Reaction

(noun.) doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like; 'his style of painting was a reaction against cubism'.

(noun.) a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent; 'a bad reaction to the medicine'; 'his responses have slowed with age'.

(noun.) an idea evoked by some experience; 'his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do'.

(noun.) extreme conservatism in political or social matters; 'the forces of reaction carried the election'.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) (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'.

整理:莎丽

• After which strong avowal Bella underwent reaction, and cried to any extent, with her face on the back of her chair. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• To walk involves a displacement and reaction of the resisting earth, whose thrill is felt wherever there is matter. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The action and reaction thus constantly at work, tend to give accelerating impulse to invention, and are continually enlarging its sphere of operations. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• But there later came a reaction in favor of lighter guns and quick firers. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The other is the ejection of a stream of water at the stern, or on both sides of the boat, so as to produce a forward movement by reaction. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• But when the new element requires especial attention, random reaction is the sole recourse unless abstraction is brought into play. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But she was beginning to feel the strain of the attitude; the reaction was more rapid, and she lapsed to a deeper self-disgust. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• When nitrogen gas is in contact with heated calcium carbide, a reaction takes place which results in the formation of calcium nitride, a compound suitable for enriching the soil. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• But in that intense being lay the strength of reaction. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He is never constant, always this awful, dreadful reaction. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• That reaction may not be as deplorable as it seems. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Sir Isaac Newton in 1680 proposed a steam carriage propelled by the reaction of a jet of steam. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The climax of sensual reaction, once reached in any direction, is reached finally, there is no going on. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• For you can only revolt in pure reaction from her-and to be her opposite is to be her counterpart. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• For Gerald was in reaction against Charity; and yet he was dominated by it, it assumed supremacy in the inner life, and he could not confute it. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The reactions were all varied in various people, but they followed a few great laws, and intrinsically there was no difference. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And then come the reactions. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The tremendously complex nature of the chemical reactions which take place in the lead-acid storage battery also renders it an easy prey to many troublesome diseases. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He is merely selecting the stimuli supplied by the forms of the letters and the motor reactions of oral or written reproduction. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Then it operates to call out mechanical reactions, ability to use the vocal organs to repeat statements, or the hand to write or to do sums. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Characteristic temperature reactions may take place when the object is grasped. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It is a familiar fact that the young of the higher animals, and especially the human young, have to learn to utilize their instinctive reactions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Not the least of the applications of the dynamo is its use in electro-metallurgy for plating metals, and also for promoting chemical reactions. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• These qualitatively different reactions are called presentations (Vorstellungen). 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But these flashes of amusement were but brief reactions from the long disgust of her days. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

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