释义 |
antipode /ˈantɪpəʊd /nounThe direct opposite of something: the pole and its antipode...- Such a perfect, artificial cosmos of art is like an antipode to the life on the streets here, where everything is totally contradictory - where old and new, traditional and modern, poor and rich vehemently clash all day.
- His antipode in the Greek pantheon is Kairos, ‘the fortunate moment.’
- Architecturally, DCA complex was an antipode of a typical 1970s Dundee structure.
OriginEarly 17th century: back-formation from antipodes. |