different

英['d?f(?)r(?)nt] 美['d?fr?nt]

副詞:?differently;

different 不同的

來自differ, 不同。

different: different: [14] English acquired different via Old French different from different-, the present participial stem of Latin differre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘a(chǎn)part’ and ferre ‘carry’ (related to English bear). Latin differre had two distinct strands of meaning that sprang from the original literal ‘carry apart, scatter, disperse, separate’: one was ‘put off, delay’, from which English gets defer; the other ‘become or be unlike’, whence English differ [14] and different. The derived indifferent [14] originally meant ‘not differentiating or discriminating’.
=> bear, dilatory
different (adj.): late 14c., from Old French different (14c.), from Latin differentem (nominative differens) "differing, different," present participle of differre "to set apart" (see differ). Colloquial sense of "special" attested by 1912. Related: Differently.

1. Things might have been different if I'd talked a bit more.: 如果當(dāng)時我再多說一點的話，結(jié)果或許會不一樣。

2. Since the birds interbreed they cannot be classed as different species.: 由于這些鳥進行雜交繁殖，不能把它們歸為不同的物種。

3. These expressions are often used interchangeably, but they do have different meanings.: 這些表達方式經(jīng)常相互替代使用，但它們的含義卻有所不同。

4. They found their computers producing different results from exactly the same calculation.: 他們發(fā)現(xiàn)他們的計算機進行完全相同的計算會得出不同的結(jié)果。

5. We felt we were living life on several different planes.: 我們感到大家生活的精神層次各不相同。