resistance
n. 抵抗; 阻力; 抗力; 電阻
Resistance to something such as a change or a new idea is a refusal to accept it.
The US wants big cuts in European agricultural export subsidies, but this is meeting resistance.
美國想大幅度削減歐洲農業出口補貼,但此舉遭到了抵制。
Resistance to an attack consists of fighting back against the people who have attacked you.
The troops are encountering stiff resistance...
軍隊遭遇了頑強抵抗。
Police in riot gear cleared the noisy demonstrators, who offered no resistance.
身穿防暴服的警察驅散了喧鬧的遊行者,沒有遇到抵抗。
The resistance of your body to germs or diseases is its power to remain unharmed or unaffected by them.
This disease is surprisingly difficult to catch as most people have a natural resistance to it.
由於多數人對這種病具有天然免疫力,所以發病率低得出奇。
Wind or air resistance is a force which slows down a moving object or vehicle.
The design of the bicycle has managed to reduce the effects of wind resistance and drag.
這種腳踏車的設計成功地減少了風的阻力和摩擦力。
In electrical engineering or physics, resistance is the ability of a substance or an electrical circuit to stop the flow of an electrical current through it.
...materials that lose all their electrical resistance.
電阻為零的材料
In a country which is occupied by the army of another country, or which has a very harsh and strict government, the resistance is an organized group of people who are involved in illegal activities against the people in power.
They managed to escape after being arrested by the resistance.
他們被抵抗組織抓住後又設法逃脫了。
If you take the line of least resistance in a situation, you do what is easiest, even though you think that it may not be the right thing to do. In American English, you usually talk about the path of least resistance .
They would rather take the line of least resistance than become involved in arguments.
他們傾向採用阻力最小的方案,不願捲入紛爭。
1. the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with;
2. any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
3. a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
4. the military action of resisting the enemy's advance;
5. (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
6. a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
7. the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
8. (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
9. an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
10. group action in opposition to those in power
the line (或 path) of least resistance
阻力最小的辦法
They put up stubborn resistance.
他們進行了頑強的抵抗.
Copper has less resistance to electricity than lead.
銅比鉛的電阻要小.
Where there is oppression there is resistance.
哪裡有壓迫哪裡就有反抗.
Diamonds have extreme resistance to abrasion.
鑽石極抗磨損.
They perceived that the enemy was trying to wear down their resistance.
他們明白敵人是想用消耗的辦法來制服他們的抵抗.