Opposite

(adj.) of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem; 'opposite leaves' .

(adj.) altogether different in nature or quality or significance; 'the medicine's effect was opposite to that intended'; 'it is said that opposite characters make a union happiest'- Charles Reade .

(adj.) the other one of a complementary pair; 'the opposite sex'; 'the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors' .

(adj.) being directly across from each other; facing; 'And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm'- Longfellow; 'we lived on opposite sides of the street'; 'at opposite poles' .

(adj.) moving or facing away from each other; 'looking in opposite directions'; 'they went in opposite directions' .

手打:撒迪厄斯

• I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Then the wise and good will not desire to gain more than his like, but more than his unlike and opposite? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The swans had gone out on to the opposite bank, the reeds smelled sweet, a faint breeze touched the skin. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• At the foot of the throne these two parties separated and halted, facing each other at opposite sides of the aisle. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• She seated herself beside her uncle opposite to Will, and was evidently preoccupied with something that made her almost unmindful of him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• By the living Lord it flashed upon me, as I sat opposite to her at the table and saw her with a knife in her hand, that she had done it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Shut into the drawing-room, the pair took seats, each in an arm-chair, placed opposite, a few yards between them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He rose, as he spoke, from the chair in which he had been sitting opposite to me up to this time. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They took some one else out just before we came opposite. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I had hardly walked half-way towards the house when Sir Percival, who had withdrawn in the opposite direction, suddenly stopped and called me back. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• A dozen lesser therns confronted us from a large doorway at the opposite end of the storeroom from which we had entered. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Confused, Mr. Huskisson tried to go around the open door of the carriage, which projected over the opposite rail. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Anselmo found Robert Jordan sitting at the plank table inside the cave with Pablo opposite him. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But if, instead of being the personification of reserve and discretion, she were something quite opposite, I should not fear her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I handed him my pouch, and he seated himself opposite to me and smoked for some time in silence. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• There is a kind of professional reconciler of opposites who likes to lump all the prominent rebels together and refer to them affectionately as us radicals. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There were two opposites, his will and the resistant Matter of the earth. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Yes, he said, they are opposites. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And to the class of opposites belong assent and dissent, desire and avoidance. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The opposites, once more, to thoughtful action are routine and capricious behavior. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Meg was Amy's confidant and monitor, and by some strange attraction of opposites Jo was gentle Beth's. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• All these qualities, in him usually so light and careless, she felt to be inseparable from some touch of their opposites in her own breast. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It is a tick-tack, tick-tack, a dance of opposites. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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