animosity towards/against• Like the woman who wears it? wondered Cassie, surprised at the strength of her animosity towards Bella Latimer.• Whitlock had found his animosity towards Mobuto beginning to waver as the day progressed.• But the travellers who'd come to Castlemorton from all over the country, couldn't understand the local animosity towards them.• There seems to be no animosity towardsforeigners on the part of the ordinarycitizen.• Mr Adams's brother James said the family hold no animosity towards anyone over David's death.• I spent all afternoon full of animosity towards him - and then he died in that freakaccident.• There was thus little in the second reign to stir up renewedanimosity towards the Woodvilles.
Originanimosity
(1400-1500)Late Latinanimositas, from Latinanimosus“full of spirit”, from animus; → ANIMUS
ADJECTIVE | VERB + ANIMOSITY | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤personal個人怨恨➤long-standing長期的怨恨VERB + ANIMOSITY➤bear, feel, have, hold (especially NAmE) 懷有仇恨;感覺怨恨;有怨恨◇Despite everything, she bore her former boss no animosity.不管怎樣,她對她以前的老闆並沒有懷恨在心。➤arouse, create, stir up引起/產生/煽動仇恨PREPOSITION➤without animosity沒有仇恨◇They managed to discuss their past disagreements without animosity.他們能夠不計前嫌地討論過去的分歧。➤animosity between⋯之間的仇恨◇The two rivals for party leadership insist that there is no animosity between them.兩名競爭政黨領袖一職的對手堅持說他們之間沒有仇恨。➤animosity towards/toward對⋯的仇恨◇I feel no animosity towards / toward the military.我對軍方沒有仇恨。