Front | contrast |
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Pron | ['kɑːntræst] |
Back | 【contrast】 v. 对比 She contrasted her present life of luxury with the poverty of her childhood. 她将现在富裕生活和穷苦的童年做一对比。 |
Vocab | contrastthe opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared
The verb contrast means to show a difference, like photos that reveal how much weight someone lost by contrasting the "before" and "after" shots. You probably know contrast in its relation to compare. To contrast something is to look for differences among two or more elements, but compare is to do the opposite, to look for similarities. It's easy to tell the difference if you remember that contrast comes from the Latin root contra, and means "against." Contrast is also a noun meaning basically the same thing — you might notice the contrast of a dark tree against a snow-covered hill. All forms of 'contrast' will appear on average once every 143 pages. contrast contrasting contrastive contrasty contrastingly |
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