| 单词 | discord |
| 释义 | dis·cord I. 1. a. (1) < must we fall into the jabber and babel of discord while victory is still unattained — Sir Winston Churchill > (2) < discord among the barons of the border country reached the point of daily raids, ambushes, and kidnappings > b. < the glaring discord between the architecture of the two buildings > < the discord between the idealist and materialist philosophies > 2. a. b. c. 3. < the braying of automobile horns and other daily discords of city life > Synonyms: < the meeting broke up in discord > < the discord among the brawling barons > < the controversies arising from this situation are bitter, and the discord is ominously apparent — H.A.Wagner > discord indicates the fact of existent disharmony, perhaps pointless; strife may designate competition in a hectic struggle for victory or supremacy < all must live together in harmony as good neighbors or in strife as bad neighbors — Saturday Review > < as the war drew to its end he, like Lincoln, sought to heal the wounds caused by internecine strife — H.A.Bridgman > conflict indicates existence of opposition or rivalry with desire or impetus to victory or mastery but not necessarily with the surging activity associated with strife < the medieval conflicts between England and France > < the age-old conflict between city and village — A.R.Williams > < the conflict of passion, temper, or appetite with the external duties — T.S.Eliot > < the union and conflict of two very different human impulses, the one urging men towards mysticism, the other urging them towards science — Bertrand Russell > contention may suggest bickering quarrelsome altercation in words; it usually does not apply to physically active strife < contention about the new zoning laws > < contention between free trade and tariff groups > < the contentions and turmoils preceding Kentucky's admission into the Union — E.M.Coulter > dissension is likely to stress the existence of disharmony and noisy truculent antipathy between groups, with or without strife < the party was split by internal dissension on religious, racial, and intellectual questions — American Guide Series: New York > < reports of internal dissension in Venezuela: a “moderate” group in the Venezuelan army threatened to revolt against the Gallegos government — Current Biography > variance may indicate a clash of opinion, temperament, or character that make for strife, discord, or cold hostility < sectarian variances in the town had delayed the erection of a house of worship — American Guide Series: Vermont > < the unwillingness of young men interested in the ministry to accept the required strict orthodoxy at variance with twentieth century viewpoints — Current Biography > II. < several of his disclosures discord strongly with my personal knowledge — E.J.Wayland > |
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