a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
对立的人(或事);人(或事物)的对立面
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love is the antithesis of selfishness. 爱与自私是对立的。
a contrast or opposition between two things
(两个事物间的)对照,对应
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the antithesis between occult and rational mentalities. 超自然心态和理性心态之间的对立。
[mass noun]a rhetorical or literary device in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words which are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other
(修辞手法)对偶。
[mass noun](in Hegelian philosophy)the negation of the thesis as the second stage in the process of dialectical reasoning
(黑格尔哲学用语)反题。比较<Bold>SYNTHESIS</Bold>.
"late Middle English (originally denoting the substitution of one grammatical case for another): from late Latin, from Greek