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An adversary is a person, a team, or a country you are fighting or competing against.
An adversary adversary（對手）is指的是you are fighting or competing against你正在對抗或競爭的a person, a team, or a country一個人、一個團隊或一個國家
It is more formal, and a little more serious, than opponent. In sport, most people say opponent; adversary makes the other side sound more like an enemy, even when the fight is only a match or a court case.
It is more formal它比較正式and a little more serious也嚴肅一點than opponent比起opponent(對手)In sport在運動裡most people say opponent大部分人會說opponentadversary而adversarymakes the other side sound more like an enemy會讓對方聽起來更像敵人even when the fight is only a match or a court case即使那場對抗只是一場比賽或一件官司
You can respect an adversary. The word does not always mean they are wicked — only that they stand across from you.
You can respect an adversary你可以尊敬一個adversaryThe word does not always mean they are wicked這個詞不代表對方是邪惡的only that they stand across from you只是說他們站在你的對立面
Though actually, older religious English also uses “the Adversary,” with a capital A, as a name for Satan, the . That is a special Bible use, not the everyday one.
Though actually不過older religious English also uses "the Adversary,"較早的宗教英語也用大寫A的『the Adversary』with a capital A, as a name for Satan, the accuser當作撒旦、控告者的稱號That is a special Bible use這是聖經裡的特殊用法not the everyday one不是日常用法
Do not mix this with adversity: an adversary is someone; adversity is hard times.
Do not mix this with adversity不要把這個詞和adversity搞混an adversary is someone adversary指的是人adversity is hard times而adversity指的是困境
組成From Middle English adversarie, from Anglo-Norman aversaire and Old French aversier, aversaire (French adversaire), from Latin adversārius, from adversus (“turned toward”). By the look of the English pieces: adverse + -ary. The biblical name is a different story: Satan comes from Hebrew שָׂטָן (Śāṭān), “adversary, accuser.”
同家族的字
- adversethe stem in the surface reading adverse + -ary; same Latin adversus
- adversarialthe adjective: like an adversary, or set up as a fight between sides
- adversitysame Latin root, but the meaning is hardship, not a person
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Adversaryname
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ChristianityThe Devil; Satan.
- Yahweh′s turning Gog around, putting hooks in his jaws, and bringing him out from the remotest parts of the north (Ezek. 38:4-6) is now interpreted as the release of the Adversary from prison.
adversarynoun/ˈæd.və.sɛɹi/
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A person, group, or thing that opposes or attacks another person or group; an opponent or rival.
- He prepared to fight his adversary.
- In the political drama that Donald Trump has created in Washington, he could not have dreamed up a more formidable adversary than James Comey.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。