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.
雙語例句
1. Things might have been different if I'd talked a bit more.
如果當(dāng)時(shí)我再多說一點(diǎn)的話，結(jié)果或許會(huì)不一樣。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Since the birds interbreed they cannot be classed as different species.
由于這些鳥進(jìn)行雜交繁殖，不能把它們歸為不同的物種。
來自柯林斯例句
3. These expressions are often used interchangeably, but they do have different meanings.
這些表達(dá)方式經(jīng)常相互替代使用，但它們的含義卻有所不同。
來自柯林斯例句
4. They found their computers producing different results from exactly the same calculation.