Different
['dɪf(ə)r(ə)nt] or ['dɪfrənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) differing from all others; not ordinary; 'advertising that strives continually to be different'; 'this new music is certainly different but I don't really like it' .
(adj.) unlike in nature or quality or form or degree; 'took different approaches to the problem'; 'came to a different conclusion'; 'different parts of the country'; 'on different sides of the issue'; 'this meeting was different from the earlier one' .
(adj.) distinctly separate from the first; 'that's another (or different) issue altogether' .
(adj.) distinct or separate; 'each interviewed different members of the community' .
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解釋/意思:
(a.) Distinct; separate; not the same; other.
(a.) Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different shapes; different degrees of excellence.
校對:莱利亚
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Distinct, separate, not the same.[2]. Unlike, dissimilar, various, diverse, manifold.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Your circle is rather different from ours. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I believe I could make an independent fortune in a few years if I devoted myself exclusively to portraits, so great is the desire for good portraits in the different country towns. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Different benevolent-minded ladies and gentlemen in this neighbourhood and in London. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- There are also characters peculiar to different nations and particular persons, as well as common to mankind. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- I had seven different schemes for getting a glimpse of that telegram, but I could hardly hope to succeed the very first time. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Yet they all had lived and died unconscious of the different fates awaiting their relics. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- A party that tried to answer every conflicting interest would stand still because people were pulling in so many different directions. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Many treatises in different languages have been published on pigeons, and some of them are very important, as being of considerable antiquity. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Whereas, it must be evident to yourself, as it is to me, that you have been this evening very different from what you were before. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The leading idea was different from customary muckraking. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The second book begins with an account of different philosophic al views concerning the origin of matter, and a discussion of the earliest dwellings of man. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- But all was not well, and, as has happened so often before, the politics of father and son were violently different. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- As they passed the different mile-stones, Oliver wondered, more and more, where his companion meant to take him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- When light passes from air into water, or from any transparent substance into another of different density, its direction is changed, and it emerges along an entirely new path (Fig. 64). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Musical instruments maybe divided into three groups according to the different ways in which their tones are produced:-- _First. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I've saved you some thousands of dollars, at different times, by taking care of your hands,--that's all the thanks I get. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The planing machine is organized in various shapes for different uses. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Volta of Pavia, took decided issue with Galvani and maintained that the pretended animal electricity was nothing but electricity developed by the contact of two different metals. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Every thing, that is different is distinguishable: and everything, that is distinguishable, may be separated, according to the maxims above-explained. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Catherine and Lydia had information for them of a different sort. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- The neighbourhood of Brunswick Square is very different from almost all the rest. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Our family; our honourable family, whose honour is of so much account to both of us, in such different ways. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Servants, labourers, and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- That bridge, though of different material, was in its principle of construction similar to the iron tubular bridges at Conway and at the Menai Straits. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- He had it written up for the newspapers, and advertised public demonstrations of its powers, and arranged that Bell should lecture on it in different cities. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Glass thermometers of the above type are the ones most generally used, but there are many different types for special purposes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The explanation of this is, that a string may vibrate in a number of different ways. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I should say so, but that I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The ladies had not been long in the drawing-room, before the other ladies, in their different divisions, arrived. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may prove to be little relation between the different incidents of which I speak. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
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