difference

英[ˈdɪfrəns]美[ˈdɪfrəns]

n.差别，差额，变化，分歧；

复数：differences;

例句

You can't compare them—there is a fundamental difference in kind.你无法对它们进行比较——它们基本上是不同性质的东西。

When the artificial flowers are contrasted with natural ones, you can hardly tell the difference.当人造花和自然花对比时, 你几乎不能辨出真假。

Thank you for coming, James. Unfortunately, I don’t think your presence will make a whit of difference to the outcome of this meeting, as I’m fairly sure our demands won’t be met.詹姆斯，谢谢你能来。但不幸的是，你的出席丝毫不能改变这次会议的结果。我确信我们的要求得不到满足。

In buying a suit, a difference of ten cents in price is negligible.买一套衣服只差一角钱是无所谓的。

The difference between your wages and mine is negligible.你的工资和我的工资差别很小。

There is a negligible difference in meaning between these two words.这两个词之间在意义上差别是极小的。

There is a tremendous difference between them.他们之间有着极大的差别。

I can't perceive any difference between these coins.我看不出这些硬币的区别。

The difference was very striking.差别非常显著。

There is a striking difference between Jane and Mary.简和玛丽之间有显著的差异。

英语六级真题

The increasing differences in child rearing between rich and poor families reflect growing social inequality.

The class differences in child rearing are growing—a symptom of widening inequality with far-reaching consequences.

Some socioeconomic differences in child rearing have shrunk in the past ten years.

Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

In the past decade, even as income inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed.

Extracurricular activities reflect the differences in child rearing in the Pew survey, which was of a nationally representative sample of 1,807 parents.

Addressing differences in the earliest years, it seems, could reduce inequality in the next generation.

There's solid evidence that there are huge differences in the effectiveness of teachers.

There're steps we can take that would make some difference, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel is trying some of them—yet the union is resisting.

Contrary to some stereotypes, most adolescents believe they must be tolerant of differences among individuals ( ' , though they do not always find this easy in the cliquish ( ' , 拉帮结派的) environment of high school).

Researchers at Duke University scrutinized more than 160 published studies and found an absence of strong evidence that any of these approaches can make a big difference.

In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes ( ' , 基因组 ) of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim.

E.B.Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what he understood to be social and cultural differences between different populations of people.

Assumptions about genetic differences between people of different races could be particularly dangerous in a medical setting.

We hope you enjoy the series about how you can make a difference by becoming a social worker.

On this task, they found large differences.

A recent study, conducted by Emory University's Erika Hall, found that Black people are viewed more negatively than African Americans because of a perceived difference in socioeconomic status.

A recent study, conducted by Emory University's Erika Hall, found that " Black " people are viewed more negatively than " African Americans " because of a perceived difference in socioeconomic status.

I know it's the end of high school, but many of my classmates are going on to the same university and we are still required to study hard, so what's the difference?

In the meantime, 70-year-old Corliss Keith, who was in the high protein group in Starr's latest study, says the feels a big difference.

On the less cute and more scary side there is Actroid F, which is so human-like that some patients may not know the difference.

The big difference between "drought-tolerant" plants and these tough plants: metabolism.

This little bit of support can sometimes make a big difference.

This mood switch made no difference to the three-month-olds; but for the nine-month-olds, it was enough to renew their interest and they started looking again in the direction of the face.

This suggests that babies of that age can tell the difference between a happy melody and a sad tune.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

差别;差异;不同之处

The difference between two things is the way in which they are unlike each other.

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N-SING

差（量）；差额

A difference between two quantities is the amount by which one quantity is less than the other.

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N-COUNT

（意见的）分歧，不和

If people have their differences about something, they disagree about it.

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PHRASE

有…影响;起…作用

If something makes a difference or makes a lot of difference, it affects you and helps you in what you are doing. If something makes no difference, it does not have any effect on what you are doing.

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PHRASE

（在数量、价格上）折中，各让一步

If you split the difference with someone, you agree on an amount or price which is halfway between two suggested amounts or prices.

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PHRASE

非常有趣的;与众不同的

If you describe a job or holiday, for example, as a job with a difference or a holiday with a difference, you mean that the job or holiday is very interesting and unusual.

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PHRASE

意见分歧;看法不同

If there is a difference of opinion between two or more people or groups, they disagree about something.

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英汉词典释义

n.

差别, 差异,不同（之处）,变化（之处）

差距, 差额

分歧, 争执,意见分歧,不和

英英词典释义

Noun

1. the quality of being unlike or dissimilar;

2. a variation that deviates from the standard or norm;

3. a disagreement or argument about something important;

4. a significant change;

5. the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend

行业词典

数学： ［有限］差分；又称 :［有限］差分(finite difference )；

法律： 区别；差别；分歧；价差；