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单词 antagonism
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Definition of antagonism in English:

antagonism

noun anˈtaɡ(ə)nɪz(ə)mænˈtæɡəˌnɪzəm
mass noun
  • Active hostility or opposition.

    敌意;敌对;对立;对抗

    the antagonism between them

    他们之间的对立。

    his antagonism towards the local people

    他对当地人的敌意。

    count noun petty antagonisms and jealousies

    琐细的对立和妒忌。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Open public antagonism towards farmers will not help them, their communities or the rest of us.
    • I am very sorry that some contributors to your letters page seem to be trying to encourage antagonism between different areas of the city hit by the floods.
    • The year-end election is likely to revive antagonism between the government and the opposition.
    • For on a national level, New Labour has long since abandoned any Old Labour-style antagonism towards private education.
    • Both relationships are made difficult by a shared awareness of a history of mutual antagonism between ethnic groups.
    • Why, though, if truth is so wonderful, and so obtainable, is there so much antagonism toward science?
    • The petty point-scoring highlights the deepening antagonism between the rivals.
    • In 1959 he became professor, by which time he had welcomed in the new NHS and done much to make his colleagues overcome their antagonism towards it.
    • In the early nineteenth century, the old British antagonism between Celts and Saxons was put on a biological footing.
    • This suddenly changed the long-standing political antagonism between the East and the West.
    • The legal system can seek to limit family members' antagonism towards one another, particularly when relationships are ending.
    • And there often is an assumption that it is about hostility or antagonism between men and women.
    • The symbolic separation and opposition aside, the personal antagonism between the two men is not imagined by the media.
    • Our natural state is antagonism towards authority and a general feeling of disenchantment.
    • The antagonism between races in the city is nothing compared with the fear of it felt by those outside.
    • This perception has caused resentment, antagonism, and opposition to the West.
    • Very often it is our discrimination against them that helps nurture their antagonism towards us.
    • What lies behind all this, I believe, is a deep sense of the fundamental antagonism between the government and the people it governs.
    • He said antagonism between the French teenagers and local youths had built up over the weekend, with a number of verbal exchanges.
    • So much of the way people behave in negotiations causes anger, bitterness, hostility or antagonism.
    Synonyms
    hostility, friction, enmity, antipathy, animus, opposition, dissension, rivalry, feud, conflict, discord, contention
    acrimony, bitterness, rancour, resentment, aversion, dislike, ill feeling, bad feeling, ill will, bad blood, hatred, hate, loathing, detestation, abhorrence, odium
    malice, spite, spitefulness, venom, malevolence, malignity
    grudges, grievances
    British informal needle
    archaic disrelish

Origin

Early 19th century: from French antagonisme, from Greek antagōnizesthai 'struggle against' (see antagonist).

Definition of antagonism in US English:

antagonism

nounanˈtaɡəˌnizəmænˈtæɡəˌnɪzəm
  • 1Active hostility or opposition.

    敌意;敌对;对立;对抗

    the antagonism between them

    他们之间的对立。

    his antagonism toward the local people

    他对当地人的敌意。

    petty antagonisms and jealousies

    琐细的对立和妒忌。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Our natural state is antagonism towards authority and a general feeling of disenchantment.
    • For on a national level, New Labour has long since abandoned any Old Labour-style antagonism towards private education.
    • Very often it is our discrimination against them that helps nurture their antagonism towards us.
    • He said antagonism between the French teenagers and local youths had built up over the weekend, with a number of verbal exchanges.
    • So much of the way people behave in negotiations causes anger, bitterness, hostility or antagonism.
    • What lies behind all this, I believe, is a deep sense of the fundamental antagonism between the government and the people it governs.
    • In 1959 he became professor, by which time he had welcomed in the new NHS and done much to make his colleagues overcome their antagonism towards it.
    • This suddenly changed the long-standing political antagonism between the East and the West.
    • In the early nineteenth century, the old British antagonism between Celts and Saxons was put on a biological footing.
    • Both relationships are made difficult by a shared awareness of a history of mutual antagonism between ethnic groups.
    • The legal system can seek to limit family members' antagonism towards one another, particularly when relationships are ending.
    • This perception has caused resentment, antagonism, and opposition to the West.
    • The symbolic separation and opposition aside, the personal antagonism between the two men is not imagined by the media.
    • Open public antagonism towards farmers will not help them, their communities or the rest of us.
    • I am very sorry that some contributors to your letters page seem to be trying to encourage antagonism between different areas of the city hit by the floods.
    • The antagonism between races in the city is nothing compared with the fear of it felt by those outside.
    • The petty point-scoring highlights the deepening antagonism between the rivals.
    • And there often is an assumption that it is about hostility or antagonism between men and women.
    • The year-end election is likely to revive antagonism between the government and the opposition.
    • Why, though, if truth is so wonderful, and so obtainable, is there so much antagonism toward science?
    Synonyms
    hostility, friction, enmity, antipathy, animus, opposition, dissension, rivalry, feud, conflict, discord, contention
    1. 1.1Biochemistry Inhibition of or interference with the action of one substance or organism by another.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This concept helps link mutualism to antagonisms such as herbivory, predation, and parasitism, interactions defined largely by the existence of costs.
      • As in biochemistry, antagonism in pharmacology is not restricted to competition.
      • In order to understand the structural basis for pterin antagonism, selected derivatives were docked into the NOS pterin binding cavity.

Origin

Early 19th century: from French antagonisme, from Greek antagōnizesthai ‘struggle against’ (see antagonist).

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