adversary
音标：
英音/ ˈædvəsəri / 美音/ ˈædvərseri /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
“This was a moment when both our allies and our adversaries were watching to see if we would deliver for the people of Ukraine in their moment of need.”
“此时此刻，我们的盟友和对手都在注视着我们是否能够在乌克兰人民需要的时候为他们提供帮助。”
—New York Times
The ruling used broad powers created by the Trump administration to ban or restrict transactions between US firms and technology companies from “foreign adversary” nations like Russia and China.
该裁决利用特朗普政府设立的广泛权力来禁止或限制美国公司与俄罗斯和中国等“外国对手”国家的科技公司之间的交易。
—BBC
Mr. Biden’s decision appears to mark the first time that an American president has authorized limited military attacks on artillery, missile bases and command centers inside the borders of a nuclear-armed adversary.
拜登的决定似乎标志着美国总统首次授权对拥有核武器的对手境内的炮兵、导弹基地和指挥中心进行有限的军事攻击。
—New York Times
基本释意：
noun
someone who offers opposition
敌手，对手
同义词：
antagonist,opponent,opposer,resister
短释义：
Adversary is related to the word adverse, meaning “against or contrary” —so think of an adversary as someone whom you are fighting against. If you’re the undefeated chess champion, you have bested every single one of your adversaries. The word adversary is from Middle English adversarie, from Latin adversarius, from adversus “against.”
对手是敌人或反对他人的人。在网球比赛中，你与对手站在网对面。
长释义：
Adversary is related to the word adverse, meaning “against or contrary” —so think of an adversary as someone whom you are fighting against. If you’re the undefeated chess champion, you have bested every single one of your adversaries. The word adversary is from Middle English adversarie, from Latin adversarius, from adversus “against.”
对手与“adverse”这个词有关，意思是“反对或相反”——所以把对手想象成你正在对抗的人。如果您是不败的国际象棋冠军，那么您已经击败了每一位对手。 “adversary”一词源自中古英语 adversarie，源自拉丁语 adversarius，源自 adversus“反对”。
文学例句：
The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary’s tragic flaw.
公爵夫人开始研究安妮特，很快就发现了她对手的悲剧性缺陷。
—The Princess Bride by William Goldman
“Exactly. The perfect creature to flush out our adversary.”
“确切地。这是消灭我们对手的完美生物。”
—Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
This new adversary possessed the gift she’d always craved, and up against it, she was nothing.
这个新对手拥有她一直渴望的天赋，但在它面前，她什么都不是。
—Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
词源：
adversary (n.)”unfriendly opponent, enemy” (originally especially of Satan as the enemy of mankind), mid-14c., aduersere, from Anglo-French adverser (13c.), Old French adversarie (12c., Modern French adversaire) “hostile opponent, enemy,” or directly from Latin adversarius “an opponent, rival, enemy,” noun use of adjective meaning “opposite, hostile, contrary,” literally “turned toward one,” from adversus “turned against, turned toward, fronting, facing,” figuratively “hostile, adverse, unfavorable,” past participle of advertere “to turn toward,” from ad “to” (see ad-) + vertere “to turn, turn back, be turned; convert, transform, translate; be changed” (see versus). The Latin word is glossed in Old English by wiðerbroca.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
adversary (n.)“不友好的对手、敌人”（最初特指撒旦作为人类的敌人），14世纪中期，aduersere，来自英法 adversaire (13世纪)，古法语 adversarie (12世纪，现代法语 adversaire) ）“敌对的对手、敌人”，或直接源自拉丁语 adversarius“对手、对手、敌人”，名词使用形容词，意思是“相反、敌对、相反”，字面意思是“转向一个”，源自 adversus“转向反对、转向” ，面向，面对，”比喻“敌对的，不利的，不利的”，advertere的过去分词“转向”，来自ad“到”（参见ad-）+vertere“转向，转向，转向，转变； ，翻译；改变”（参见对比）。这个拉丁词由 wiðerbroca 在古英语中进行了注释。相关条目及更多内容
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