Dissent

(noun.) a difference of opinion.

(noun.) (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority; 'he expressed his dissent in a contrary opinion'.

(verb.) withhold assent; 'Several Republicans dissented'.

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• I am delighted, Thrasymachus, to see you not only nodding assent and dissent, but making answers which are quite excellent. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Her daughter could not quite agree with her, but her dissent was not heard, and therefore gave no offence. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• I shook my head: it required a degree of courage, excited as he was becoming, even to risk that mute sign of dissent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• If any one dissent from this, he must give a regular proof of these two propositions, viz. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• They were intolerant of questions or dissent, not because they were sure of their faith, but because they were not. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And to the class of opposites belong assent and dissent, desire and avoidance. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The dissenting shoemaker wanted Miss Briggs to send his son to college and make a gentleman of him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It is only clergymen like Mr. Tyke, who want to use Dissenting hymn-books and that low kind of religion, who ever found Bulstrode to their taste. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Still in the Dissenting line, eh? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• My parents had early given me religious impressions, and brought me through my childhood piously in the dissenting way. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• They agreed with me that it looked serious; but they both strongly dissented from the view I took of the treatment. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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