mindmap root((一个八卦迟<br>钝妒忌报复<br>的对手)) opponent implies little more than position on the other side, as in a debate, election, contest, or conflict: ~s of the project cite cost as a factor. antagonist implies sharper, often more personal opposition in a struggle for supremacy: a formidable ~ in the struggle for corporate control. adversary may carry an additional implication of active hostility: two peoples that have been bitter ~ies for centuries. （hostility敌对、恶意，是指公开强烈的恶意open and strong ill will，往往表现出攻击侵略aggression and attack，如a history of hostility between the two nations两国长期敌对） vindictive tends to stress the reaction as inherent in the nature of the individual and is appropriate when no specific motivating grievance exists: not a ~ bone in his body; but sometimes it implies a persistent emotion, based on real or fancied wrongs, that may manifest itself in implacable malevolence or in mere spiteful malice: a ~ person plotting revenge. revengeful, vengeful are more likely to imply the state of one specifically provoked to action and truculently ready to seek or take revenge; both terms may also apply to an agent or weapon by which vengeance can be attained: an insult that provoked a ~ spirit in the target; trained his children to be his ~ agents. envious stresses a coveting of something such as riches or attainments which belongs to another or of something such as success or good luck which has come to another and may imply an urgent, even malicious desire to see the other person dispossessed of what gives satisfaction, OR it may imply no more than a mild coveting without desire to injure: we are all ~ of your new dress. jealous is likely to stress intolerance of a rival for the possession of what one regards as peculiarly one's own possession or due, but sometimes it implies no more than intensely zealous efforts to keep or maintain what one possesses; it often carries a strong implication of distrust, suspicion, enviousness, or sometimes anger: stabbed by a ~ lover. dull suggests a lack of keenness, zest, or pungency: a ~ pain. blunt suggests an inherent lack of sharpness or quickness of feeling or perception: even a person of his ~ sensibility was moved. obtuse implies such bluntness as makes one insensitive in perception, speech, or imagination: too ~ to realize that she had deeply hurt us. curious a neutral term, connotes an active desire to learn or to know: children are ~ about everything. inquisitive suggests impertinent and habitual curiosity and persistent quizzing and peering after information: dreaded the visits of their ~ relatives. prying implies busy meddling and officiousness: ~ neighbors who refuse to mind their own business.