counterattraction

n. 反引力

发音

UK /ˌkaʊntəɹəˈtɹakʃən/

词形变化

counterattractions 复数 counterattractions

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Something that vies for the attention of a person or thing in competition with something else; a rival for preference.

    1956, January 31ˢᵗ: Alan Alexander Milne; quoted in:

    1988: James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, № 4,393 (Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

attraction

词源

From counter- + attraction.

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