opponent
opponent
noun
语源
noun
- someone who competes with or fights another in a contest, game, or argument；a rival or adversary
对手；敌手
he beat his Republican opponent by a landslide margin.
他以绝对多数击败了他的共和党对手。
■a person who disagrees with or resists a proposal or practice
反对者
an opponent of the economic reforms.
经济改革的反对者。
语源
- late 16th cent. (denoting a person opening an academic debate by proposing objections to a philosophical or religious thesis): from Latin opponent- 'setting against', from the verb opponere, from ob- 'against' + ponere 'place'
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