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To others, it was the opposite of fun.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
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Whereas Pittsburgh has the opposite problem: plenty of nerds, but no rich people.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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The opposite of a wallet is a smartphone or an iPad.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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The general principle is simple: whenever the body has been in one position for a while, it is good to briefly stretch it in an opposite position.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
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While it may be common for university researchers to try their luck in the commercial world, there is very little traffic in the opposite direction.
出自-2010年12月阅读原文
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Researchers in Canada just published a study in the journal Psychological Science that says trying to get people to think more positively can actually have the opposite effect: it can simply highlight how unhappy they are.
出自-2010年6月阅读原文
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Speakers or English have a similar gesture through the hand may not be cupped and the fingers may be held more loosely, but for them the gesture means goodbye or go away, quite the opposite of the Colombian gesture.
出自-2014年6月听力原文
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they are actually in opposite directions.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
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They are in opposite directions
出自-2013年12月听力原文
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Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our wor
2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
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There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert sa
2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
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Whereas Pittsburgh has the opposite probleplenty of nerds, but no rich people.
2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
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The urge to explore space is just the opposite.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
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There is no essential difference between seemingly opposite opinions.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
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Are teenagers in particular, do you think, sheltered too much from contact with the opposite sex?
出自-2013年12月听力原文
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Well, I would like to find the parents who could shelter girls from the opposite sex if they live in Oxford
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I think that it's grossly overstated that one needs to have contact with the opposite sex right through the whole of life, in the classroom and outside the classroom and at all ages.
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They have ample opportunities to meet the opposite sex
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his experiments resulted in a new style that was almost exactly opposite the accepted technique of the time.
2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
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Overwork and exhaustion are the opposite of resilience and the bad habits we acquire when we're young only magnify when we hit the workforce.
2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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since the middle of the 20th century, though, things have turned the opposite way—these days, punishing hours at your desk, rather than days off, are seen as the mark of someone important.
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
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They are exactly alike, except that they have opposite electrical charges.
2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
Noun
1. two words that express opposing concepts;
"to him the opposite of gay was depressed"2. a relation of direct opposition;
"we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true"3. a contestant that you are matched against
4. something inverted in sequence or character or effect;
"when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse"Adjective
1. 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"2. of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem;
"opposite leaves"3. moving or facing away from each other;
"looking in opposite directions""they went in opposite directions"4. the other one of a complementary pair;
"the opposite sex""the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors"5. 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 Reade6. characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed;
"in diametric contradiction to his claims""diametrical (or opposite) points of view""opposite meanings""extreme and indefensible polar positions"Adverb
1. directly facing each other;
"the two photographs lay face-to-face on the table""lived all their lives in houses face-to-face across the street""they sat opposite at the table"