Dissimilar
[dɪ'sɪmɪlə] or [dɪ'sɪmɪlɚ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) not similar; 'a group of very dissimilar people'; 'a pump not dissimilar to those once found on every farm'; 'their understanding of the world is not so dissimilar from our own'; 'took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem' .
埃塞雷德編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men are as dissimilar as their features.
整理:罗威娜
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Unlike, different, heterogeneous, diverse, various.
埃德加整理
同義詞及反義詞：
[See SIMILAR]
海丝特編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. not similar: unlike in any respect: of different sorts.—ns. Dissimilar′ity Dissimil′itude unlikeness: want of resemblance.—adv. Dissim′ilarly.—ns. Dissimilā′tion the act of rendering dissimilar; Dissim′ile the opposite of a simile a comparison by contrast.
校對:拉里
例句/造句/用法:
- They are utterly dissimilar in all respects. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- There is no apparent relation between effects so dissimilar; yet the steps of progress can be distinctly traced, from the attraction of a feather to the development of the electric telegraph. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- If two dissimilar metals could be decomposed and power at the same time produced they contended that practical work might be done with the force. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- They are called the two fluid batteries, because in place of a single acidulated bath in which the dissimilar metals were before placed, two different liquid solutions were employed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Their very faces are not dissimilar--a pair of human falcons--and dry, direct, decided both. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The medium of exchange upon Mars is not dissimilar from our own except that the coins are oval. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Reflect: is not the dreamer, sleeping or waking, one who likens dissimilar things, who puts the copy in the place of the real object? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Why did you who read this, commit that not dissimilar inconsistency of your own last year, last month, last week? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Dr. Grant and Mrs. Norris were seldom good friends; their acquaintance had begun in dilapidations, and their habits were totally dissimilar. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- They were very dissimilar. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It should be observed that the process of imitation probably never commenced between forms widely dissimilar in colour. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- There never were two people more dissimilar. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- The very dissimilar Norwegian and Swedish peoples were bound together under one king. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
校對:拉里