versus

英 ['v??s?s] 美['v?s?s]

近義詞against

CET6TEM4IELTS考研中低頻詞常用詞匯

1、vers- + -us(拉丁語后綴，顯然該詞直接源于拉丁語，沒做任何變動).
2、含義：turned toward or against. => action of one party against another.

versus 對，相比

來自拉丁語versus,轉(zhuǎn)，來自PIE*wer,轉(zhuǎn)，彎，詞源converse,toward。引申詞義轉(zhuǎn)向?qū)Ψ降模鄬Γ啾取?/p>

versus (prep.): mid-15c., in legal case names, denoting action of one party against another, from Latin versus "turned toward or against," from past participle of vertere (frequentative versare) "to turn, turn back, be turned, convert, transform, translate, be changed," from PIE *wert- "to turn, wind," from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (cognates: Old English -weard "toward," originally "turned toward," weorthan "to befall," wyrd "fate, destiny," literally "what befalls one;" Sanskrit vartate "turns round, rolls;" Avestan varet- "to turn;" Old Church Slavonic vr?teti "to turn, roll," Russian vreteno "spindle, distaff;" Lithuanian ver ?iu "to turn;" Greek rhatane "stirrer, ladle;" German werden, Old English weorean "to become" (for sense, compare turn into); Welsh gwerthyd "spindle, distaff;" Old Irish frith "against").

1. The green debate tends to polarise into science-as-saviour versus science-as-devil camps.: 有關(guān)環(huán)保的辯論往往會分化成“科學(xué)是救星”和“科學(xué)是惡魔”兩個(gè)陣營。

3. The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.: 最富緊張刺激的球賽是哈佛隊(duì)對耶魯隊(duì).

4. BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Cord blood transplantation ( CBT ) possesses gr aft - versus - leukemia ( GVL ) effect.: 背景與目的: 研究表明臍血移植 ( cordbloodtransplantation, CBT ) 保留有移植物抗白血病 ( graft鄄versus鄄 leukemia,GVL ) 效應(yīng).

5. Each report starts with a recap of how we did versus our projections.: 每份報(bào)告開頭都扼要回顧了我們的表現(xiàn)和我們的預(yù)期目標(biāo)。