1N-COUNT 敌人;仇敌 If someone is your enemy, they hate you or want to harm you. 敌人;仇敌
2N-COUNT 反对者 If someone is your enemy, they are opposed to you and to what you think or do. 反对者
The Government's political enemies were quick to pick up on this series of disasters.
政府的政敌迅速借这一系列灾难向政府发难。
3N-SING-COLL [with singular or plural verb] [NOUN n]敌军;敌国The enemy is an army or other force that is opposed to you in a war, or a country with which your country is at war. 敌军;敌国
The enemy were pursued for two miles.
敌军被追击了两英里。
He searched the skies for enemy bombers.
他在空中搜寻敌军轰炸机。
4N-COUNT [usually singular]大敌;危害 If one thing is the enemy of another thing, the second thing cannot happen or succeed because of the first thing. 大敌;危害 [formal]
Reform, as we know, is the enemy of revolution. [+ of]
正如我们所知,改革是革命的大敌。
Quotations
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakesAntisthenes
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten youEric HofferThe Passionate State of Mind
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemiesOscar WildeLady Windermere's Fan
A very great man once said you should love your enemies, and that's not a bad piece of advice. We can love them, but, by God, that doesn't mean we're not going to fight themNorman Schwarzkopf
The enemy advances, we retreat. The enemy camps, we harass. The enemy tires, we attack. The enemy retreats, we pursueMao Zedongslogan for his troops
We have met the enemy and he is usWalt KellyPogo
Yet is every man his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executionerThomas BrowneReligio Medici
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilityHenry Wadsworth LongfellowDriftwood