hostility
hostility 英 [hɒˈstɪləti] 美 [hɑˈstɪləti]
n. 敌意；战争行动
名词复数:hostilities
- Hostility is the state of ill will and bad feeling. If a teacher embarrasses you in front of the whole class, you will probably regard him or her with hostility for the remainder of the school year.
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- n. 敌意；战争行动
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1. There was open hostility between the two schools.
这两所学校公开相互敌对。
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2. feelings of hostility towards people from other backgrounds
对其他不同背景的人的敌视情绪
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3. public hostility to nuclear power
公众对核动力的愤然反对
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4. a cessation of hostilities (= an end to fighting)
战争停止
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5. the start/outbreak of hostilities between the two sides
双方之间敌对行为的爆发
- hostility (n.) early 15c., "hostile action," from Middle French hostilité "enmity" (15c.), or directly from Late Latin hostilitatem (nominative hostilitas) "enmity," from Latin hostilis "inimical," from hostis, in earlier use "a stranger, foreigner," in classical use "an enemy," from PIE root *ghos-ti- "stranger, guest, host." Hostilities in the sense of "warfare" attested from 1610s.
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