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Dissimilar Means Dark Skin Hair Fair Alike Find

英语单词 dissimilar
英美音标 英 [dɪ'sɪmɪlə(r)] 美 [dɪ'sɪmɪlər]
中文释义 adj.不同的
英语例句 (1) All mating threaded parts are made of dissimilar,non-galling metals.
中文例句 (1) 所有的螺纹配合件均采用不同的材质以避免互相咬死。
vocabulary简明 If your sister has dark skin and dark hair, and you have fair skin and fair hair, people might say that your looks are dissimilar or not alike.
vocabulary扩展 Inside of dissimilar you find similar which means alike. By now, you've probably figured out that dis at the beginning of a word tells you the word means the opposite of whatever comes after. That rule holds here. Dissimilar is the opposite of similar. You've probably heard that you should not use double negatives. Well with dissimilar, it's okay to say something like, "Art is not dissimilar to music in that it is a creative activity. Here, "not dissimilar" means similar.
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]不一样的;不相同的;不相似的 If one thing is dissimilar to another, or if two things are dissimilar, they are very different from each other.
  [oft ADJ to n]
  • His methods were not dissimilar to those used by Freud...

    他的方法和弗洛伊德的并无二致。

  • It would be difficult to find two men who were more dissimilar...

    很难找到彼此间差异更大的人了。

  • The identical treatment of such dissimilar items is totally illogical.

    对如此不同的东西用一模一样的处理方法是完全不合逻辑的。

dissimilarity
  • One of his main themes is the dissimilarity between parents and children.

    他的主题之一就是父母和孩子的不同之处。

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