reaction
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英英释意
- 1. a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude;
- "he was pleased by the audience's reaction to his performance"
- "John feared his mother's reaction when she saw the broken lamp"
- 2. a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some foregoing stimulus or agent;
- "a bad reaction to the medicine"
- "his responses have slowed with age"
- 3. (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others;
- "there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water"
- 4. an idea evoked by some experience;
- "his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do"
- 5. doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like;
- "his style of painting was a reaction against cubism"
- 6. extreme conservatism in political or social matters;
- "the forces of reaction carried the election"
- 7. (mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body;
- "every action has an equal and opposite reaction"