名詞 opposition:

1. the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with
   同義詞：resistance
2. the relation between opposed entities
   同義詞：oppositeness
3. the act of hostile groups opposing each other
   同義詞：confrontation
4. a contestant that you are matched against
   同義詞：opponent, opposite
5. a body of people united in opposing something
6. a direction opposite to another
7. an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
   同義詞：enemy, foe, foeman
8. the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected

1. The editor got his claws into the opposition in a vicious editorial.
   那個編輯在一篇社論中惡毒地攻擊了反對派。
2. The opposition dismissed the report as a whitewash.
   反對黨認(rèn)為這份報告過于修飾而不予理會。
3. We found ourselves in opposition to our friends on this question.
   我們發(fā)現(xiàn)在這個問題上我們與我們的朋友立場相 反。

op.po.si.tion

n.（名詞）

The act of opposing or resisting.
阻撓：反對或抵抗的行為
The condition of being in conflict; antagonism:
處于對立或矛盾的狀態(tài)，敵對：
例句：
.The history of men`s opposition to women`s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.(Virginia Woolf)
.男人反對婦女解放的歷史或許比解放本身更有趣.(弗吉尼亞·沃爾夫)

Placement opposite to or in contrast with another.
反對的立場：與另一物體相對或處于相對的情況
Something that serves as an obstacle.
障礙物
Often Opposition A political party or an organized group opposed to the group, party, or government in power.
常作 Opposition 反對黨，反對組織：反對執(zhí)政黨、團(tuán)體或政府的政治黨派或有組織的機(jī)構(gòu)
Astronomy
【天文學(xué)】
The position of two celestial bodies when their longitude differs by 80=, especially a configuration in which the earth lies on a straight line between the sun and a superior planet or the moon.
兩星體以80°相對的位置：兩個星體在天空中處于80°的直線位置，尤指當(dāng)?shù)厍蚝屯庑行腔蛟虑虺梢恢本€的位置
The position of the superior planet or the moon in this configuration.
（此種情況下）外行星的位置，月球的位置
Logic The relation existing between two propositions having an identical subject and predicate but differing in quantity, quality, or both.
【邏輯學(xué)】 對向：邏輯學(xué)中出現(xiàn)的在兩物體之間的關(guān)系，兩物體同主題但質(zhì)量不同
Linguistics Contrast in a language between two phonemes or other linguistically important elements.
【語言學(xué)】 元素的相對：語言中兩個音素的相對或其它重要的語素的相對

【引伸】
op.posi.tional
adj.（形容詞）