| 单词 | different |
| 释义 | different (dɪfrənt ) 1. adjective A1 If two people or things are different, they are not like each other in one or more ways. In British English, people sometimes say that one thing is different to another. Some people consider this use to be incorrect. People sometimes say that one thing is different than another. This use is often considered incorrect in British English, but it is acceptable in American English. We have totally different views. If he'd attended music school, how might things have been different? London was different from most European capitals. [+ from] My approach is totally different to his. [+ to] We're not really any different than they are. [+ than] ...a style of advertising that's different than the rest of the country. Synonyms: dissimilar, opposed, contrasting, changed differently adverb [ADVERB after verb, ADVERB -ed] B1 Every individual learns differently. One made the point that boys are treated very differently from girls. The skeleton consists of differently shaped bones held together by ligaments. Synonyms: inconsistently, erratically, unevenly, idiosyncratically Synonyms: dissimilarly, otherwise, in another way, in contrary fashion 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1 You use different to indicate that you are talking about two or more separate and distinct things of the same kind. Different countries specialised in different products. The number of calories in different brands of drinks varies enormously. Synonyms: various, some, many, several 3. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] You can describe something as different when it is unusual and not like others of the same kind. This recipe is certainly interesting and different. Quotations: And now for something completely different Monty Python's Flying Circus If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummerWalden Idioms: march to a different drummer [journalism] to act in accordance with beliefs or expectations which are different from those of your colleagues or friends The state-supported school marches to a different drummer, and I will permit it to continue to do so. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers a different kettle of fish something that is completely unlike another thing that you have mentioned Artistic integrity? Who needs it? Money? Now that's a completely different kettle of fish. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers different strokes for different folks said to mean that people are different, and that some individuals or groups have different needs and wants from others The federal government has always been respectful of local customs in local communities, and therefore you had different strokes for different folks. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers sing a different tune to express ideas or opinions which are in complete contrast to the ones which you were expressing a short time ago She declared herself at peak fitness. Just 24 hours later, she was singing a different tune after losing badly in her match against Williams. `I wasn't prepared,' she said. `And I was suffering from jet lag.' if a group of people are singing a different tune, they are all expressing different opinions about something The problem of homelessness is great enough without two Government departments singing different tunes. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: a little different You may imagine that things are a little different with cars. Times, Sunday Times But here's something a little different - the excuse to wear some outrageous bling and compete to be a hip-hop legend. The Sun Playing with a guy for such a long time, you know exactly where you might see something a little different from normal. Times, Sunday Times We both envisaged it going a little different. The Sun Here it's a little different because of all the preparation. The Sun You reach a dead end, you reverse and move in a different direction. The Sun (2012) Would he consider changing his management to take his work in a different direction? Times, Sunday Times (2016) You thought he was running at full pelt and then he would just stop and go in a different direction. Times, Sunday Times (2011) However, there are many different kinds of climbing, and the beginners' courses focus on the supersafe kind. Times, Sunday Times (2009) And Rupert as a marquess might prove to be a completely different kind of person: serious and backward-looking. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE Today a different kind of storm is brewing. Times, Sunday Times (2015) From this moment onwards there would be a different kind of guilt to carry forward -- the regret that they had not found each other sooner. THE ENDLESS GAME It is a different kind of history that shaped the local cuisine. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Could be on a different level to these rivals. The Sun For many people, he has simply accelerated away on to a different level. The Sun Different level of talent in the players, different mindset from the tennis dad. Times, Sunday Times Everything about it was on a different level. Times, Sunday Times It will let us compete at a different level. Times, Sunday Times Which is admittedly festive, but lends a rather different meaning to the whole affair. Times, Sunday Times (2016) It gives connection a whole different meaning. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Pain had different meaning for the two groups. Drug-Free Pain Relief (1987) After the second failed attempt using the standard method, a different method (reverse breach extraction) should have been tried. Times, Sunday Times You are simply using a different method of depositing them. Christianity Today A completely different method was practiced in our family. Christianity Today She talks about a different method for envisaging the monumental distance. Times, Sunday Times It's called convergent evolution: the same solution to the same problem reached by means of a different method. Times, Sunday Times This year the six entrants are all of a different nationality. Times, Sunday Times Then someone from a different nationality, a total stranger, comes along and helps the guy. Christianity Today On the floor where we lived there were eight apartments and each family was a different nationality. The Sun A person with a different nationality lives in each house. Times, Sunday Times Their drivers may have a different nationality, but the motorcycle should represent the country. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Twiddling the dial after such a long pause and from such an extreme position may have a very different outcome than in normal times. Times, Sunday Times If, though, you take into account negative tactics, pettiness, insults, provocation and gamesmanship, it's a different outcome. The Sun The match would have been fairer, with possibly a different outcome, had the referee not so blatantly showed that he shared those sentiments. Times, Sunday Times Seemingly mesmerised, transfixed or hypnotised, they simply carried on doing the same thing over and over again, hoping for a different outcome. Times, Sunday Times Without him, it might have been a different outcome. Times, Sunday Times The club wanted to go down a different route so we've exercised financial prudence, balanced the books with sales and recruited young players. The Sun (2013) We take a different route because it has worked so far. The Sun (2017) We should look at a different route in. Times, Sunday Times (2016) They both cycle to work, but sometimes she will come home via a different route, because why do it one way when you can do it another? Times, Sunday Times (2013) A tad uncharitably, perhaps, his partner quietly mentioned to me that he might have gone a different route. Times, Sunday Times (2014) A very different scenario had seemed likely earlier on. Times, Sunday Times We are in a different scenario than we were 2½ weeks ago. Times, Sunday Times But it's a vastly different scenario now. Times, Sunday Times Now a slightly different scenario. Times, Sunday Times This year it was a different scenario. Times, Sunday Times Hire-purchase agreements are different from normal loans and come with a different set of rules. Times, Sunday Times (2011) That's when a different set of chronometric laws kicked in. Times, Sunday Times (2014) You'll feel at home in new surroundings or with a different set of responsibilities at work. The Sun (2014) The public has a different set of value judgments about who are truly'the best people '. Times, Sunday Times (2009) It demands a wholly different set of emotions and skills to those needed in personal relationships. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Are the squares the same or different shade? The Sun Against the odds it's utterly compelling; the sort of song that sets the world in a different shade. Times, Sunday Times All 15 guest rooms have green rubber flooring but it's a different shade on each floor, getting darker towards the top. Times, Sunday Times They take time to germinate but once they do, they have a different shade and leaf size from normal grass and will really stand out. Times, Sunday Times But when it appeared in the left side of the ring, reaction times were unaffected by whether the spot was a different colour category or merely a different shade. Times, Sunday Times There are 650 different species of spider here - half of them are tiny money spiders, which people believe are lucky. The Sun (2012) They include marsh harriers, honey buzzards, herons and different species of falcon. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Atlantic pollock, a different species, is greyer and more oily, and has a 'fishier' flavour. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Several different species of pliosaur that have been found in the past, with a range of head-to-body length ratios. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Caffeinated and decaffeinated coffees are often derived from different species of beans. Times, Sunday Times (2008) There are three basic models in the range, each tailored to a different style of 'freeride' (or backcountry) skiing. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Slip on a completely different style and get a new hairstyle. The Sun (2012) Yet he is being expected to do it with a group of players mainly brought in by previous managers to play a different style. The Sun (2014) Suggest to your daughter and her fiancé that a different tack may help. The Sun (2006) I'd like to take a different tack. Times, Sunday Times (2017) I try a different tack. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Then one day her career took a different tack. Times, Sunday Times (2008) So it has taken a different tack. Times, Sunday Times (2012) It was a distinctly different tone from the campaign. Times, Sunday Times Why has no union opened its senior posts to outside candidates and rechristened them chief executive and chief operating officer to set a different tone? Times, Sunday Times Consequently, the lender's posture may shift to a different tone. Christianity Today The economic stats take on a decidedly different tone internationally. canada.com In this superbly subtle room, every grey feels varied: different tone, different texture, different aura. Times, Sunday Times The self-same regulator got itself caught up in a knot of jargon of a different variety recently. Times, Sunday Times And that was a different variety of fuss. Times,Sunday Times There doesn't have to be a different variety for each canapé — for 11 canapés, you could do three or four types. Times, Sunday Times The other things it gets right are the competitors, who embody each week a different variety of kitchen imperfection. Times, Sunday Times You could well bag a different variety of game entirely should you wear it out on the town. Times,Sunday Times These and other characters are distinctly different from what you might expect, believable and well-realised. Times, Sunday Times And they'll be surprised beyond words to find not a 20ft houseboat but a sharply styled and distinctly different small saloon. Times, Sunday Times They had markedly different styles of commentating and were distinctly different people, and for a while in the late 1970s, saw each other as rivals. Times, Sunday Times It was a distinctly different tone from the campaign. Times, Sunday Times Those two adjectives had distinctly different dictionary meanings. Times, Sunday Times It promises to be a dramatically different update to the world's biggest sporting game. The Sun In a new series starting today, we get to know young people who live dramatically different lives from ours. Times, Sunday Times But he knows it will be a dramatically different test without his dad in his corner. The Sun During this regulatory hiatus, we have a bifurcated grid with bikes of dramatically different levels of performance. Times, Sunday Times Shock him out of his routine by doing something dramatically different. The Sun Finding an idea that is scalable is an entirely different matter. Times, Sunday Times (2006) A well-planned escorted tour holiday is entirely different. Times, Sunday Times (2010) They could lead to criminal charges that could put the civil case in an entirely different light. Times, Sunday Times (2008) And tigers are from an entirely different continent. Times, Sunday Times (2006) His freakish ability in cycle races indicates there is something fundamentally different about his metabolism, a difference perhaps shared by the supermice. Times, Sunday Times (2007) This is fundamentally different from an inability to honour marriage vows. Times, Sunday Times (2012) There are two established but fundamentally different empirical approaches to parametrize the rate of subcritical fracture in brittle materials. 2017, 'Parametrization in Models of Subcritical Glass Fracture: Activation Offset and Concerted Activation', Frontiers in Materials Leaving aside the narrators' obviously contrasting attitudes to their families, these passages are markedly different in their vitality and interest. The Times Literary Supplement Financial markets are markedly different from this time last year. Houston Chronicle There are many who believe that in ten years' time, the tackle laws will be markedly different. Times, Sunday Times Rail and legal experts have markedly different opinions about the likelihood of his winning. Times, Sunday Times Electoral bias occurs when two (or more) parties that obtain similar levels of voter support nevertheless receive markedly different seat shares. Times, Sunday Times It's a qualitatively different sting than the wounds we got in the circle of condemnation. Christianity Today It might be that they couldn't look on him as being qualitatively different from other writers, just the most successful. Times, Sunday Times The search powers under section 44 were qualitatively different. Times, Sunday Times But this was qualitatively different. Times, Sunday Times And yet this exhibition simply prompted the question of how this experience was qualitatively different from, say, taking a yoga class, or a nap. The Times Literary Supplement They want to serve up something radically different. Times, Sunday Times (2018) Interfaith dialogue is radically different to the concept of interfaith or multifaith worship. Times, Sunday Times (2017) Successful typefaces span radically different typesetting technologies, and often survive the companies that first published them. The Times Literary Supplement (2016) There are reasonable disagreements in political life between people with radically different views of the world. Times, Sunday Times (2013) It proved to be exceedingly difficult for members to forge radically different personal and economic relationships. Sociology (1995) Furthermore, there are significantly different interfacial activity and adsorptive property for each fraction. 2018, 'A Study on Structure and Property of Special Sulfonated Petroleum as a Complicated Anionic Surfactant', Journal of Petroleum Science and Technology Results showed that concentrations of plant nutrients in leaflets collected from different compound leaf positions were not significantly different. 2005, 'Standard sampling method of Longkong leaf for evaluation of plant nutrient status', Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST) All significantly different skull variables were larger for red foxes than corsac foxes. 2018, 'Comparative craniometric measurements of two sympatric species of Vulpes in Ikh Nart Nature Reserve, Mongolia', Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences Tardigrade community composition was significantly different between bryophytes, foliose lichen, fruticose lichen, and sampling heights. 2018, 'Epiphyte type and sampling height impact mesofauna communities in Douglas-fir trees', PeerJ Union time was shorter, although not statistically different (p = 0.208), in cerclage group. 2018, 'Role of percutaneous cerclage wire in the management of subtrochanteric fractures treated with intramedullary nails', Chinese Journal of Traumatology Diamine oxidase and d-lactic acid concentrations of all groups were not statistically different. 2018, 'Effects of delayed feeding, sodium butyrate and glutamine on intestinal permeability in newly-hatched broiler chickens', Journal of Applied Animal Research Specie specific prevalence of fascioliasis between the host species was statistically different. 2019, 'Studies on the prevalence of fascioliasis among ruminant animals in northern Bauchi state, north-eastern Nigeria', Parasite Epidemiology and Control Feed intake, feed conversion and factor of production were not statistically different. 2002, 'Desempenho de Frangos de Corte Alimentados com Dietas à Base de Milho e Farelo de Soja, com ou sem Adição de Enzimas Performance of Broilers Fed Corn Soybean Meal Based Diets, with or without Inclusion of Enzymes', Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia Age and lower uterine segment involvement were not statistically different between the hereditary and nonhereditary groups. 2015, 'Survival outcome in endometrial cancer patients according to hereditary predisposition', Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology It is a close relative of our common hedge sparrow, or dunnock, which used to be called the hedge accentor - but it is strikingly different. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Earthy, floral, leafy, chocolatey - each one is strikingly different in character. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Despite being brought up in strikingly different homes, their intelligence ratings were almost identical. Times, Sunday Times (2011) The nuclear deterrent is substantially different from other weapons. Times, Sunday Times (2010) A more subtle interpretation is that by working in substantially different clinical settings, junior doctors gain insight and experience that would not otherwise be available to them. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The split in responsibilities between different tiers of government is substantially different. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The conflict and the countries involved are substantially different. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Other expert witnesses used the same textbook formula to arrive at substantially different answers. Principles of Corporate Finance (1991) Two people commit the same minor motoring offence but get totally different penalties. Times, Sunday Times (2015) When people are upset they need to try to escape from that by getting absorbed in something totally different, which will give them some intellectual pleasure. Times, Sunday Times (2014) He lived in a totally different world, he wanted to be a computer programmer. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Certainly, being the team expected to win puts a totally different complexion on the mindset. The Sun (2010) But the most important certainty is that the next society and economy will have a totally different social complexion. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER (2001) Fortuitous coincidences bring these characters into narrative contiguity, though they come from vastly different backgrounds. The Times Literary Supplement (2014) The skills required for playing the organ and directing choirs are vastly different and rarely found in one individual. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The situation now is vastly different with colossal sums of money involved and GPs' motives frequently being called into question. Times, Sunday Times (2016) There are two models for the direct harvesting of sunlight -- the photovoltaic cell and the leaf -- and they are vastly different. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet (2007) This means similar schools in different regions get vastly different sums. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Things have a wholly different complexion to this time last year, because at that point the recovery had not taken hold. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The present case was one of wholly different complexion. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Those two famous closing rounds were wholly different in kind. Times, Sunday Times (2013) What voters want is a broader conservatism rather than a wholly different kind. Times, Sunday Times (2013) And it is important to understand that these are two wholly different manners of government. 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