Inequality
[ɪnɪ'kwɒlɪtɪ] or [,ɪnɪ'kwɑləti]
解释:
(n.) The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity; as, an inequality in size, stature, numbers, power, distances, motions, rank, property, etc.
(n.) Unevenness; want of levelness; the alternate rising and falling of a surface; as, the inequalities of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab, etc.
(n.) Variableness; changeableness; inconstancy; lack of smoothness or equability; deviation; unsteadiness, as of the weather, feelings, etc.
(n.) Disproportion to any office or purpose; inadequacy; competency; as, the inequality of terrestrial things to the wants of a rational soul.
(n.) An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality (< or >) between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1.
(n.) An irregularity, or a deviation, in the motion of a planet or satellite from its uniform mean motion; the amount of such deviation.
克劳斯编辑
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Disparity, difference, diversity.[2]. Unevenness.
整理:史黛丝
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Disparity, disproportion, unevenness, inadequacy, dissimilarity, imparity
ANT:Equality, parity, coextension, adequacy, similarity, level, balance, identity
黛娜编辑
解释:
n. want of equality: difference: inadequacy: incompetency: unevenness: dissimilarity.
录入:温德尔
例句:
- If she rose a trimmed, artificial mound, without inequality, what vantage would she offer the foot? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- In a light tax, a considerable degree of inequality may be supported; in a heavy one, it is altogether intolerable. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The inequality of Birth was nothing to it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Wherever there is a great property, there is great inequality. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The inequality of the contest adds greatly to the humour of the scene. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes, which cannot endure apart from religion. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Excepting inequality of fortune, and perhaps a little disparity of age, I can see nothing unsuitable. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- But spiritually, there is pure difference and neither equality nor inequality counts. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- And if Moore _is_ a gentleman, you _can_ be only a lady; therefore---- Therefore there would be no inequality in our union. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- In the observation or neglect of this maxim, consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- But the inequality with which it might fall upon the inhabitants of different houses, would arise, not only from this, but from another cause. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- He postponed looking at Mr Blandois again until this accidental inequality was removed by their having entered the late Mr Clennam's room. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The minute you begin to compare, one man is seen to be far better than another, all the inequality you can imagine is there by nature. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- This inequality is likely to be greatest in a country of which the government is, in some respects, subordinate and dependant upon that of some other. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble, because we had no future. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The latter, in each case, has in its circuit a resistance, R, to compensate for the resistance of the main line, so that there shall be no inequalities in the circuits. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Inequalities arising from the nature of the employments themselves. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Add to this that the nomadic life prevents any great class inequalities or any extensive development of slavery. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But the policy of Europe, by not leaving things at perfect liberty, occasions other inequalities of much greater importance. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes, until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Whatever inequalities, therefore, there might be in the original assessment, gave little disturbance. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The government neither gains nor loses by the additional tax, which is applied altogether to remedy the inequalities arising from the old assessment. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
校对:特伦斯