Inconsistency
[ɪnkən'sɪst(ə)nsɪ] or [,ɪnkən'sɪstənsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts.
埃尔伯特編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility.
(n.) Absurdity in argument ore narration; incoherence or irreconcilability in the parts of a statement, argument, or narration; that which is inconsistent.
(n.) Want of stability or uniformity; unsteadiness; changeableness; variableness.
編輯:罗伊
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Incongruity, incompatibility, unsuitableness, incoherence.[2]. Contrariety, contradiction.
手打:米格尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Has there been any inconsistency on his side to create alarm? 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- The inconsistency and recklessness of Traddles were not to be exceeded by any real politician. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- 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.
- But there is no inconsistency--ha--not the least, in my feeling hurt, and yet complaining principally for your sake, Amy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- She felt its inconsistency; but Mr. Knightley was so obliging as to put up with it, and seek no farther explanation. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Reader, if in the course of this work, you find that my opinion of Dr. John undergoes modification, excuse the seeming inconsistency. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- From these circumstances, I have thought there was some inconsistency in our common mode of teaching languages. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- And here we may be charged with inconsistency in making the proposal at all. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And what do you suppose, you conceited female, said Mr. Cruncher, with unconscious inconsistency, that the worth of _your_ prayers may be? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Well, I am convinced that there is a vast deal of inconsistency in almost every human character. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Isocrates, in what is called his discourse against the sophists, reproaches the teachers of his own times with inconsistency. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Do not fancy, reader, that there was any inconsistency in the priest's presence at this fête. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Well, my insane inconsistency had its reward. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- There is no inconsistency in saying that in schools there is usually both too much and too little information supplied by others. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But how could I, a poor dazed village lad, avoid that wonderful inconsistency into which the best and wisest of men fall every day? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- If the same scholastic method is in force there, all that would be needed to crush socialism is to show its dogmatic inconsistencies. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It is full of inconsistencies, and though borrowed from Plato, shows but a superficial acquaintance with his writings. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It is necessary to keep these inconsistencies of John's character in view, that the reader may understand his conduct during the present evening. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- This must be one of Nature's inconsistencies. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, _do_ divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Inconsistencies, answered Imlac, cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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