confrontation
confrontation 英 [ˌkɒnfrʌnˈteɪʃn] 美 [ˌkɑnfrənˈteɪʃn]
n. 对抗；对峙
名词复数:confrontations
- A confrontation is an angry disagreement. You might become so irritated about your upstairs neighbor's loud, awful music that a confrontation is unavoidable.
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- n. 对抗；对峙
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1. She wanted to avoid another confrontation with her father.
她想避免和父亲再次发生冲突。
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2. confrontation between employers and unions
资方与工会之间的对峙
- confrontation (n.) 1630s, "action of bringing two parties face to face," for examination and discovery of the truth, from Medieval Latin confrontationem (nominative confrontatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of confrontari, from assimilated form of Latin com "with, together" (see con-) + frontem (nominative frons) "forehead" (see front (n.)). International political sense is attested from 1963 and traces to the "Cuban missile crisis" of the previous year.
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