is above the first threshold value.
- One was a particle counter installed on the second layer of the Whipple shield protecting the spacecraft's main body.
- In exchange for some frequency counters and plug-in modules for oscilloscopes, they got the power supply.
- A simple event counter can check how frequently a pump comes on.
- A datalogger with an event counter can be used to record the readings.
- The event is recognized as a macroscopic discontinuity in the counter.
- Today, a variety of instruments are in use for determining speed including electromagnetic sensors and engine revolution counters.
PhrasesServing in a shop or bank. 站柜台；（在商店或银行）当服务员 he drove to the store and flirted with two sisters behind the counter Example sentencesExamples - In Horns the Baker, Rose Mulhulland, who works behind the counter, said she did not believe it was a good idea.
- Marian has seen huge changes in the post office in her years behind the counter.
- I told my friend Catherine behind the counter that I wanted to browse the magazines.
- The girl behind the counter in the shop was shutting up for the long afternoon lull.
- Imagine our surprise then when we detected a strong Tralee accent behind the counter.
- Unlike Western fast food joints, there just one spotty teen behind the counter.
- A small, thin woman with a lined faced and dyed brown hair, also about sixty, stays behind the counter.
- We left the gallery and told the guy behind the counter how much we liked it and asked, are you the artist?
- There were a couple of customers, and only one person[bloke] behind the counter, and the phone was ringing off the hook.
- He was such a regular of the Flavas fried chicken shop that he greeted the confused man behind the counter like an old friend.
- Frustration is written all over the face of the man behind the counter.
- [Three,] A friend of the folks in the flat below who works behind the counter at a clothing store.
- They have two men working behind the counter; no matter what day of the week or time of day I go in, always the same two men.
- The screaming could be heard for miles, as could my laughter, and the laughter of the guys behind the counter.
- You could wave a wad of twenties at the girls behind the counter but it would do no good for they have no facility to take cash.
- There were 2 women stood chatting to each other behind the counter as I approached to pay.
- The people behind the counter told us the shop had been there for one month.
- They have witnessed many changes in the grocery trade during their time behind the counter.
- He thought nothing of the long hours behind the counter simply because he knew he was doing it for them.
- As a child and teenager, she says, she spent a good deal of time behind the counter of Wilfrid's pharmacy.
- When not at the wheel of a racing car, Westley Barber is often found behind the counter of a fish and chip shop.
1By ordinary retail purchase, with no need for a prescription or licence. （不要处方或许可）直接购买的，非处方的 as modifier over-the-counter medicines 非处方药。 Example sentencesExamples - The drug became popular in Germany and because of the lack of acute toxicity it became available over the counter without prescription.
- We also collected data on over the counter medications purchased and visits made to private practitioners.
- Well, now they have just been approved by the FDA to be purchased over the counter so that someone can have one at home.
- Lotions and bath salts such as Aveeno bath can be purchased over the counter.
- A lot of people buy complementary medicines over the counter because they find they have a beneficial effect.
- Asking pharmacists to record details of over the counter purchases is anything but practical.
- Sudafed is also available over the counter, and other prescription products have made the switch as well.
- Patients derive enough benefit from over the counter cough medicines to purchase them in the first place and to keep returning for more.
- Another reason may be that drugs in the United States are available only on prescription or over the counter.
- When purchasing goods over the counter there are certain rules and protocols to be aware of, but as yet no rules of engagement have been established online.
- More than one in 10 children are at risk of having an adverse reaction to drugs bought over the counter, according to new research.
- Coming up, they are common cold medicines that anyone can buy over the counter.
- Drug companies have been switching successful prescription drugs over the counter for years.
- When should a drug be sold over the counter instead of by prescription only?
- Current prescription and over the counter drugs were recorded from containers at the participants' homes.
- There are several oral antihistamine medications available over the counter or on prescription.
- Drugs that will improve cognition in healthy people are in the pipeline, but it could be years before you can buy them over the counter.
- Is there any allergy medicine I can buy over the counter that won't affect my blood pressure or my prostate?
- Since then, many forms of birth control have become widely available by prescription and over the counter.
- They are advertised, marketed, and sold on the Internet, as well as over the counter in ordinary retail shops.
- 1.1(of share transactions) taking place outside the stock exchange system.
（证券买卖）不通过证券交易系统的 Example sentencesExamples - The company's stock is not listed on any stock exchange, but it is traded over the counter.
- After numerous downgradings, it now trades over the counter for a nickel a share.
under the counter (or table) (with reference to goods bought or sold) surreptitiously and typically illegally. （买卖）偷偷地；私下地；非法地 hard porn is legally banned, but still available under the counter 赤裸裸的淫秽作品是明令禁止的，但仍可私下买到。 as modifier an under-the-counter deal 非法交易。 Example sentencesExamples - Children in our country are exposed to many more sexual images in television ads - especially those selling beer - than in raunchy magazines sold under the counter.
- There is also a huge market for smuggled cigarettes with many legitimate retailers selling them under the counter.
- However, they are now being sold under the counter from street stalls in the city.
- Cigarettes would be sold only under the counter if plans being considered by Scottish ministers are implemented.
- The trouble now is that black supermarket, selling to all with cash under the table.
- It's all above board, like, all legit, no under the counter chuff.
- There is so much underhanded stuff, people are being paid off under the table.
- That is why all sorts of deals are going on under the table and is the second reason why fathers are not named.
- The decoder kit was available under the counter at all the hippest book stores, cafés, and nightclubs.
- ‘Well anything you can do for us over the counter, or under the counter would be great,’ appealed Paddy Bracken.
- The Chinatown store that sold them under the table recently went out of business.
- It was compared to a donkey's tail, frowned on as a symbol of Western decadence and sold only under the counter.
OriginMiddle English (in sense 2): from Old French conteor, from medieval Latin computatorium, from Latin computare (see compute). verb ˈkaʊntəˈkaʊn(t)ər [with object]1Speak or act in opposition to. 反对；反驳 the second argument is more difficult to counter 第二个论点更难反驳。 Example sentencesExamples - The primary objective going into a replay is to have learned enough to counter the opposition's strengths and take advantage of their weaknesses.
- So perverse, in fact, that it could only be regarded as a deliberate attempt to counter the opposite position.
- The party's caucus had held the closed-door meeting to discuss ways to counter the opposition lawmakers' plans.
- And we in the opposition must counter their vision and offer competing images of the future of the country.
- This means countering denialism as well.
- While countering these incentives is difficult, the authors note that public education and other initiatives have helped to dramatically reduce the incidence of smoking in recent decades.
- European and Arab opposition may be countered by possible strong support from Russia.
- It is indeed difficult to counter such cornering arguments.
- ‘We know it's not just about integration or sitting in the same classrooms with whites,’ Sellers counters.
- He made the remarks in a bid to counter the opposition's doubts that the use of the money has not been transparent, the report said.
- She has been designing and planning Naik's campaign material, ensuring that he is up-to-date on facts and figures to counter the opposition.
- A losing side sometimes falls into a trap where they tend to counter the opposition instead of dictating the game.
- It will be difficult to counter their political and economic hegemony!
- Perry answers that ideology must be countered with opposing ideology.
- The opposition rally sought to counter that impression, and organisers said they expected about 150,000 people to turn out.
- In order to counter any possible opposition, the government is attacking democratic rights and preparing a new police state.
- The idea is to keep the Prime Minister updated so that he is in a position to counter all possible queries from the opposition benches, informed sources said.
- Nothing can help hatred unless it is countered by the opposite.
- They speak about self-reliance and countering the invasion of a global economy by humble movement like the one involving the manufacture of toilet soap.
- The possibility of a five-fold increase in the projected cost came after big business insisted it move to counter public opposition.
- Any inputs by the pilot at launch create a dampening effect in the opposite direction to counter the excess pitch-rate change.
- What was interesting about that phenomenon was how incredibly difficult it was to counter the prevailing wisdom of the times.
Synonyms parry, hit back at, answer, respond to, retort to, contradict, negate - 1.1no object Respond to hostile speech or action.
反问；反驳；抵制；对抗 the possibility of the enemy being able to counter with similar missiles was remote Example sentencesExamples - Instead of competing with these fantasies, I counter with culinary theatrics from my surreal bag of tricks.
- Maybe not, but then they might reasonably counter with the question: is the Parthenon strictly necessary?
- Then the other party would counter with an initiative of its own, no less complex and no more electorally penetrative.
- The protesters counter with dinosaurs singing songs and a hoe-down.
- All he could do was quickly materialize his own sword to counter with.
- If it were just on private television, then I'd say, great, the best way to fight abuse of the freedom of speech, is to counter with better speech.
- They're very hard to counter with just high technology alone.
- To keep my idea alive, I need to counter with fixed targets of high value, so here's one, and here's another.
- Instead of giving you the three-day workweek you asked for, your boss might counter with a four-day week.
- Supporters counter with the charge that tuition from transit users already partially funds parking services on campus.
- Those of us who have fought for Inuit rights would counter with this: Can you eat your degrees when you are starving?
- I felt I had nothing to counter with - that is, until I had the 118 experience.
- Sly smirk returning, she countered readily, ‘It would be a pleasure, Serpent.’
- One must be able to withstand both the physical and mental attacks directed towards them, and be able to counter with their own attacks.
- This was the only airspeed that provided a predictable and constant level of yaw that I could counter with full rudder.
- That day, however, he didn't counter with some snappy nickname of his own.
- I counter with my stories of the hunting prowess of spiders and ants.
- Some may argue that flow and power don't go together, but I'd counter with that being a fallacy of the modern Big Move surf culture.
- The ex-managers counter with allegations of financial irregularities pointing out that he still lives in his old apartment with four other people.
- He steadied his swaying body and tried to counter with a lunge at Caleb.
- There was nothing you could say that she couldn't counter with a logical thought or a perfect comeback.
Synonyms parry, hit back at, answer, respond to, retort to, contradict, negate ward off, fend off, stave off, deflect, rebuff, rebut, repel, repulse, hold at bay combat, fight, attack, tackle, confront, stand up to, put up a fight against, oppose, resist, dispute, argue against counteract informal shoot full of holes, blow sky high formal gainsay rare controvert, confute, negative - 1.2Boxing no object Give a return blow while parrying.
〔拳击〕还击 he countered with a left hook 他用一记左勾拳还击。 Example sentencesExamples - I blocked that, and countered with a blow to the ribs.
- Con stayed on the defensive, blocking and parrying, and occasionally countering when he thought there was an opening.
- Booker hit a dropkick, and Flair countered with a low blow.
- He blocked it and countered, but that blow was also obstructed.
- Sometimes I might need to throw to make my opponent commit and counter off his punch.
- She diverted the move and countered with an uppercut that he avoided by tucking his chin in.
- Javion reflected the blow effortlessly, and countered with a swift left hand punch.
- You had one fighter aggressive and moving forward and the other fighter countering effectively but not throwing as many punches.
- He moved with impressive grace and skill, angling away from Hernandez's on rushes and countering effectively with uppercuts, straight right hands, and left hooks.
adverb ˈkaʊntəˈkaʊn(t)ər counter toIn the opposite direction or in opposition to. 相反地；对立地 his writing ran counter to the dominant trends of the decade Example sentencesExamples - Now the benefits of such spontaneous wireless networks are obvious, but hacking one together isn't easy, as it runs counter to how networks are put together.
- North Korea's attitude obviously runs counter to its commitment made in the joint statement.
- We conclude that the proposed East of Otley development is ill-conceived, runs counter to national planning policy and will fail to deliver the benefits claimed.
- Secondly it runs counter to all observation to assume that a child is incapable of independent religious belief.
- Our experience runs counter to that so we're happy to spend a little cash and to expend a good deal of energy doctoring our home to secure the best possible deal when we put the place on the market.
- Further, in several instances responses actually ran counter to the direction of selection.
- It also runs counter to the evidence of the nature of the relationship between Hitler and Himmler, who does not appear to have been a man likely to have practised a deception of this kind on his Fuhrer.
- However, the direction of these trade-price effects generally ran counter to our expectations.
- There is no authority on the implied licence argument and it may be criticised that it runs counter to the guidance of the House of Lords in the case of Sunningwell that a tolerated use may be as of right.
- We discussed the merits of ‘Vote for Me’, which I think is hard to beat for directness, but she felt it ran counter to the personal development ethos of the school.
- Such a picture of Julian, however, runs counter to what Julian herself says.
- But even if we accept this line of reasoning, it does not cover the cases where there is no serious probability that the choice of an action which went counter to the rule would become generally known.
- His analysis turned up another unexpected finding that also runs counter to the direction of the field.
- This public policy stand runs counter to what today's Texans say they want.
- Citizens of a nation choosing their own system of government runs counter to the option of imposing our values on others.
- The move to create an unofficial consul runs counter to Labour election campaign attacks on Nationalists for wanting to spend money on Scottish representation abroad.
- The el zar or Force of Estrangement (F.O.E.) is counter juxtaposed to the true God, the God of oneness.
- The wide rear haunches of the car create a muscular stance further emphasised by the rear window whose shape runs counter to that of most cars on the road in being distinctly tapered from top to bottom.
- So that sort of runs counter to what you're saying, doesn't it?
- Some members of the Board were reluctant to go counter to the policy direction of the Administration, and preferred negotiation, given that the Administration also deserved a voice in stabilization policy.
Synonyms against, in opposition to, contrary to, at variance with, in defiance of, in contravention of, contrarily, contrariwise, conversely against the tide, in the opposite direction, in the reverse direction, in the wrong direction
adjective ˈkaʊntəˈkaʊn(t)ər Responding to something of the same kind, especially in opposition. 反面的；对立的 after years of argument and counter argument there is no conclusive answer 经过几年的争论与反争论，这个问题尚无定论。参见COUNTER-。 See also counter- Example sentencesExamples - If people disagree with them, they should attack with counter arguments, not with suppression.
- ‘Bravenet’ seems to have come back to life so I have restored the hit counter here.
- They have not given us any counter argument to support their concerns.
- There is unquestionably some truth in that counter argument, which isn't voiced only by hawkers of Hollywood movies and TV shows.
- This result is, of course, counter intuitive. But there are a bunch of others as well.
- The counter argument, from the disobeyer's point of view, is that the social contract is a fiction as there is no historical evidence of any such agreement ever being entered into.
- But the compelling counter argument is that, although apparently arcane, it does reflect the reality at that given point in time.
- There are, however, juicy counter arguments to the highest value use theory, the most obvious being that we can't all grow grapes.
- Within this context, an alliance may also face limits due to the leverage of a counter alliance or an opposing state.
- At the same time, there are counter forces and arguments favoring decentralization of power.
- All of this counter argument is simply ignored here.
- A counter argument for this would be ‘Well, if they can do it to someone else, surely we can do it to them.’
- There are counter arguments that can be made on the side of the traditional 2-way clustered architectures.
- But, goes the counter argument, with so much porn available online now, mobility isn't such a critical advantage anymore.
- We were flying a range of different missions - defensive counter air, close air support, battlefield interdiction and strike.
- This raises considerable problems for counter insurgent strategy.
- However, one of his counter arguments states that trucks are often loaded at sites where there are no devices to measure the load.
- Once you know why it's a no-go, you can launch a thought-out counter argument explaining why you can handle a dog.
- [JIM LOBE:] I think when they're in opposition they create a counter government in hopes of becoming the next government.
- The counter arguments you've made in response to his wish you withdraw the ads are good ones, both legally and ethically.
- One option may be to launch a counter bid for Toll.
- Such views are clearly deeply held, but we feel that there are strong counter arguments.
- The next counter argument is linked to deep paranoia about the authorities' competence and good intentions.
- There are counter arguments, of course, but I don't think one can justify dismissing the comparisons with other countries as easily as he does.
- There is room for counter argument here, to be sure.
Synonyms opposing, opposed, opposite, contrary, adverse, conflicting, contradictory, contrasting, obverse, different, differing
noun ˈkaʊntəˈkaʊn(t)ər 1usually in singular A thing which opposes or prevents something else. 对立物；对立面；反作用 the stimulus to employers' organization was partly a counter to growing union power 对雇主组织的促进在一定程度上与工会力量的增长相对立。 Example sentencesExamples - The aim is to have a page full of items which will present a modest counter to the noise that will come from the Stoppers in London.
- Stanhope sees his openness as a counter to society's hypocrisy about such subjects.
- Here, they proclaimed, was the incarnation of the ideal of beauty who would provide a healthy counter to those skeletal harridans who were terrorising young girls towards a bony grave.
- The counter to this is that anything that hurts the other person is not desirable.
- In modern drama there is no such thing as the rational counter to wildfire popular beliefs.
- Scott Burgess has offered a counter to this column on depletion and it can be found here.
- Air America was formed specifically to be a counter to what many Liberals view as an overwhelming bias towards the Right in talk radio.
- Saturday's demonstration of moderate Muslims was presented as a peaceful counter to last week's aggressive gathering.
- The poem ends on a lovely reduced, calm note, a counter to the politicised madness of the 1960s.
- That quote, by the way, provides the best counter to outsourcing anxiety.
- The cheese was bright and a good counter to the deep character of the beets.
- The result is warm, humane and a compelling counter to the callous creed of Social Darwinists.
- Mr. Schaan also seems to believe that invoking the immeasurable is a sufficient counter to the concrete.
- Jans decided to begin staging the travel shows as a counter to dull presentations he'd witnessed.
- Learning this transforms a seemingly sorry life into one warmed by the kindness of strangers whose acts of altruism Mary sees as a counter to the teeming cruelties of the world, a reason to believe.
- The ultimate counter to the conservative movement is a progressive movement.
- It's full of good sense and a good counter to some of the sappy parenting advice that is out there all over the place.
- Syafi'i said he expected his team would make a viable counter to foreign efforts in bringing peace to Aceh.
- These imagined and real mothers provide an important counter to the negative images of black womanhood circulated in other media.
- The new book is in itself a counter to that outburst.
- We can expect an increase in enemy countermobility operations as a counter to our superiority in information and weapons technology.
- 1.1 An answer to an argument or criticism.
回应；反击 he anticipates an objection and plans his counter 他预料会有反对意见并准备回应。 - 1.2Boxing A blow given while parrying; a counterpunch.
〔拳击〕反击；回击；迎击 Example sentencesExamples - He was open to a counter and Chi connected with a great right to the body and a big left uppercut that sent Brodie down to the canvas and looking in pain.
- The right hook, as a counter or a lead, continued to be Cauthen's best weapon aside from dancing.
- Andi, being no fool at boxing, blocked the counter, and then went in for another blow, pulling back with her left arm.
- It is later revealed that a short, chopping right hand counter by Clay catches Liston squarely.
- His other concern is that if Lewis throws the lazy jab which he is prone to doing, a Tyson right hand counter could end matters there and then.
- The counter was brought in a sideways blow to the neck, that which Hyman just barely dodged by skipping back.
2The curved part of the stern of a ship projecting aft above the waterline. 艉突出体；外倾艉端 3Printing
The white space enclosed by a letter such as O or c. 〔印刷〕字谷
Phrasesgo (or hunt or run) counter Run or ride against the direction taken by a quarry. 迎着猎物奔跑的方向而上
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French contre, from Latin contra 'against', or directly from counter-. noun ˈkaʊntəˈkaʊn(t)ər The back part of a shoe or boot, enclosing the heel. （鞋或靴的）主跟，后帮 Example sentencesExamples - A strip of plastizote must be glued inside the counter of the shoe above the baby's heel to prevent the shoes from slipping off.
- Boots are constructed with a stiff piece of leather at the back of the heel, called the counter, and two or three layers of leather in the body of the boot.
- Also, make an effort to look for shoes with adequate heel counters since they'll help you maintain good heel position when the shoe contacts the ground.
- The other most important feature is the heel counter on my new shoe.
- To test this push down on the heel counter with your thumb.
- Footwear should have a soft insole, heel counter and Velcro straps.
- Rossignol's X6 boot now sports an upper cuff and heel counter and has the look of a suede hiking boot.
OriginMid 19th century: abbreviation of counterfort 'buttress', from French contrefort. nounˈkoun(t)ərˈkaʊn(t)ər 1A long flat-topped fixture in a store or bank across which business is conducted with customers. （商店或银行的）柜台 Example sentencesExamples - I'm the kind of person who gets kept waiting at counters in shops.
- The couple now hope to travel, read and relax away from the shop counter and the routine of a small business.
- Some supporters are also signing petitions displayed on the counters of shops and other businesses throughout the city centre.
- The level of business at post office counters is declining rapidly.
- Every time, a customer pushes open the glass door of a supermarket, or steps up to the wooden counter of a grocery shop, there is a chance for the seller to make big bucks.
- Having eaten these we were hard pressed to ignore the shop counter as we departed.
- While you go around various car accessories shop stalls and insurance counters, children'll have fun at painting and quiz contests.
- You can avoid these lines by not having anything that has to be checked or if you do not have to conduct any business at the ticket counter.
- I released a book into the wild, and it's on the counter at our new shop.
- One morning I went to the shop and a young girl served me at the counter.
- They also appreciate public support for collection boxes on many shop counters around the town.
- Mrs. Wallace stands at the counter of her pie shop.
- The cinema includes digital photographic services, cafe, refreshment counters, and decor that reflects the history and glamour of the art of film-making.
- I even love queuing at counters during the Christmas shopping frenzy and falling flat on my backside in the slippery snow.
- He told us that it had all begun when he used magnetic ink to encode his bank account number on the bottom line of a wad of blank deposit slips that banks provide at their counters.
- Shop assistants who no longer needed to serve behind counters would be available to circulate and answer questions about the price, size and quality of goods.
- Relatively little euro currency will be passed over bank counters, retail experts believe.
- But after more than three years in operation, the number of bags crossing shop counters - while still a fraction of the number used a few years ago - is creeping up.
- The shops would have deli counters, which offer high profit margins, serving hot food.
- Boyd had a daring, flamboyant style, and often jumped over bank counters in his lightning quick hold-ups.
- 1.1US A long flat-topped structure used for serving food and drinks in a cafeteria or bar.
（餐厅或酒吧的）柜台；服务台 Example sentencesExamples - It's not a gourmet feast, but it's cheap and you don't have to fetch the food yourself from a counter.
- You name what you want, buy the coupons, and then join the line before the serving counters.
- The food counter was stupefying in size and anything you'd possibly be inclined to have for breakfast was on show.
- You can often find more fat at the salad bar than you can at the fast food counter, Stumbo says.
- He got behind the serving counters and dished up turkey and mashed potatoes to the boys and he was just in seventh heaven.
- There are several different counters for food and they offer many options of daily special.
- Wendy pulled me out of my seat and dragged me, spluttering helplessly, towards the food counter.
- For instance, there will be seven food counters featuring a range of delicacies from raagi mudde and puliyogare to chaat and jolada roti.
- She was sitting quietly at the dingy linoleum counter drinking a glass of orange juice, the pale morning sun dancing prettily on her silky, long black hair.
- So whilst I start to make a record of my experiments I thought this would be an ideal way to share them with young couples who have probably never been taught how to cook the basics and probably eat from the fast food counters.
- Customers order at the counter, but the food is prepared to order.
- I drove to one of our favorite restaurants, placed the order, and stood at the counter drinking iced tea while I waited.
- We continued to wrestle all the way over to the food court counter.
- Maura laughed to herself silently as she made her way over to the serving counter, setting her plate down and pulling out a stool to sit on.
- The usual serving counters were not being used but the inactive buffet tables were now active.
- The revamp focused on areas of excellence such as the butchery department, fresh meat and fish department, the fruit and vegetable area as well as the deli food counter.
- The food court had a stripped down version of Biggy's Burger Barn, our favorite fast food slop house, as well as a panorama of ethnic fast food counters.
- The canteen has both a hot and cold food counter so anything from salads to beef stroganoff are on offer.
- After a year, a vacancy came up at the food service counter.
- An adult man plays guitar and sings in the background, while people order drinks from the faux counter in back.
- 1.2North American A countertop.
Example sentencesExamples - Just as I began searching on the counter for my keys Nick walked into the kitchen in just a pair of sweatpants, and said in a chipper tone.
- Clearing the counters of food items and shoving dishes into the sink, I ran a wet cloth over the various surfaces to remove crumbs and spills.
- It wasn't enough to make her forget those particular folders on the counter before she left, however.
- Chaz grabbed a stool and put his food on the counter.
- She set the food out on the counter in a straight line.
- Katrina tossed her bag in it, and grabbed a pen off the kitchen counter.
- I set my drink on the counter, it was already half empty.
- Her mother slammed the plates down on the countertop, wondrously not breaking them but making a mess as Megan's uneaten food spilled on the counter.
- Amanda started wiping the counter with a damp rag.
- Kristen said sadly putting her drink on the counter.
- Coming back to the real world, she started washing off the counters and tables in the cafe before the store officially opened for the day.
Synonyms worktop, work surface, worktable, table, bench, buffet, top, horizontal surface
2A small disk used as a place marker or for keeping the score in board games. （棋盘游戏中标志位置或记分的）小圆板 Example sentencesExamples - Players land ships at anchorages and venture inland in search of buried treasure by putting counters on numbered squares after throwing dice.
- Those work quite well as all sorts of counters and tokens.
- The game, played with counters and dice, is already proving a big hit - so much so that more copies are being produced to be distributed next year.
- According to the rules you need nothing more than your brain and a pack of cards, so it's a lot cheaper than the usual awful party games that cost £29.99 for a box, three dice and six counters.
- Most board games, especially war games, use cardboard counters or chits.
- Although chess, draughts, dice and gambling were forbidden, counters and dice were also found during the dig.
- It was used for making pendants, finger rings, playing counters, dice and even spindle whorls.
Synonyms token, chip, disc, jetton - 2.1 A token representing a coin.
筹码；代币 Example sentencesExamples - The name merels comes from the low Latin word merrelus, meaning a ‘token, counter or coin’.
3An apparatus used for counting. 计数器，计算器 the counter tells you how many pictures you have taken 计数器告诉你拍了多少张照片了。 Example sentencesExamples - The error counter is responsive to input signals and the feedback signals for generating error signals.
- For example, Geiger - Mueller counters, the familiar clicking boxes seen in the movies, were first sold in the 1930s.
- Maybe I had picked up the wrong gadget, and it was a calorie counter, primed to record a Big Mac and fries.
- Some sort of centrifugal device that only triggered the counter if it was activated by the centrifugal force of the drum turning.
- Really, I've never built anything much more computationally complicated than a counter of single-photons.
- In 1912, George Julius converted his invented mechanical vote counter into a mechanical totalisator.
- My hit counter started bleeding in the thousands following the election but seems to have recovered somewhat.
- Pennies are a completely useless coin, not able to be used in vending machines, toll roads and perhaps not least importantly, Las Vegas coin counters.
- All microswitches and counters were controlled by a central power source connected to a digital timer set to turn on one hour after sunset and turn off one hour before sunrise.
- The novelty of the electronic counter at the [Overbridge] traffic signal is yet to wear off, and the constables posted at the busy junction seem to be a more relaxed lot these days.
- So I installed a hit counter to see what was going on.
- It is suitable for a range of applications including timers, controllers, counters, test equipment or systems requiring an electronic display.
- When the voter wishes to make no further changes, he or she pulls a large lever, which registers the votes on a counter located at the back of the machine.
- The receiver simply synchronizes its counter to the value transmitted by the remote, and opens the garage door.
- Commerce has stated that it doesn't intend to make any money from the fee-free coin counters, which customers and non-customers are invited to use.
- My counter for this website records that the site has just received its ten thousandth visitor.
- So I went in with a calorie counter to analyze the last three day's meals.
- 3.1 A person who counts something, for example votes in an election.
计数者，计算者 Example sentencesExamples - Is he suggesting that, in some way, the vote counters have got it wrong?
- Hoppe said that vote counters decided to invalidate approximately 40 ballots, mostly due to multiple check marks.
- And vote counters should be nonpartisan public servants, not secretive corporations or party hacks.
- Members of the election committee, ballot counters and voting station officials have all been trained on their individual functions and are prepared for the election.
- The counters are casting votes, not counting votes.
- It could even make things worse, by adding more translation layers between the voters and the vote counters and preventing recounts.
- Also, if the ballot counters can't figure out who voted for who, like last time, having the pre-election polls on your side makes it easier for you to steal the election.
- In particular, it scales well as the number of available ballot counters is proportional to the number of voters.
- They claim vote counters used arbitrary standards in counting ballots.
- ‘What you're looking at here are the exit poll counters,’ says Quest.
- A team of 50 counters spent more than six hours checking and totalling the votes, as the candidates and their supporters looked on, while keeping an eye on the national election coverage.
- Independent proxy counters must verify votes, and each side can challenge.
- It was only a few hours after the general election results that the counters were again sifting through ballot papers.
- At the other end, you get computers to help the counters to count the votes.
- Vote counters in Florida are racing against time to complete a hand recount that could decide who is the next US president.
- With the touchscreen machines, however, the very counters of the votes can steal at will - and seem to be doing it widely.
- And tensions ran high as well, forcing a county judge there to warn vote counters and observers to be more civil toward each other.
- I voted today, and I would bet money that I am the only one in this county who voted for him; the vote counters probably think it was a joke ballot.
- You can see that the counters are examining these votes very carefully, and I must tell you that they look very tired to me, poor people sitting there.
- 3.2Physics An apparatus used for counting individual ionizing particles or events.
〔物理〕（计算电离子数量或电离次数的）计算器 Example sentencesExamples - The system also provides for designating the general purpose counters to monitor selected events in programs.
- In exchange for some frequency counters and plug-in modules for oscilloscopes, they got the power supply.
- A datalogger with an event counter can be used to record the readings.
- A counter in the clock tracks the time it takes for most of the atoms to make the shift.
- Today, a variety of instruments are in use for determining speed including electromagnetic sensors and engine revolution counters.
- The peaks themselves are detected by starting a counter at the first sample in the rectified waveform which is above the first threshold value.
- The status of these sensors is monitored by a counter that feeds information to a data logger.
- The ferrioxalate actinometer is a photon counter and is sensitive to wavelengths less than 450 nm.
- One was a particle counter installed on the second layer of the Whipple shield protecting the spacecraft's main body.
- The event is recognized as a macroscopic discontinuity in the counter.
- The microwave frequency was monitored with a frequency counter.
- A simple event counter can check how frequently a pump comes on.
PhrasesServing in a store or bank. 站柜台；（在商店或银行）当服务员 ask the young man behind the counter Example sentencesExamples - Marian has seen huge changes in the post office in her years behind the counter.
- They have witnessed many changes in the grocery trade during their time behind the counter.
- Unlike Western fast food joints, there just one spotty teen behind the counter.
- He thought nothing of the long hours behind the counter simply because he knew he was doing it for them.
- [Three,] A friend of the folks in the flat below who works behind the counter at a clothing store.
- You could wave a wad of twenties at the girls behind the counter but it would do no good for they have no facility to take cash.
- I told my friend Catherine behind the counter that I wanted to browse the magazines.
- A small, thin woman with a lined faced and dyed brown hair, also about sixty, stays behind the counter.
- We left the gallery and told the guy behind the counter how much we liked it and asked, are you the artist?
- Imagine our surprise then when we detected a strong Tralee accent behind the counter.
- As a child and teenager, she says, she spent a good deal of time behind the counter of Wilfrid's pharmacy.
- There were 2 women stood chatting to each other behind the counter as I approached to pay.
- The people behind the counter told us the shop had been there for one month.
- The girl behind the counter in the shop was shutting up for the long afternoon lull.
- In Horns the Baker, Rose Mulhulland, who works behind the counter, said she did not believe it was a good idea.
- They have two men working behind the counter; no matter what day of the week or time of day I go in, always the same two men.
- There were a couple of customers, and only one person[bloke] behind the counter, and the phone was ringing off the hook.
- Frustration is written all over the face of the man behind the counter.
- The screaming could be heard for miles, as could my laughter, and the laughter of the guys behind the counter.
- He was such a regular of the Flavas fried chicken shop that he greeted the confused man behind the counter like an old friend.
- When not at the wheel of a racing car, Westley Barber is often found behind the counter of a fish and chip shop.
1By ordinary retail purchase, with no need for a prescription or license. （不要处方或许可）直接购买的，非处方的 as modifier over-the-counter medicines 非处方药。 Example sentencesExamples - Is there any allergy medicine I can buy over the counter that won't affect my blood pressure or my prostate?
- There are several oral antihistamine medications available over the counter or on prescription.
- More than one in 10 children are at risk of having an adverse reaction to drugs bought over the counter, according to new research.
- Since then, many forms of birth control have become widely available by prescription and over the counter.
- Current prescription and over the counter drugs were recorded from containers at the participants' homes.
- Well, now they have just been approved by the FDA to be purchased over the counter so that someone can have one at home.
- Drug companies have been switching successful prescription drugs over the counter for years.
- When purchasing goods over the counter there are certain rules and protocols to be aware of, but as yet no rules of engagement have been established online.
- Lotions and bath salts such as Aveeno bath can be purchased over the counter.
- Drugs that will improve cognition in healthy people are in the pipeline, but it could be years before you can buy them over the counter.
- Asking pharmacists to record details of over the counter purchases is anything but practical.
- Coming up, they are common cold medicines that anyone can buy over the counter.
- Patients derive enough benefit from over the counter cough medicines to purchase them in the first place and to keep returning for more.
- They are advertised, marketed, and sold on the Internet, as well as over the counter in ordinary retail shops.
- The drug became popular in Germany and because of the lack of acute toxicity it became available over the counter without prescription.
- Sudafed is also available over the counter, and other prescription products have made the switch as well.
- Another reason may be that drugs in the United States are available only on prescription or over the counter.
- A lot of people buy complementary medicines over the counter because they find they have a beneficial effect.
- When should a drug be sold over the counter instead of by prescription only?
- We also collected data on over the counter medications purchased and visits made to private practitioners.
- 1.1(of share transactions) taking place outside the stock exchange system.
（证券买卖）不通过证券交易系统的 Example sentencesExamples - After numerous downgradings, it now trades over the counter for a nickel a share.
- The company's stock is not listed on any stock exchange, but it is traded over the counter.
under the counter (or table) (with reference to goods bought or sold) surreptitiously and typically illegally. （买卖）偷偷地；私下地；非法地 as modifier an under-the-counter deal 非法交易。 certain labs have been peddling this drug under the counter Example sentencesExamples - There is also a huge market for smuggled cigarettes with many legitimate retailers selling them under the counter.
- There is so much underhanded stuff, people are being paid off under the table.
- That is why all sorts of deals are going on under the table and is the second reason why fathers are not named.
- Cigarettes would be sold only under the counter if plans being considered by Scottish ministers are implemented.
- However, they are now being sold under the counter from street stalls in the city.
- ‘Well anything you can do for us over the counter, or under the counter would be great,’ appealed Paddy Bracken.
- The trouble now is that black supermarket, selling to all with cash under the table.
- It's all above board, like, all legit, no under the counter chuff.
- Children in our country are exposed to many more sexual images in television ads - especially those selling beer - than in raunchy magazines sold under the counter.
- It was compared to a donkey's tail, frowned on as a symbol of Western decadence and sold only under the counter.
- The Chinatown store that sold them under the table recently went out of business.
- The decoder kit was available under the counter at all the hippest book stores, cafés, and nightclubs.
OriginMiddle English (in counter (sense 2)): from Old French conteor, from medieval Latin computatorium, from Latin computare (see compute). verbˈkoun(t)ərˈkaʊn(t)ər [with object]1Speak or act in opposition to. 反对；反驳 the second argument is more difficult to counter 第二个论点更难反驳。 Example sentencesExamples - The opposition rally sought to counter that impression, and organisers said they expected about 150,000 people to turn out.
- The party's caucus had held the closed-door meeting to discuss ways to counter the opposition lawmakers' plans.
- It is indeed difficult to counter such cornering arguments.
- While countering these incentives is difficult, the authors note that public education and other initiatives have helped to dramatically reduce the incidence of smoking in recent decades.
- So perverse, in fact, that it could only be regarded as a deliberate attempt to counter the opposite position.
- He made the remarks in a bid to counter the opposition's doubts that the use of the money has not been transparent, the report said.
- A losing side sometimes falls into a trap where they tend to counter the opposition instead of dictating the game.
- This means countering denialism as well.
- The primary objective going into a replay is to have learned enough to counter the opposition's strengths and take advantage of their weaknesses.
- She has been designing and planning Naik's campaign material, ensuring that he is up-to-date on facts and figures to counter the opposition.
- Perry answers that ideology must be countered with opposing ideology.
- They speak about self-reliance and countering the invasion of a global economy by humble movement like the one involving the manufacture of toilet soap.
- ‘We know it's not just about integration or sitting in the same classrooms with whites,’ Sellers counters.
- What was interesting about that phenomenon was how incredibly difficult it was to counter the prevailing wisdom of the times.
- It will be difficult to counter their political and economic hegemony!
- And we in the opposition must counter their vision and offer competing images of the future of the country.
- Any inputs by the pilot at launch create a dampening effect in the opposite direction to counter the excess pitch-rate change.
- The idea is to keep the Prime Minister updated so that he is in a position to counter all possible queries from the opposition benches, informed sources said.
- In order to counter any possible opposition, the government is attacking democratic rights and preparing a new police state.
- The possibility of a five-fold increase in the projected cost came after big business insisted it move to counter public opposition.
- Nothing can help hatred unless it is countered by the opposite.
- European and Arab opposition may be countered by possible strong support from Russia.
Synonyms parry, hit back at, answer, respond to, retort to, contradict, negate - 1.1no object Respond to hostile speech or action.
反问；反驳；抵制；对抗 “What would you like me to do about it?” she countered “那你想让我怎么做？”她反问道。 Example sentencesExamples - Some may argue that flow and power don't go together, but I'd counter with that being a fallacy of the modern Big Move surf culture.
- The ex-managers counter with allegations of financial irregularities pointing out that he still lives in his old apartment with four other people.
- I felt I had nothing to counter with - that is, until I had the 118 experience.
- All he could do was quickly materialize his own sword to counter with.
- To keep my idea alive, I need to counter with fixed targets of high value, so here's one, and here's another.
- If it were just on private television, then I'd say, great, the best way to fight abuse of the freedom of speech, is to counter with better speech.
- They're very hard to counter with just high technology alone.
- Maybe not, but then they might reasonably counter with the question: is the Parthenon strictly necessary?
- There was nothing you could say that she couldn't counter with a logical thought or a perfect comeback.
- Instead of competing with these fantasies, I counter with culinary theatrics from my surreal bag of tricks.
- This was the only airspeed that provided a predictable and constant level of yaw that I could counter with full rudder.
- One must be able to withstand both the physical and mental attacks directed towards them, and be able to counter with their own attacks.
- I counter with my stories of the hunting prowess of spiders and ants.
- Instead of giving you the three-day workweek you asked for, your boss might counter with a four-day week.
- Then the other party would counter with an initiative of its own, no less complex and no more electorally penetrative.
- Those of us who have fought for Inuit rights would counter with this: Can you eat your degrees when you are starving?
- The protesters counter with dinosaurs singing songs and a hoe-down.
- Supporters counter with the charge that tuition from transit users already partially funds parking services on campus.
- Sly smirk returning, she countered readily, ‘It would be a pleasure, Serpent.’
- That day, however, he didn't counter with some snappy nickname of his own.
- He steadied his swaying body and tried to counter with a lunge at Caleb.
Synonyms parry, hit back at, answer, respond to, retort to, contradict, negate - 1.2Boxing no object Give a return blow while parrying.
〔拳击〕还击 he countered with a left hook 他用一记左勾拳还击。 Example sentencesExamples - Con stayed on the defensive, blocking and parrying, and occasionally countering when he thought there was an opening.
- He blocked it and countered, but that blow was also obstructed.
- You had one fighter aggressive and moving forward and the other fighter countering effectively but not throwing as many punches.
- Booker hit a dropkick, and Flair countered with a low blow.
- I blocked that, and countered with a blow to the ribs.
- She diverted the move and countered with an uppercut that he avoided by tucking his chin in.
- Sometimes I might need to throw to make my opponent commit and counter off his punch.
- Javion reflected the blow effortlessly, and countered with a swift left hand punch.
- He moved with impressive grace and skill, angling away from Hernandez's on rushes and countering effectively with uppercuts, straight right hands, and left hooks.
adverbˈkoun(t)ərˈkaʊn(t)ər counter toIn the opposite direction to or in conflict with. 相反地；对立地 some actions by the authorities ran counter to the call for leniency 当局的一些做法与要求宽大的呼声背道而驰。 Example sentencesExamples - Secondly it runs counter to all observation to assume that a child is incapable of independent religious belief.
- The wide rear haunches of the car create a muscular stance further emphasised by the rear window whose shape runs counter to that of most cars on the road in being distinctly tapered from top to bottom.
- This public policy stand runs counter to what today's Texans say they want.
- Some members of the Board were reluctant to go counter to the policy direction of the Administration, and preferred negotiation, given that the Administration also deserved a voice in stabilization policy.
- North Korea's attitude obviously runs counter to its commitment made in the joint statement.
- Such a picture of Julian, however, runs counter to what Julian herself says.
- There is no authority on the implied licence argument and it may be criticised that it runs counter to the guidance of the House of Lords in the case of Sunningwell that a tolerated use may be as of right.
- Our experience runs counter to that so we're happy to spend a little cash and to expend a good deal of energy doctoring our home to secure the best possible deal when we put the place on the market.
- So that sort of runs counter to what you're saying, doesn't it?
- We discussed the merits of ‘Vote for Me’, which I think is hard to beat for directness, but she felt it ran counter to the personal development ethos of the school.
- The move to create an unofficial consul runs counter to Labour election campaign attacks on Nationalists for wanting to spend money on Scottish representation abroad.
- It also runs counter to the evidence of the nature of the relationship between Hitler and Himmler, who does not appear to have been a man likely to have practised a deception of this kind on his Fuhrer.
- The el zar or Force of Estrangement (F.O.E.) is counter juxtaposed to the true God, the God of oneness.
- His analysis turned up another unexpected finding that also runs counter to the direction of the field.
- Further, in several instances responses actually ran counter to the direction of selection.
- But even if we accept this line of reasoning, it does not cover the cases where there is no serious probability that the choice of an action which went counter to the rule would become generally known.
- We conclude that the proposed East of Otley development is ill-conceived, runs counter to national planning policy and will fail to deliver the benefits claimed.
- Citizens of a nation choosing their own system of government runs counter to the option of imposing our values on others.
- Now the benefits of such spontaneous wireless networks are obvious, but hacking one together isn't easy, as it runs counter to how networks are put together.
- However, the direction of these trade-price effects generally ran counter to our expectations.
Synonyms against, in opposition to, contrary to, at variance with, in defiance of, in contravention of, contrarily, contrariwise, conversely
adjectiveˈkoun(t)ərˈkaʊn(t)ər Responding to something of the same kind, especially in opposition. 反面的；对立的 See also counter- Example sentencesExamples - But, goes the counter argument, with so much porn available online now, mobility isn't such a critical advantage anymore.
- The counter arguments you've made in response to his wish you withdraw the ads are good ones, both legally and ethically.
- There is unquestionably some truth in that counter argument, which isn't voiced only by hawkers of Hollywood movies and TV shows.
- There is room for counter argument here, to be sure.
- One option may be to launch a counter bid for Toll.
- There are counter arguments that can be made on the side of the traditional 2-way clustered architectures.
- [JIM LOBE:] I think when they're in opposition they create a counter government in hopes of becoming the next government.
- The counter argument, from the disobeyer's point of view, is that the social contract is a fiction as there is no historical evidence of any such agreement ever being entered into.
- At the same time, there are counter forces and arguments favoring decentralization of power.
- Once you know why it's a no-go, you can launch a thought-out counter argument explaining why you can handle a dog.
- A counter argument for this would be ‘Well, if they can do it to someone else, surely we can do it to them.’
- This result is, of course, counter intuitive. But there are a bunch of others as well.
- Such views are clearly deeply held, but we feel that there are strong counter arguments.
- However, one of his counter arguments states that trucks are often loaded at sites where there are no devices to measure the load.
- We were flying a range of different missions - defensive counter air, close air support, battlefield interdiction and strike.
- If people disagree with them, they should attack with counter arguments, not with suppression.
- There are counter arguments, of course, but I don't think one can justify dismissing the comparisons with other countries as easily as he does.
- But the compelling counter argument is that, although apparently arcane, it does reflect the reality at that given point in time.
- This raises considerable problems for counter insurgent strategy.
- The next counter argument is linked to deep paranoia about the authorities' competence and good intentions.
- There are, however, juicy counter arguments to the highest value use theory, the most obvious being that we can't all grow grapes.
- They have not given us any counter argument to support their concerns.
- ‘Bravenet’ seems to have come back to life so I have restored the hit counter here.
- All of this counter argument is simply ignored here.
- Within this context, an alliance may also face limits due to the leverage of a counter alliance or an opposing state.
Synonyms opposing, opposed, opposite, contrary, adverse, conflicting, contradictory, contrasting, obverse, different, differing
nounˈkoun(t)ərˈkaʊn(t)ər 1usually in singular A thing which opposes or prevents something else. 对立物；对立面；反作用 the stimulus to employers' organization was partly a counter to growing union power 对雇主组织的促进在一定程度上与工会力量的增长相对立。 Example sentencesExamples - Stanhope sees his openness as a counter to society's hypocrisy about such subjects.
- Mr. Schaan also seems to believe that invoking the immeasurable is a sufficient counter to the concrete.
- We can expect an increase in enemy countermobility operations as a counter to our superiority in information and weapons technology.
- Scott Burgess has offered a counter to this column on depletion and it can be found here.
- Air America was formed specifically to be a counter to what many Liberals view as an overwhelming bias towards the Right in talk radio.
- The ultimate counter to the conservative movement is a progressive movement.
- In modern drama there is no such thing as the rational counter to wildfire popular beliefs.
- That quote, by the way, provides the best counter to outsourcing anxiety.
- The new book is in itself a counter to that outburst.
- The result is warm, humane and a compelling counter to the callous creed of Social Darwinists.
- Jans decided to begin staging the travel shows as a counter to dull presentations he'd witnessed.
- The counter to this is that anything that hurts the other person is not desirable.
- The aim is to have a page full of items which will present a modest counter to the noise that will come from the Stoppers in London.
- Saturday's demonstration of moderate Muslims was presented as a peaceful counter to last week's aggressive gathering.
- It's full of good sense and a good counter to some of the sappy parenting advice that is out there all over the place.
- The poem ends on a lovely reduced, calm note, a counter to the politicised madness of the 1960s.
- Learning this transforms a seemingly sorry life into one warmed by the kindness of strangers whose acts of altruism Mary sees as a counter to the teeming cruelties of the world, a reason to believe.
- The cheese was bright and a good counter to the deep character of the beets.
- Syafi'i said he expected his team would make a viable counter to foreign efforts in bringing peace to Aceh.
- Here, they proclaimed, was the incarnation of the ideal of beauty who would provide a healthy counter to those skeletal harridans who were terrorising young girls towards a bony grave.
- These imagined and real mothers provide an important counter to the negative images of black womanhood circulated in other media.
- 1.1 An answer to an argument or criticism.
回应；反击 he anticipates an objection and plans his counter 他预料会有反对意见并准备回应。 - 1.2Boxing A blow given while parrying; a counterpunch.
〔拳击〕反击；回击；迎击 Example sentencesExamples - The right hook, as a counter or a lead, continued to be Cauthen's best weapon aside from dancing.
- The counter was brought in a sideways blow to the neck, that which Hyman just barely dodged by skipping back.
- His other concern is that if Lewis throws the lazy jab which he is prone to doing, a Tyson right hand counter could end matters there and then.
- He was open to a counter and Chi connected with a great right to the body and a big left uppercut that sent Brodie down to the canvas and looking in pain.
- Andi, being no fool at boxing, blocked the counter, and then went in for another blow, pulling back with her left arm.
- It is later revealed that a short, chopping right hand counter by Clay catches Liston squarely.
2The curved part of the stern of a ship projecting aft above the waterline. 艉突出体；外倾艉端 3Printing
The white space enclosed by a letter such as O or c. 〔印刷〕字谷
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French contre, from Latin contra ‘against’, or directly from counter-. nounˈkoun(t)ərˈkaʊn(t)ər The back part of a shoe or boot, enclosing the heel. （鞋或靴的）主跟，后帮 Example sentencesExamples - Rossignol's X6 boot now sports an upper cuff and heel counter and has the look of a suede hiking boot.
- Boots are constructed with a stiff piece of leather at the back of the heel, called the counter, and two or three layers of leather in the body of the boot.
- A strip of plastizote must be glued inside the counter of the shoe above the baby's heel to prevent the shoes from slipping off.
- Also, make an effort to look for shoes with adequate heel counters since they'll help you maintain good heel position when the shoe contacts the ground.
- Footwear should have a soft insole, heel counter and Velcro straps.
- To test this push down on the heel counter with your thumb.
- The other most important feature is the heel counter on my new shoe.
OriginMid 19th century: abbreviation of counterfort ‘buttress’, from French contrefort. |