| 词组 | unlike |
| 释义 | unlike The use of unlike as a conjunction is less common than the conjunctive use of like and has drawn less criticism. The conjunctive unlike almost always introduces a prepositional phrase. Its meaning is "not as" or "as is not the case": • Unlike in the gasoline engine, fuel does not enter the cylinder with air on the intake stroke —Automotive Fundamentals, ed. Irving Frazee & Earl L. Bedell, 1949 • Unlike in Europe, it has invariably taken a crisis to stir us to action in Asia —Robert Shaplen, The Reporter, 16 Feb. 1954 • Well, I am glad to note that in Mr. Owens's book, unlike in Mr. Mehegan's, graceless is still a pejorative —Simon 1980 • Unlike with office buildings there's no need for a lot of ductwork in hotels —Gene Dallaire, Civil Engineering, January 1983 Such usage may be criticized, but similar use of like ("Like in the gasoline engine, fuel enters the cylinder....") is probably more apt to be singled out as a mistake because as is established—and preferred by many—as an alternative to like in such contexts. There is no negative form of as to substitute for unlike; it can only be replaced by a phrase. Sometimes the preposition following the conjunctive unlike is inadvertently dropped, with results like the following: • ... unlike most boats the rounded end is the front —W. E. Swinton, The Corridor of Life, 1948 • So many fine men were outside the charmed circle that, unlike most colleges, there was no disgrace in not being a "club man" —John Reed, New Republic, 22 Nov. 1954 Such constructions, sometimes known as false comparisons, are best avoided. See also false comparison; like, as, as if 1. |
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