| 单词 | backlash |
| 释义 | backlash (once / 4064 pages) nv When many people react against something in the same way, you can call it a backlash. A backlash against government policies can result in mass protests. When people get angry enough about something — or just tired of hearing about it — the result can be a backlash. An influx of refugees to a city can cause a backlash against immigration, and the popularity of a particular style of music might eventually cause a backlash against it. A true backlash involves many people acting together. The original, 1815 meaning of backlash was "recoil between parts of a machine." It wasn't until the 1950's that the figurative meaning came into use. WORD FAMILYbacklash: backlashed, backlashes, backlashing USAGE EXAMPLESHowever the backlash prompted him to defend the proposal in a Facebook post last week. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Journalists who tried to investigate Ms. Choi suffered a vicious official backlash. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The Occupy movement was a backlash to the financial crisis. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) 1n a movement back from an impact Syn|Hypo|Hyper rebound, recoil, repercussion bounce, bouncing rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) resilience, resiliencyan occurrence of rebounding or springing back carom, ricocheta glancing rebound motion, movement a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something 2n an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence there was a backlash of intolerance Hypo|Hyper white backlash, whitelash backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances reaction doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like 3v come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect Syn|Hyper backfire, recoil come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place come to pass |
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