early 15c., "disagreement," from Middle French dissonance and directly from Late Latin dissonantia, from Latin dissonantem (see dissonant). Figurative use dates from 1875.
雙語例句
1. Dissonance among the three partners doomed the project.
三個股東間的不調(diào)和注定了那計劃的失敗.
來自辭典例句
2. Cognitive dissonance is also applied to a perceived incongruity between a person's attitudes and his behaviour.
認識分歧也用于指一個人的態(tài)度和他的行為之間可以看得出來的不一致.
來自辭典例句
3. The concerts were more enjoyable without all the horrid modern dissonance which nobody really understood.
音樂會里已經(jīng)沒有那些叫人頭痛誰都聽不懂的現(xiàn)代派不諧和音,所以更好聽了.
來自辭典例句
4. In acoustics he studied the propagation of sound and musical consonance and dissonance.
在聲學(xué)中,他研究了聲的傳播和音樂的和諧與不和諧.
來自辭典例句
5. The resolution of one dissonance is often the preparation for another dissonance.