| 单词 | disparate |
| 释义 | disparate (dɪspərət ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Disparate things are clearly different from each other in quality or type. [formal] Scientists are trying to pull together disparate ideas in astronomy. The nine republics are immensely disparate in size, culture and wealth. Synonyms: different, contrasting, unlike, contrary 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A disparate thing is made up of very different elements. [formal] ...a very disparate nation, with enormous regional differences. ...their disparate coalition of Southern conservatives and liberals. Collocations: disparate backgrounds Despite such disparate backgrounds, all of these banks share something in common - they need to make a splash in order to emerge from obscurity. Times, Sunday Times The event was attended by 4000 guests, including world leaders from disparate backgrounds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Despite their disparate backgrounds they all have one thing in common-a quest for getting value for money. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By giving the characters humorous and disparate backgrounds, he hoped to make an entertaining film. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are no longer a disparate collection of underachievers. Times, Sunday Times It's a strikingly disparate collection. Times, Sunday Times The narrative takes place over four days and charts the interconnecting lives and loves of a disparate collection of characters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The four sub-chapters provide a linear context to what might otherwise read as a disparate collection of short stories. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Of estates and terraces, where disparate cultures and ethnicities and socioeconomic groups rub along, and blend, or don't, but exist cheek-by-jowl all the same. Times, Sunday Times A dizzying array of objects from disparate cultures aims not to show their differences, but to stress their connections and links. Times, Sunday Times The aim was not to show any historical connection but rather to show the similarity of style between two disparate cultures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Such a wide sampling of history and territory covers many disparate cultures and periods. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Are we to take possession of ourselves, striving to weave the disparate elements of our lives into a coherent narrative? The Times Literary Supplement The disparate elements combine or collide in a fast and furious twenty-five-minute trajectory that peaks and improbably peaks again, but not without glimpses of serenity. The Times Literary Supplement All the show's disparate elements link up eventually. Times, Sunday Times So we set to work, combining the seemingly disparate elements and furnishings the family treasured, including heirlooms, fabrics, antiques, photos and old paintings. Times,Sunday Times The magic happens when all these ideas are combined in a garden that still looks like a garden, and not like a showroom full of disparate elements. Times, Sunday Times It provides a handle on the disparate events - and not just the football matches - unfolding across the southernmost nation of the dark continent. Times, Sunday Times Through these disparate events, something was liberated in him. Times, Sunday Times A number of disparate events coalesced. Times, Sunday Times All of the main chronicler accounts carry significant regional biases in how they portray the disparate events. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a skillfully crafted tale, thematic patterning may be arranged so as to emphasize the unifying argument or salient idea which disparate events and disparate frames have in common. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her achievement was to synthesize this work through the framework of two seemingly disparate fields: geology and neurology. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A serial inventor and physicist, he makes a living from royalties generated by inventing new products, often in completely disparate fields. Times, Sunday Times From the point of view of journalists, it represents an overlapping set of competencies drawn from disparate fields. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This seminal algorithm unified these disparate fields for the first time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Like his other books in many disparate fields, it represented significant original scholarship. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It's also about creating community - you've got a disparate group of people here who wouldn't normally mix together. Times, Sunday Times We were a disparate group, selected for our expertise, which we were expected to use on the island. Times,Sunday Times Sceptics questioned how this strategy would work with such a disparate group of people. Times, Sunday Times I remember enormous numbers of people, the buzz of a sense of belonging, even if to rather a disparate group. Times, Sunday Times It was predictable and predicted that imposing a single currency and interest rate on a disparate group of states would create enormous economic stresses. Times, Sunday Times On analysis the complaint was not about the disparate impact created by the application of a common policy or practice. Times, Sunday Times The tribunal accepted, however, that the bonus scheme caused a significant disparate impact. Times, Sunday Times The disparate impact, or particular disadvantage, could be established on the basis of statistical evidence. Times, Sunday Times That compelled them to take a hard look at the examinations to determine whether certifying the results would have had an impermissible disparate impact. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Lawful permanent residents, who by law should not be subjected to any different or additional hindrances, are routinely delayed for processing, creating a disparate impact of any such purchaser. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A group of disparate individuals have become a team of domestiques - and the consequence has been nothing less than mind-bending. Times, Sunday Times Disparate individuals had become more than the sum of their parts. Times, Sunday Times You only have to meet a wide sample of players to see that they are somewhat like any other group of disparate individuals. Times, Sunday Times It focuses on the relationship between two disparate individuals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some bands take pride in reeling off a list of disparate influences. Times, Sunday Times In other hands, such disparate influences could have led to disaster. Times, Sunday Times The songs that resulted from the disparate influences of the band's primary members were visceral and cerebral. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The wildly disparate influences acknowledged in their chosen title are reconciled in their musican angst-driven, sociopolitical stew of bratty teenage vocals, snarling guitars, and a thick-necked rhythm section. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Bring all the disparate parts together under unified control. Times, Sunday Times But that doesn't explain the way the disparate parts of the team started functioning as a unit, nor where this self-belief suddenly came from. Times, Sunday Times Further additions, including running titles, serve to give the disparate parts a kind of unity. The Times Literary Supplement Throughout, the narrator frets over how to weave the disparate parts of her life into a coherent narrative. The Times Literary Supplement This enables them to link disparate parts, central to creativity and problem solving. Times, Sunday Times The nation's best-loved siblings had hugely disparate personalities and for years there appeared to be little love lost between them. Times,Sunday Times It has a way of working in and through disparate personalities, theologies, and indigestion. Christianity Today He's fascinated by the complexities of bringing together a group of disparate personalities to form a winning unit. Times, Sunday Times The film follows the usual trajectory for the genre: initially their disparate personalities threaten to permanently wreck one another's lives, but soon they learn a few valuable lessons. Times, Sunday Times But, with such a disparate set of fixtures, how do you work out who has come out on top? Times, Sunday Times Efforts to alleviate poverty use a disparate set of methods, such as advocacy, education, social work, legislation, direct service or charity, and community organizing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The layered policy model proposes a regulatory system that classifies technologies based on their common layered characteristics instead of regulating each communication technology with a disparate set of rules. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That has been evident with the disparate sources of funding to rebel groups, with certain factions benefitting from money and arms from outside backers. Times, Sunday Times It deftly weaves disparate sources, from memoirs to newspaper advertisements. Times, Sunday Times Can snippets of information from disparate sources be pooled to constitute inside information? Times, Sunday Times Web-based tele-epidemiological services are able to aggregate information from several disparate sources to provide information on disease surveillance and potential disease outbreaks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The central ethos of the project has been to catalyze the open exchange of all information from disparate sources for the benefit of the maximum number of people. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The basic premise, however, remains the same: gather up a handful of dancers adept at disparate styles and let them strut their stuff. Times, Sunday Times It's the latest dilemma of the modern marriage: what to do when disparate styles collide. Globe and Mail However, early competition saw varying levels of success among disparate styles. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Heath added, the themes are predictably absurd... yet mildly comical given the inclusion of such disparate styles stationed side by side. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In recent years the term emo has been applied by critics and journalists to a variety of artists, including multiplatinum acts and groups with disparate styles and sounds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a sector that has grown through acquisitions and mergers, the survivors have been left with a legacy of disparate systems, applications and infrastructure. Times, Sunday Times Extra work must also be done to maintain multiple disparate systems, instead of one big one. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many insurers still struggle to manage a complex web of legacy silos, disparate systems, redundant functionality, excess capacity and inconsistent service levels. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The disparate systems containing the original data are frequently managed and operated by different employees. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It also encouraged his tendency to attempt a synthesis between tonality and atonality, to connect previously disparate systems of musical thought. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The finale brings the entire clan together for a gathering - an over-neat tying together of the disparate threads. The Times Literary Supplement The thirteen episodes were, however, loosely connected in a series-long story arc which brought their disparate threads together in the series finale. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The novel seems to be a collection of short stories until, in a brilliant denouement, disparate threads are brought together to reveal the underlying thematic structures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This merging of the two disparate threads of science fiction in the 1980s has produced an extrapolational literature in contrast to those technological stories told in the present. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In that context, there was no disparate treatment of the employees involved. Times, Sunday Times Subsequent legislation has also banned forms of disparate treatment which were previously used to skirt this stipulation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Disparate impact contrasts with disparate treatment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Still, at least the council's disparate views will, in theory, be distilled via a 15-strong senate - the third tier. Times, Sunday Times Those living in the city were careful to respect disparate views and to work together. Times, Sunday Times They point down the length of the room and the combined image shows two widely disparate views. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her achievement was to synthesize this work through the framework of two seemingly disparate fields: geology and neurology. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It tells five seemingly disparate and not particularly involving tales that are thematically linked by acts of financial mismanagement. Times, Sunday Times The two computer calculations match, suggesting that the two seemingly disparate worlds could be two representations of the same thing. Times, Sunday Times Seemingly disparate ingredients - haute cuisine, creative fulfilment, rodents - come together in a symphony of brilliantly realised action sequences, comic set-pieces and genuine pathos. Times, Sunday Times He found surprising parallels between two seemingly disparate worlds. The Sun How can one ministry serve such a widely disparate flock? Christianity Today Fortunately for folk who don't feel sure of their own skills, designers are launching collections with widely disparate (but harmonious) elements built in. Times, Sunday Times Some areas pay out hundreds of pounds more than others per case in what the department described as 'widely disparate' pricing. Times, Sunday Times Traditionally, agencies could not exchange information because they operated widely disparate hardware that was incompatible. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The term has widely disparate and varying geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And yet by lunchtime yesterday the grandad cardi had materialised in three otherwise wildly disparate shows. Times, Sunday Times This leads to materials on the same topic being filed in wildly disparate locations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She has since choreographed and co-created dozens of works for the company, ranging from pure dance pieces, to adaptations of plays and literature, to original works combining wildly disparate materials. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The wildly disparate influences acknowledged in their chosen title are reconciled in their musican angst-driven, sociopolitical stew of bratty teenage vocals, snarling guitars, and a thick-necked rhythm section. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A kind of slow-motion farce that ill-advisedly attempts to mingle wildly disparate realities and acting styles, it might have worked had its various plot strands been ingeniously interwoven. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 迥然不同的 Japanese: 本質的に異なる |
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