2012_03_11 antipode 對極 noun A direct or exact opposite.直接或正好相反。

Word of the Day for Sunday, March 11, 2012
antipode \AN-ti-pohd\, noun:
A direct or exact opposite.
It seemed that this enthusiast was just as cautious, just as much alive to judgments in other minds as if he had been that antipode of all enthusiasm called "a man of the world."
 -- George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
I look for the furthest spot on earth away from Lancaster — Lancaster's antipode— the middle of the Indian Ocean.
 -- Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
Here we are, thrust to the opposite and absurd antipode of what we think is good. And tomorrow we'll be out of bed at three o'clock in the pitch-black morning.
 -- Tim O'Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Antipode is actually a clipping, or back-formation, of the word Greek word antipodes. It lost its s in the mid-1500s. The original word literally meant "opposite feet," as in "the place on the exact opposite point on the globe."
對極\安鈦pohd\，名詞：

直接或正好相反。

看來，這愛好者一樣謹慎，同樣多的活在其他的頭腦來判斷，如果他一直呼籲所有熱情的對極“的世界男子。”
- 喬治·艾略特，丹尼爾Deronda

我期待為地球上的最遠點距離蘭卡斯特 - 蘭開斯特的對極了印度洋中。
- 道格拉斯Coupland，洗髮水行星

我們在這裡，推到對面的和荒謬的對極了我們認為是好的。和明天，我們會下床在漆黑的早晨三點鐘。
- 蒂姆·奧布萊恩，如果我死在戰鬥區，盒給我，船上將我首頁

對極實際上是這個詞的希臘字映，裁剪，或背面形成。在16世紀中期，它失去了其S。原詞的字面意思“對面的腳”，在“地球上的確切點對面的地方。”

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