核心畫面

Something is pushing, and something else is pushing back. That is the whole word. What does the pushing back can be a person refusing an order, a country's fighters, a body fighting infection, water against a hull, or a wire against a current — but the shape is always the same: force meeting counter-force.

可以想成:一邊在推,另一邊頂著不讓它過。整個字就是這個畫面。頂回去的可以是不肯配合的人、拿起武器的百姓、對抗病菌的身更多收起可以想成:一邊在推,另一邊頂著不讓它過。整個字就是這個畫面。頂回去的可以是不肯配合的人、拿起武器的百姓、對抗病菌的身體、水頂著船身、電線頂著電流——形式差很多,但結構都一樣:一股力量遇上另一股相反的力量。所以中文有時是「抵抗」,有時是「阻力」,有時是「抵抗力」,看的是誰在推、誰在頂。

From the picture

身體的抵抗力

推的一方變成病菌或惡劣環境,頂回去的是身體本身;這裡沒有人的意志,是生理上的防守能力。

body's defense · noun · C2

The natural power of a body, animal, or plant to fight off illness or hard conditions.

抵抗力

物理上的阻力

同樣是頂回去,但兩邊都沒有生命:空氣頂著車、水頂著船、材料頂著電流,純粹是物質之間的對抗。

drag, air resistance · noun · C2

The way wind, air, or water pushes against a moving thing and slows it down.

阻力

Also in this word

fight back · noun · C2

The act of fighting back against someone who is attacking you.

抵抗 / 反抗

refusal to change · noun · C2

A refusal to accept new ideas or changes, or the act of trying to stop them.

抗拒 / 反對

resistance group · noun · C2

A secret group that works together to fight against an enemy controlling their country.

反抗組織

原始詞典資料5 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。

resistancenoun/ɹɪˈzɪstəns/

  • 1

    The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

    • widespread resistance to the new urban development plans
    • the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics
  • 2

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA force that tends to oppose motion.

  • 3

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsElectrical resistance.

  • 4

    datedbusinesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA resistor.

    • In our study of simple electrical circuits, we have considered a single source of E.M.F. for each individual circuit but we have learned that any number of resistances may be connected in parallel […]
  • 5

    An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.

    • Alliance forces are stretched too thin right now to attempt to liberate the colony, but we've been doing what we can to covertly aid the local resistance.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。