| 单词 | adversative |
| 例句 | Virginia had argued that its “adversative” method of educating young men to be citizen-soldiers through a physically challenging curriculum was unsuited for young women. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court’s feminist icon, is dead at 87 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z We are made to sympathize with his terrible anguish, as the logic of his remorse-throbbing conscience leads him to the bitter adversative: "But 'tis too late—all hope is past." Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Hence it only remains to ascribe the judgment to him as the causa principalis.—If the three angels were equals, it would be impossible to explain the adversative clause in chap. xviii. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 The common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are coördinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative. English: Composition and Literature Without the adversative, the colon is to be preferred: "Prosperity showeth vice: adversity, virtue." The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. He is not their landlord, nor are they his tenants; and so far from their interests being in any way reciprocal, they are actually adversative. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Now, nothing, on the other hand, could be more adversative to this, than the conduct, temper, and principles of his brother and sister. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One And if in volunteering him directions how to proceed, she had any purpose adversative to his, her note was without meaning. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One They accordingly emphasize the adversative idea, and are properly Subordinate Adversative Clauses. New Latin Grammar The adversative particle refers to the two first lines. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies But the conjunction is often omitted in copulative and adversative clauses, as in Sec. An English Grammar The word especially is used for a term of distinction, even in those places where the adversative but is not joined to it, as in Tit. i. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London But is termed the adversative coördinate conjunction because it usually introduces something adverse to what has already been said. Composition-Rhetoric "Or" here is not the adversative conjunction but an entirely different word, an archaic variant of "ere," meaning "before." Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems The adversative sentence faces, so to speak, half way about on but. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition They are sometimes adversative; sometimes they are simply cumulative. Study of the King James Bible The difficulty of preserving the effect of the Greek is increased by the want of adversative and inferential particles in English, and by the nice sense of tautology which characterizes all modern languages. Charmides Other words of an adversative nature are yet, however, nevertheless, only, notwithstanding, and still. Composition-Rhetoric |
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