antagonism to/towards• This causes antagonism towards you faster than almost anything else.• To that he brought a class-conscious antagonism towards the relics and treasures of the old élites.• There is no visiblegrindingpoverty and no antagonism towardstourists.• Now that it is no longer traitorous, popularantagonism towards the Catholic church has become open.• Anyone with half an eye could see Susan's antagonism towards her.• This led to sharpantagonism towards the full launch of assessment at 7 in 1991.• In the end, however, the antagonism towardsnewcomers is not a rationally calculatedresponse.• Today, antagonism towards Birmingham remains as strong as when Jane Austen wrote the words in Emma in 1816.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + ANTAGONISM | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤great, strong (especially NAmE) 強烈的敵意▸➤mutual相互的對立▸➤class, personal, racial階級對立;個人的對抗;種族對立VERB + ANTAGONISM➤feel, have懷有敵意;有敵意◇She felt nothing but antagonism towards / toward her boss.她對老闆只懷有敵意。◇He seems to have an antagonism to the local people.他似乎對當地人懷有敵對情緒。➤express表現出對立情緒▸➤arouse, cause, create, lead to引起/引發/產生/激起對立情緒◇The new rules will create a lot of antagonism.新規定將激起很大的對立情緒。PREPOSITION➤antagonism between⋯之間的對抗◇the antagonism between the two brothers兩兄弟之間的對抗➤antagonism to對⋯的敵意◇an attitude of antagonism to the legal profession對法律界的敵對態度➤antagonism towards/toward對⋯的敵意◇her antagonism towards / toward her mother她對母親的敵意