Variance
['veərɪəns] or ['vɛrɪəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation); 'a zoning variance'.
(noun.) the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value.
詹妮校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.
(n.) Difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.
(n.) A disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree, -- as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof.
弗洛西錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Disagreement, difference, discord, dissension, jarring.[2]. (Law.) Variation, want of conformity (as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof).
芭芭拉校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Difference, disagreement, discord, estrangement, antagonism, strife, hostility,discrepancy
ANT:Unity, reconciliation, harmony, agreement, pacification, peace, accommodation,consent
阿纳托尔校對
解釋/意思:
n. state of being varied: an alteration: a change of condition: (law) a discrepancy: difference that arises from or produces dispute.—n. Vā′riant a different form of the same original word: a different reading e.g. in a manuscript.—adj. diverse variable inconstant.—At variance in disagreement.
伊莎贝拉錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- It is a point difficult to fix where the features and countenance are so much at variance as in your case. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I lament afresh the cruel necessity which sets our interests at variance, and opposes us to each other. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The ideal is not easily reduced to the conditions of actual life, and may often be at variance with them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- She and his father had been at variance from his earliest remembrance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It will set you and my uncle at variance, and bring Sir Percival here again with fresh causes of complaint-- So much the better! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I had never in the whole of my previous experience found my duty and my inclination so painfully and so unaccountably at variance as I found them now. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Nor did he recognize that in the dialectical process are included two or more methods of investigation which are at variance with each other. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Adeimantus further argues that the ideal is wholly at variance with facts; for experience proves philosophers to be either useless or rogues. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- However, though Meyler and I were eternally at variance when together, yet we were ever miserable and jealous whilst separated. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Where preconceived theory was at variance with observed facts, the former must of course give way. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- But we cannot suit; we are ever at variance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Well, and is not this one quality, to mention no others, greatly at variance with present notions of him? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The ideas of humor among the green men of Mars are widely at variance with our conceptions of incitants to merriment. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
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