countering的中文翻译是什么意思

N-COUNT(商店或酒吧的)柜台

In a place such as a shop or café a counter is a long narrow table or flat surface at which customers are served.

• ...those fellows we see working behind the counter at our local video rental store.

  我们见到在我们当地录像带出租店里做店员的那些人

• ...the cosmetics counter...

  化妆品柜台

VERB抵制;抵消

If you do something to counter a particular action or process, you do something which has an opposite effect to it or makes it less effective.

• The leadership discussed a plan of economic measures to counter the effects of such a blockade...

  领导层讨论了计划采取的一揽子经济措施，以减轻这一封锁带来的影响。

• Congestion could be countered by persuading more drivers to get on their bikes...

  通过劝说更多的驾车者改骑自行车可以缓解交通拥堵。

N-SING（…的）对立面;（与…）相对的事物

Something that is a counter to something else has an opposite effect to it or makes it less effective.

• ...NATO's traditional role as a counter to the military might of the Warsaw pact.

  北约作为与华沙公约军事力量相抗衡的传统角色

VERB反驳;驳斥

If you counter something that someone has said, you say something which shows that you disagree with them or which proves that they are wrong.

• Both of them had to counter fierce criticism...

  他们两个人都不得不对尖锐的批评进行反击。

• The union countered with letters rebutting the company's claims...

  工会写信驳回了公司的要求。

N-COUNT(机械或电子)计数器，计算器

A counter is a mechanical or electronic device which keeps a count of something and displays the total.

• ...an answerphone with an LED display call counter.

  带发光二极管来电显示屏的电话答录机

N-COUNT(棋盘游戏的)筹码

A counter is a small, flat, round object used in board games.

PHRASE(买药)不用处方地

If a medicine can be bought over the counter, you do not need a prescription to buy it.

• Are you taking any other medicines whether on prescription or bought over the counter?

  你在服用其他什么处方药或非处方药吗？

• ...basic over-the-counter remedies.

  基本的非处方药物

PHRASE(股票)场外交易的，不通过交易所买卖的

Over-the-counter shares are bought and sold directly rather than on a stock exchange.

PHRASE与…相对;与…冲突

If one thing runs counter to another, or if one thing is counter to another, the first thing is the opposite of the second thing or conflicts with it.

• Much of the plan runs counter to European agriculture and environmental policy...

  该计划的很多内容与欧洲农业及环境方面的政策相冲突。

• The finding ran counter to all expectations.

  该发现出乎所有人的预料。

PHRASE秘密地，暗地里，非法地(销售商品)

If someone buys or sells goods under the counter, they buy or sell them secretly and illegally.

• The smugglers allegedly sold the gold under the counter, cheating the VAT man out of £5 million.

  据说走私者暗地销售黄金，偷逃增值税达500万英镑。