(1) oppose指经过认真考虑或有重大理由对某人或某事极力反对，用作及物动词。
object表示一般地反对，抱有反感，不赞成；作为不及物动词，常与to sth.或to doing sth.连用，也可接不定式，较多地用于一瞬间突然反对；作为及物动词，意思是“指出……作为反对的理由或依据”，后接that从句。
- We firmly oppose /We are firmly opposed to hegemonism.
我们坚决反对霸权主义。 - Promote materialist dialectics and oppose metaphysics.
提倡唯物辩证法，反对形而上学。 - I don't object to/ I have no objection to doing that.
我不反对做这件事情。 - He objected to us keeping pets.
他反对我们养宠物。 - He objected that the weather was too wet to play outdoors.
他反对说，天气太潮，不能在室外玩耍。 - We opposed the people's war to the war of aggression.
我们以人民战争对付侵略战争。
＊注意：关于oppose，英式英语中常用主动式，而美式英语中则常用be opposed to；这时opposed含有形容词性质。
| { | They opposed the plan. (英式)
They were opposed to the plan. (美式) 他们反对这项计划。 |
(2) be (up) against 的意思也是“反对”，是一般用语。
- Her parents are (up) against her marrying a foreigner.
她父母反对她嫁给一个外国人。
(3) not approve of 与oppose同义，但反对的意味较后者弱,常可与disapprove of 换用。
- He doesn't approve of/disapprove of my entering the university.
他反对我上那所大学。
