| 词组 | disparate |
| 释义 | disparate Reader's Digest 1983 notes disparate as a useful word meaning "strongly different, differing in real character." Safire 1984 disputes this use, feeling that disparate means "unequal" rather than "markedly dissimilar." It does seem to mean "unequal" in some legal contexts, notably in the phrase disparate treatment, which crops up in employment-discrimination cases. And inequality can easily be seen in uses such as these: • ... election of local government officials from districts of disparate size —American School Board Jour., June 1968 • ... economically disparate groups do not make congenial neighbors —Urban Land Institute finding, in Center Mag., September 1968 • ... enjoying disparate levels of development — Claude A. Buss, Wilson Library Bulletin, November 1968 • The book consists of two rather disparate parts —A. H. Stride, Nature, 15 Feb. 1969 Still, "markedly dissimilar" is the most frequent sense. It is hard to find the notion of inequality in these examples: • ... few areas of study offer as much scope for tantalizing speculation as the disparate fields of astronomy and molecular biology —Britannica Yearbook of Science and the Future, 1969 • Pianists as disparate as Vladimir Horowitz and Fats Waller get equal consideration —Hans Fantel, TV. Y. Times Book Rev., 22 July 1979 • ... romantic encounters with four disparate women —Boston Spectator, October 1966 • ... the disparate interests of heterogeneous faculties —Lewis B. Mayhew, Change, March 1972 • The welding together of such disparate creeds into a coherent work of art is in itself no mean achievement —Envoy, May 1968 Disparate is also used of what is made up of diverse or incongruous elements: • This disparate and uneasy coalition —Maurice R. Berube, Commonweal, 11 Apr. 1969 • At first the cast Visconti has chosen seems quite disparate —Frederic Morton, Harper's, April 1970 • ... a disparate gathering of art that hasn't focused on any one period or style —David L. Shirey, N.Y. Times, 14 July 1971 Disparate is occasionally accompanied by intensifiers (totally and wildly are favorites). Since disparate is already a stronger word than different, some would no doubt find the intensifiers unnecessary. We add here a few examples; you can decide for yourself whether you would use them. • ... a doomed attempt to bind together two totally disparate sections of Asia —James A. Michener, N.Y. Times Mag., 9 Jan. 1972 • They have wildly disparate personalities —Barbara Walters, McCall's, November 1970 • ... students of widely disparate experience and ability —Barbara Bock, Media & Methods, March 1969 • ... look at divorce from totally disparate points of view —Arthur Knight, Saturday Rev., 13 May 1972 |
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