opposition

名词 opposition:

1. the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
   同义词：resistance
2. the relation between opposed entities
   同义词：oppositeness
3. the act of hostile groups opposing each other
   同义词：confrontation
4. a contestant that you are matched against
   同义词：opponent, opposite
5. a body of people united in opposing something
6. a direction opposite to another
7. an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
   同义词：enemy, foe, foeman
8. the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected

1. The editor got his claws into the opposition in a vicious editorial.
   那个编辑在一篇社论中恶毒地攻击了反对派。
2. The opposition dismissed the report as a whitewash.
   反对党认为这份报告过于修饰而不予理会。
3. We found ourselves in opposition to our friends on this question.
   我们发现在这个问题上我们与我们的朋友立场相 反。

op.po.si.tion

n.（名词）

The act of opposing or resisting.
阻挠：反对或抵抗的行为
The condition of being in conflict; antagonism:
处于对立或矛盾的状态，敌对：
例句：
.The history of men`s opposition to women`s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.(Virginia Woolf)
.男人反对妇女解放的历史或许比解放本身更有趣.(弗吉尼亚·沃尔夫)

Placement opposite to or in contrast with another.
反对的立场：与另一物体相对或处于相对的情况
Something that serves as an obstacle.
障碍物
Often Opposition A political party or an organized group opposed to the group, party, or government in power.
常作 Opposition 反对党，反对组织：反对执政党、团体或政府的政治党派或有组织的机构
Astronomy
【天文学】
The position of two celestial bodies when their longitude differs by 80=, especially a configuration in which the earth lies on a straight line between the sun and a superior planet or the moon.
两星体以80°相对的位置：两个星体在天空中处于80°的直线位置，尤指当地球和外行星或月球成一直线的位置
The position of the superior planet or the moon in this configuration.
（此种情况下）外行星的位置，月球的位置
Logic The relation existing between two propositions having an identical subject and predicate but differing in quantity, quality, or both.
【逻辑学】 对向：逻辑学中出现的在两物体之间的关系，两物体同主题但质量不同
Linguistics Contrast in a language between two phonemes or other linguistically important elements.
【语言学】 元素的相对：语言中两个音素的相对或其它重要的语素的相对

【引伸】
op.posi.tional
adj.（形容词）